When   Monday, February 16, 2009   Time   5:15 PM - 6:15 PM  
Where   Hagstrum Room 211-University Hall  
Audience   - Public
Contact   Stacy Oliver   847-467-4099  
Group   Center for the Writing Arts
More Info   http://www.northwestern.edu/writing-arts/index.html

Alex Kotlowitz is the Winter Quarter 2009 Visiting Writer in Residence for the Center for the Writing Arts, teaching the Art of Nonfiction: Telling Stories. Alex Kotlowitz is the award-winning author of There Are No Children Here , The Other Side of the River , and Never a City So Real . Contributor to The New York Times Magazine and public radio's This American Life. Alex Kotlowitz is renowned for his narratives of particular individuals whose concrete life experiences illuminate broad aspects of our nation's social and political landscape.

Q&A will follow with a book-signing.