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AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST MARK ARAX TO SPEAK AT ANC GRASSROOTS
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 2, 2011 - 09:42 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian National Committee - Western Region
(ANC-WR) has announced that award-winning journalist and author Mark
Arax will deliver the keynote address at ANC Grassroots, on Sunday,
November 27.
Mark Arax is the author of "In My Father's Name," and "West of the
West," and the co-author of the bestseller "The King of California."
A former senior writer at The Los Angeles Times, he now teaches
writing at Fresno State University and is working on a new book,
this one a fictional novel. His Los Angeles Times stories revealing
state-sanctioned murder and cover-up in California prisons were praised
by The Nation magazine as "one of great journalistic achievements
of the decade." In a review of his most recent book, "West of the
West," the Washington Post called Mark a "great reporter~Etenacious
and unrelenting." His books on California have been compared to the
"great social portraits" by William Saroyan and Joan Didion, and he
is considered one of the finest journalists of his generation.
A top graduate of Fresno State and Columbia University, Mark left
the Los Angeles Times in 2007 after a public fight over censorship of
history on the Armenian Genocide. He has taught literary non-fiction
at Claremont McKenna College and Fresno State University and served
as a senior policy director for the California Senate Majority Leader.
The three-day ANC Grassroots program is a groundbreaking weekend of
workshops and panel presentations that will educate the community
about civic leadership arising from grassroots efforts.
From: A. Papazian
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 2, 2011 - 09:42 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian National Committee - Western Region
(ANC-WR) has announced that award-winning journalist and author Mark
Arax will deliver the keynote address at ANC Grassroots, on Sunday,
November 27.
Mark Arax is the author of "In My Father's Name," and "West of the
West," and the co-author of the bestseller "The King of California."
A former senior writer at The Los Angeles Times, he now teaches
writing at Fresno State University and is working on a new book,
this one a fictional novel. His Los Angeles Times stories revealing
state-sanctioned murder and cover-up in California prisons were praised
by The Nation magazine as "one of great journalistic achievements
of the decade." In a review of his most recent book, "West of the
West," the Washington Post called Mark a "great reporter~Etenacious
and unrelenting." His books on California have been compared to the
"great social portraits" by William Saroyan and Joan Didion, and he
is considered one of the finest journalists of his generation.
A top graduate of Fresno State and Columbia University, Mark left
the Los Angeles Times in 2007 after a public fight over censorship of
history on the Armenian Genocide. He has taught literary non-fiction
at Claremont McKenna College and Fresno State University and served
as a senior policy director for the California Senate Majority Leader.
The three-day ANC Grassroots program is a groundbreaking weekend of
workshops and panel presentations that will educate the community
about civic leadership arising from grassroots efforts.
From: A. Papazian