New York Times Columnist and Bestselling Author Samuel G. Freedman to Speak in Gwinnett

Presented by Georgia Gwinnett College’s Department of
Student Involvement and the GGC Student Center, in partnership with Gwinnett County
Public Library.

Freedman won a Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in
Journalism for his book “Upon This Rock” in 1997. His book “The Inheritance”
was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize. Freedman is a professor at the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. He writes
the column, “On Religion,” for the New York Times and has contributed to
several other publications, including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and USA
Today.

The event is free
and open to the public. It will be held in the LVIS Room in the Student Center.
Ample free parking is available on campus at dorm building 3000B on Lonnie Havel Boulevard in
Lawrenceville.