Jane Mayer, 32nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-6-2009
Location
Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center
Author/Artist Bio
Jane Mayer joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1995. She writes about politics for the magazine, and has been covering the war on terror. Recent subjects include Alberto Mora and the Pentagon’s secret torture policy, how the United States out-sources torture, the prison at Guantánamo Bay, and the legality of C.I.A. interrogations. She has also written about George W. Bush, the bin Laden family, and Sarah Palin. Mayer was the 2008 winner of the John Chancellor Award for Journalistic Excellence. She was also a 2009 finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Mayer is the author of the best-selling 2008 book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War in Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, which was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times, The Economist Magazine, Salon, Slate and Bloomberg.
Description
Mayer presented on Monday, October 6, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Recommended Citation
Mayer, Jane, "Jane Mayer, 32nd Annual ODU Literary Festival" (2009). 32nd Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 6-9, 2009. 6.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-2009/6
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