"Biography: My Career in 3 Acts," presented by Patrick Parr

 

Thursday, March 13 at 7PM

Ever since his wife asked him a question in December 2012 that changed his life, Patrick Parr has pursued the field of biography. Since that day, Parr has gone on to publish 3 biographical works and over a hundred articles for magazines, newspapers, and digital publications. In this lecture, Parr will explain how he became a writer, how he established his career as a biographer, and how he overcame research challenges writing biographies about Americans while living in Japan. 

 

Patrick Parr teaches at Lakeland University Japan. He is the author of The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age, One Week in America: The 1968 Notre Dame Literary Festival and a Changing Nation, and, most recently, Malcolm Before X, which has been praised by author Michael Eric Dyson as "a breathtaking act of intellectual reconstruction and a sublime literary achievement." Parr is also a history columnist for Japan Today. He lives with his wife near Tokyo. 

 

-To attend the event in person, there is no need to register. For a map and directions to Lakeland's Ryogoku campus, see our website: https://luj.lakeland.edu/contact

 

--To join on Zoom, please register here (before 5PM on the day of the event). You will be emailed a link that afternoon

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Roger Grabowski, Jr.

Assistant Professor of General Studies

Lakeland University Japan