New York Times editorial board member Verlyn Klinkenborg.
Gustavus Adolphus College will welcome New York Times editorial board member Verlyn Klinkenborg to campus on Tuesday, Oct. 9. Klinkenborg will deliver a lecture titled, “The De-Democratization of the American Landscape,” at 7 p.m. in room 103 of F.W. Olin Hall. The lecture is sponsored in part by the Sponberg Chair in Ethics and will be free and open to the public.
Klinkenborg joined the Times‘ editorial board — one of the most influential factions in American journalism — in 1997. He is the author of several books, including Making Hay (2003) and The Last Fine Time (2004).
His third book, The Rural Life (2004), is a selection of columns that originally appeared on the New York Times editorial page under the heading “A Rural Life.” The columns document in detail the daily challenges of life in the country, and on a farm in particular.
His work has appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, National Geographic, The New Republic, Smithsonian, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine. He has taught literature and creative writing at Fordham and Harvard University and is a recipient of the 1991 Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
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