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Author to Speak at Columbia on the Life of Pulitzer Lecture Marks Opening of Exhibition, Joseph Pulitzer and The World

NEW YORK, March 29, 2010 –

Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library will host a talk by author James McGrath Morris on the life of Joseph Pulitzer. The event will take place on Wednesday, April 7 at 6:00 pm in the Lecture Hall of Columbia’s Journalism Building, 2950 Broadway.


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The lecture celebrates the opening of an immersive exhibition “Joseph Pulitzer and The World,” scheduled to run through the end of July in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. On display will be letters, documents, ledgers, newspapers, photographs, and realia, as well as material documenting Pulitzer’s role in the founding of Columbia’s School of Journalism and the creation of the Pulitzer Prizes. This will be the first time the Joseph Pulitzer Papers and The World Papers have been on display.

Also on exhibit will be selections from the Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism Archives, held by RBML. Prize winners in a variety of categories beginning in 1917, including public service, cartoons, photography, biography, poetry, fiction, drama, and music will be on display.

James McGrath Morris is the author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power (HarperCollins, 2010) His previous book, The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism, was selected as a Washington Post Best Book of the Year for 2004. He has written for The Washington Post, The New York Observer, The Progressive, Civilization, and The Wilson Quarterly.

A reception and book signing will immediately follow the lecture in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Butler Library, 6th Floor, East). For more information regarding this event or to attend, please respond to cul-events@columbia.edu. To view a listing of events, visit: http://alumni-friends.library.columbia.edu

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library owns over 500,000 rare books in some 20 book collections and almost 28 million manuscripts in nearly 3,000 separate manuscript collections. It is particularly strong in English and American literature and history, classical authors, children‘s literature, education, mathematics and astronomy, economics and banking, photography, the history of printing, New York City politics, librarianship, and the performing arts. Individual collections are as eclectic as they are extensive. For more information, please see: http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/rbml.html

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services is one of the top five academic research library systems in North America. The collections include over 10 million volumes, over 100,000 journals and serials, as well as extensive electronic resources, manuscripts, rare books, microforms, maps, graphic and audio-visual materials. The services and collections are organized into 22 libraries and various academic technology centers. The Libraries employs more than 550 professional and support staff. The website of the Libraries is the gateway to its services and resources: http://library.columbia.edu

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