Paul Hendrickson | Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, WW II and a Flyer’s Life
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- Thursday May 16th 2024, 7:30pm to 9:00pm
In conversation with Wil Haygood
Paul Hendrickson’s books include Sons of Mississippi, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War, a National Book Award finalist. A creative writing teacher at the University of Pennsylvania for more than 25 years and a feature writer at The Washington Post for the two decades before that, he is the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lyndhurst Foundation, among other institutions. In Fighting the Night, Hendrickson tells the story of his father’s World War II service as a nighttime fighter pilot and the sacrifices he, his family, and his generation made on behalf of their country.
Paul Hendrickson’s books include Sons of Mississippi, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War, a National Book Award finalist. A creative writing teacher at the University of Pennsylvania for more than 25 years and a feature writer at The Washington Post for the two decades before that, he is the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lyndhurst Foundation, among other institutions. In Fighting the Night, Hendrickson tells the story of his father’s World War II service as a nighttime fighter pilot and the sacrifices he, his family, and his generation made on behalf of their country.
