Sept. 9, 2024
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HEARTLAND: A MEMOIR OF WORKING HARD AND BEING BROKE IN THE RICHEST COUNTRY ON EARTH AUTHOR SARAH SMARSH TO SPEAK AT VITERBO UNIVERSITY SEPT. 18
LA CROSSE, Wis. – Best-selling author Sarah Smarsh will discuss resilience, hard work, education, and other lessons from her book Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18 in the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center Main Theatre. The event will also be streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/viterboethics.
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth was an instant New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, the winner of the Chicago Tribune Literary Prize, and a best-books-of-the-year selection by President Barack Obama. Smarsh is also the author of She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her next book, Bone of the Bone: Essays on America from a Daughter of the Working Class, 2012–2024, will be published by Scribner later this year.
Smarsh is a frequent political commentator and speaker on socioeconomic class. She is also a journalist who has reported for the New York Times, Harper’s, the Guardian, and many other publications. She has served as a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a Pritzker Fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
This presentation is part of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership’s Fall Lecture Series. It is free and open to the public. For a full schedule of Ethics Institute events, visit www.viterbo.edu/ethics.
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