David K. Shipler, a longtime journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, will speak at 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 28, in the Great Hall on the Homewood campus.

The title of his talk is "The Working Poor: Invisible in America," which is also the title of his latest book. Shipler will be signing copies of his book at the event.

Shipler wrote for The New York Times from 1966 to 1988, reporting from New York, Saigon, Moscow and Jerusalem before serving as chief diplomatic correspondent in Washington, D.C. He has also written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. He is the author of the books Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams; Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, which won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1987; and A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America.

Shipler, who has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has taught at Princeton, American University and Dartmouth.

The talk is part of the Institute for Policy Studies' Press and Public Policy Seminar Series, which spotlights the common ground between those who study and those who report on domestic policy issues. Reservations are requested due to limited seating. RSVP to ksottak@jhu.edu.

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