The American History Book Club and Forum, Upcountry History Museum and Furman University will host The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on Oct. 19th at 7:00 pm at The Poinsett Club in downtown Greenville.
Dowd will be joined by Carl Hulse, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, for a talk and conversation on “Humor and History: Satire’s Role in Democracy.” The event is open to the public but reservations are required.
The cost for attending is $50 per person with the opportunity to include a donation to the Furman University Huff Scholars Fund, which supports Furman student internships and research and promotes history literacy in grades K-12.
Dowd, the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary and author of two New York Times best-sellers, became an op-ed columnist for The New York Times in 1995. She joined the paper in 1983 as a metropolitan correspondent and then moved to the Washington bureau in 1986 to cover politics.