April 9, 2012 | Stefanie Dion Jones - Neag School of Education

UConn Reads Author to Speak in Storrs April 19

New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, co-author of 'Half the Sky,' will give an address at 4 p.m. in the Student Union Theatre.

UConn Reads Author

UConn Reads Author

New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, co-author of 'Half the Sky,' will speak on campus on April 19.
New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, co-author of 'Half the Sky,' will speak on campus on April 19.

On Thursday, April 19, noted New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, co-author of the nonfiction best-seller Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Knopf, 2009), will be on the Storrs campus to deliver a lecture to the University community.

Half the Sky was named last year as the inaugural book selection for the UConn Reads program, a University-wide reading program launched in 2011 by President Susan Herbst. The UConn Reads program is intended to serve as a common reading experience for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the University, culminating in a variety of book discussions campus-wide and a major address, this year on April 19, by the author of the chosen book.

The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has served as an op-ed columnist with The New York Times since 2001. He is an advocate for human rights and social justice. Half the Sky is a nonfiction account centering on the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

He and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn – who is also a co-author of Half the Sky – have written several other books, including China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power (Vintage, 1995) and Thunder from the East, Portrait of a Rising Asia (Vintage, 2001).

Kristof will speak on April 19 at 4 p.m. in the Student Union Theatre on the Storrs campus. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, visit uconnreads.uconn.edu.