The 21st Winter Words series celebrates some of America’s leading authors, including Pulitzer Prize winners, New York Times best-sellers and the U.S. Poet Laureate. From a coming-of-age surf memoir to a new novel on the immigrant experience, their work represents distinctive voices and storytelling at its finest.
William Finnegan
Pulitzer Prize Winner // New Yorker Staff Writer
William Finnegan has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987. He has reported from South Africa, Mozambique, Somalia, Sudan, Mexico, Central America, South America, Spain, Britain, Australia, Madagascar, Ukraine, Moldova, the Gulf States and the Balkans, as well as from many places in the United States. He has written primarily about politics, war, poverty, race, U.S. foreign policy, organized crime, globalization and surfing. He is the author of five books. His work has won many awards, including two Overseas Press Club awards and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography for his best-selling memoir, “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.” He lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter.
Winter Words
January 9 Alice McDermott
January 23 Tracy K. Smith
February 20 Christina Baker Kine
April 3 Luis Alberto Urrea
*A signing will follow each discussion
*Explore Booksellers will have books for purchase
