WHO:

Author Richard Rodriguez is one of the most prominent Hispanic intellectuals in America. He has written three memoirs, countless essays in newspapers and magazines across the U.S. and Europe, and for nearly 20 years, he has appeared on The NewsHour on PBS. Over the years, he has written about a variety of subjects, from the AIDS epidemic, faith, and the death of America's newspapers to the meaning of burritos and body-building. Since September 11th, he has been focused on religious violence. Rodriguez is the 1993 recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Medal. He is currently writing two books, one concerned with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and the desert ecology that shaped them and the other is a book on beauty.

Paul Elie, a senior editor with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is the author of “The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage” (2003), a group portrait of Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day.

WHAT:

A Literary Conversation with Richard Rodriguez & Paul Elie

Author and editor Paul Elie will host a literary conversation with Richard Rodriguez as part of Georgetown University’s Faith and Culture Series, a series of discussions with contemporary authors on how faith and culture intersect in their works.

WHEN:

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.

WHERE:

Riggs Library (3rd Floor, Healy Hall)
Georgetown University
37th & O Streets, NW
Washington, D.C. 20057

SPONSORS:

Georgetown University Office of the President

COVERAGE:

Media interested in attending must RSVP to Andy Pino at 202-687-4328 or pinoa@georgetown.edu. Press will need to present valid credentials on campus.