Pulitzer Prize winner to speak in Fairbanks

September 28, 2010

Marmian Grimes

Marmian Grimes
907-474-7902
9/27/10

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ceaser Williams will give a free public lecture Wednesday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. at the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center in downtown Fairbanks.

Williams’ lecture, “Iron Williams: Life and Times,” will chronicle his four decades of work as a writer and editor at papers like the Kansas City Star, Philadelphia Inquirer and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as well as his work to support minority journalists.

The lecture is part of the University of Alaska Fairbanks journalism department’s C. W. Snedden Guest Lecture Series.

MEDIA CONTACT: UAF journalism department at 907-474-7761. Marmian Grimes, UAF public information officer, at 907-474-7902 or via e-mail at marmian.grimes@alaska.edu.

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