Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist Visits Campus

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lorraine Adams read from her first novel, Harbor, on Monday in Cohen Lounge as part of the English Department's Visiting Writers series.

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, recognized by The New York Times and The Washington Post as a notable book and Entertainment Weekly's Number One Fiction Book of the Year, Harbor is an intimate portrait of a group of young Arab Muslims living in the United States, and the story of one man's journey into--and out of--violence.

Adams was educated at Princeton University and was a graduate fellow at Columbia University, where she received a master's degree in literature. A staff writer for The Washington Post for 11 years, she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for an investigative report with Dan Malone of the "Dallas Morning News" for reporting that charged Texas police with extensive misconduct and abuses of power. She lives in Washington, D.C., and is at work on her second novel.