Eric Greitens, Navy SEAL and Best Selling Author Book Release Event

To celebrate the release of The Warrior’s Heart, the young audiences adaptation of Eric Greitens’ best-selling book, The Heart and the Fist, please join us at Maryville University for a discussion, book signing, and reception.

Eric Greitens was born and raised in Missouri, where he was educated in the public schools. He was an Angier B. Duke Scholar at Duke University, and was later selected as a Rhodes and a Truman Scholar. He attended the University of Oxford where he earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. He has worked as a humanitarian volunteer, documentary photographer, and researcher in Rwanda, Cambodia, Albania, Mexico, Israel, India, Bosnia, and Bolivia. Eric also served as a United States Navy SEAL officer for ten years, and deployed four times during the Global War on Terrorism. After returning from Iraq in 2007, Eric donated his combat pay to found The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit organization that challenges veterans to serve and lead in communities across America.

The Warrior’s Heart is the young audiences adaptation of The Heart and the Fist, Eric Greitens’ story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a humanitarian and a warrior.  In this adaptation of The Heart and the Fist, Eric speaks directly to teens. Readers will share in Eric’s evolution from average kid to globe-traveling humanitarian to warrior, training and serving with the most elite military outfit in the world: the Navy SEALs. Along the way, they’ll be asked to consider the power of choice, of making the decision each and every day to act with courage and compassion so that they grow to be tomorrow’s heroes. In The Warrior’s Heart, young adults learn that there’s a way to move through tough circumstances and painful moments to become wiser, stronger, more courageous, and more compassionate.

At 7:00pm on October 16^th, 2012 Eric Greitens will speak at the Maryville University Auditorium (650 Maryville University Drive, St Louis, MO 63141). This event is free and open to the public. Books will be sold on-site by Left Bank Books. Please visit http://www.maryville.edu/events/2012/10/author-eric-greitens/ for more information.