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For Immediate Release —Oct. 28, 2008 James Reston Jr.
to Visit SUNY Geneseo Oct. 29 GENESEO,
N.Y. -- Well-known author James Reston Jr., a significant figure in assisting
David Frost with the famous Nixon interviews of 1977, will be on the SUNY Geneseo campus Oct. 29.
He will participate in a public seminar from 10:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in
Milne Library Room 208. His recent book,
“The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The
Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews,” is the basis of the play
“Frost/Nixon” currently at Rochester’s GEVA Theater, and a film of the same
name coming out in December. Reston is
currently a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
in Washington Reston
is the author of 13 books, three plays and numerous articles in national
magazines. His last four historical
works, “Galileo: A Life,” “The Last
Apocalypse,” “Warriors of God,” and “Dogs of God” have been translated into 12
foreign languages. “Warriors of God” and
“Collision at Home Plate” have been optioned by Hollywood. His
articles have been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, The New York
Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Esquire, American Theatre, Playboy and Rolling
Stone. Reston
was an assistant to U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall, from
1964-65. He was a lecturer in creative
writing at the University of North Carolina from 1971-81. |
