Pulitzer Prize winner Meacham to be inducted as a Weil Fellow on Jan. 29
Former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for a biography on Andrew Jackson, will be inducted as a Weil Fellow and give a keynote address at Auburn Montgomery on Sunday, Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m., in Goodwyn Hall 109. The event is free and open to the public.
Meacham worked at Newsweek from 1995 to 2010 – moving up the ranks from writer to national affairs editor to managing editor, before ultimately serving as editor from 2006 to 2010. He captured the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2009 for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. He also authored New York Times bestsellers American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation and Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship.
Meacham currently serves as executive vice president and executive editor at Random House Publishing Group, where he is presently editing a book by former Vice President Al Gore. From 2010 to 2011, he co-anchored a weekly prime-time news and public affairs program for PBS, “Need to Know.”
During his appearance at Auburn Montgomery, Meacham will discuss “Changing Times in the Presidency: How the Past Defines the Future.”
Established at AUM in 1995 in honor of Adolph Weil, the Weil Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities is awarded to persons of distinguished achievement in the arts and humanities. Previous fellows have included Pat Conroy, Mitch Albom, Dr. John Stone, Stuart Margolin, William Christenberry, George Tsontakis and Marge Champion.
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