Hes described as one of the most controversial and compelling voices in journalism. Author and journalist Christopher Hitchens is coming to West Michigan, hosted by Grand Valley State Universitys Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies.
Christopher Hitchens is one of the finest polemicists in the United States today, said Gleaves Whitney, director of the Hauenstein Center. He is tough minded and, given his leftist background, has developed a surprising view of the Iraq War and President Bush.
Hitchens will speak October 3, at 7:30 p.m., at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum Auditorium in downtown Grand Rapids.
Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and he writes a monthly column for The Atlantic. His work regularly appears in The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Harpers, Slate and the New York Review of Books.
Hitchens began his career as a staff writer for the New Statesman and then worked for the Evening Standard, the Daily Express, and for 20 years wrote a weekly column for The Nation. He has held visiting academic appointments at the New School for Social Research, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California, Berkeley.
For more information, visit www.allpresidents.org or call the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at (616) 331-2770.
