Sept. 10 appearance part of college-wide reading and learning project
Best-selling author and journalist Jeffrey Zaslow will present a discussion on his writings and the people behind them at Kirkwood Community College. Zaslow will speak in Ballantyne Auditorium from 11 to 11:50 a.m. Thursday, September 10.
The presentation is free to Kirkwood faculty, staff and students. Following the auditorium presentation, Zaslow will talk with attendees and autograph copies of his books in the Kirkwood Wall of Honor area on second floor of Iowa Hall.
Zaslow is co-author of The Last Lecture, the #1 bestselling book now being translated into 36 languages. More than 4 million copies of The Last Lecture have been published in the U.S. alone. Early this year Zaslow published The Girls from Ames, profiling a group of women from the central Iowa town and their journeys from high school through adulthood, parenthood, success and loss.
A Kirkwood faculty/staff/student committee chose Zaslow’s The Last Lecture for an all-campus reading/discussion project, providing teaching and learning opportunities into the next few semesters. The “kBook” project seeks to engage discussion among many groups at Kirkwood, encouraging dialogue and in-depth reflections on life, careers, goals and meaning. The group hopes to foster an increased spirit of lifelong learning through the reading, discussions and encouragement of diverse viewpoints.
More information on this campus-wide project is available via the Kirkwood Web site:
The Sept. 10 Kirkwood appearance by Jeffrey Zaslow is made possible by the Kirkwood Foundation, Kirkwood Arts & Humanities department and St. Luke’s Hospital.