Megan K. Stack, 34th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Megan K. Stack

Document Type

Featured Participant

Festival Date

10-7-2011

Location

Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Center for the Performing Arts

Author/Artist Bio

Megan K. Stack has reported on war, terrorism, and political Islam from the Arab world, the Middle East and Southeast Asia since 2001. During a decade at the Los Angeles Times, she was based in Jerusalem, Cairo, Moscow and finally Beijing. Her first book, Every Man in This Village is a Liar, was drawn from her experiences covering the war on terror, and was one of the five nonfiction finalists for the National Book Award in 2010. For her coverage of Iraq she was awarded the 2007 Overseas Press Club’s Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper reporting from abroad, and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. She lives in Beijing with her husband, and is working on her next book – a novel set in contemporary Moscow.

Description

Stack read on Friday, October 7th, 2011 at 3:30 p.m.

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