Award winning international affairs writer and Wall Street Journal columnist Claudia Rosett will visit the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on Wednesday, Oct. 27. Her lecture begins at 6:45 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come basis.
Rosett's career spans more than 22 years as a journalist and editor, reporting from Asia, the former Soviet Union, Latin America, and the Middle East. Her column, The Real World, appears in the Wall Street Journal's www.Opinionjournal.com, as well as the Wall Street Journal Europe, and focuses on issues of tyranny and human rights, especially as they relate to the War on Terror. She also has contributed to publications such as The New York Times, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and is a frequent guest on TV and radio. From 1997 to 2002, she served as a member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board in New York.
Rosett, who received an Overseas Press Club Citation for Excellence for her onsite coverage of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, holds a bachelor's degree from Yale University, a master's degree from Columbia University, and also is a graduate of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.