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April 23, 2009

Anthony DePalma was the first foreign correspondent of The New York Times to serve as bureau chief in both Mexico and Canada. Starting in 1993, he covered some of the most tumultuous events in modern Mexican history, including the Zapatista uprising. In 1996 he transferred to Canada, where he reported from all 10 provinces and three territories. He is the author of “Here: A Biography of the New American Continent” and wrote nearly 100 of the Portraits of Grief about 9/11 victims that won a Pulitzer Prize. In September 2008, he was named writer-in-residence at Seton Hall University. He is now writing a book on the health and environmental aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center, the greatest environmental disaster in the history of New York.

About the Guest:

Anthony DePalma was the first foreign correspondent of The New York Times to serve as bureau chief in both Mexico and Canada. Starting in 1993, he covered some of the most tumultuous events in modern Mexican history, including the Zapatista uprising, the assassination of the ruling party's presidential candidate and the peso crisis that quickly spread economic chaos to markets all over the world. In 1996 he was transferred to Canada, where he reported from all ten provinces and three territories, including the new territory of Nunavut, in which Inuit people formed their own government.

Besides North America, Mr. DePalma has reported from Cuba, Guatemala, Suriname, Guyana, and, during the Kosovo crisis, Montenegro and Albania. His book "Here: A Biography of the New American Continent," was published in the United States and Canada in 2001. An updated version, with a post 9/11 afterword, was published in 2002. He wrote nearly 100 of the Portraits of Grief about 9/11 victims that won the Pulitzer Prize.

From 2000 to 2002, Mr. DePalma was an international business correspondent for The Times covering North and South America. During his tenure with The Times, he also has held positions in the Metropolitan and National sections of the newspaper. Most recently he wrote about the environment. In 2003, he was awarded a fellowship at Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute for International Studies, where he began work on his book "The Man Who Invented Fidel," published in 2006. It has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, and has been optioned by a motion picture production company.

Mr. DePalma has taught graduate seminars at Columbia University and New York University. In 2007 he was named a Hoover Media Fellow at Stanford University, and he delivered the annual Jane E. Ruby Lecture at Wheaton College. He was nominated for a 2007 Emmy for his work on the television documentary "Toxic Legacy."

In September, 2008, Mr. DePalma was named writer-in-residence at Seton Hall University. He is now writing a book on the health and environmental aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center, the greatest environmental disaster in the history of New York.

 

Event Details

Thursday, April 23, 2009

5:30 p.m. Social Hour
Dinner and Lecture begin at 6:30 p.m.
Schulze Grand Atrium
School of Law
University of St. Thomas
Minneapolis Campus

For more information regarding this event, please contact:

Jane Jackelen
(651) 962-6969
jack3826@stthomas.edu

Space is Limited