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DU Home > News & Events > Media Releases > August 2003 > Alex Kotlowitz Addresses DU Convocation

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Alex Kotlowitz Addresses DU Convocation

Noted author Alex Kotlowitz will be the guest speaker for Dominican University’s academic convocation on Thursday, September 11. Kotlowitz, author of the recent book, The Other Side of the River, and the best-selling There Are No Children Here, will address the convocation at 4:00 p.m. in Lund Auditorium on the university’s Main Campus, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

A resident of Oak Park, Kotlowitz received the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize for Nonfiction for The Other Side of the Rive r , the story of two towns separated by a river and a history of racial tension. St. Joseph, primarily white and prosperous, and Benton Harbor, primarily black and economically disadvantaged, have been at odds for decades. Kotlowitz’s nonfiction book tells the story of a black teenager’s death and how both communities react to this tragedy.

Kotlowitz published in 1991 There Are No Children Here, the story of two boys growing up in Chicago’s infamous Henry Horner Homes public housing project. The book was the recipient of the Helen B. Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Carl Sandburg Award and a Christopher Award. The New York Public Library selected the book as one of the 150 most important books of the century and, in 1993, it was adapted for television as an ABC Movie-of-the-Week starring Oprah Winfrey.

Kotlowitz was honored with the John LaFarge Memorial Award for Interracial Justice by New York’s Catholic Interracial Council and is the recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the George Polk Award. A writer-in-residence at Northwestern University and a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame, Kotlowitz contributes to The New York Times magazine, the New Yorker and the public radio program, This American Life. He is the recent recipient of a George Foster Peabody Award for a series, Stories of Home, which he produced for Chicago public radio and he served as a correspondent and writer for a recent Frontline television documentary, Let’s Get Married.

He has been a Distinguished Visitor at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and was a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to 1993, writing on urban affairs and social policy.

For more information about Dominican University’s convocation, contact (708) 524-6294.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library Information Science, the Graduate School of Business Information Systems, the School of Education and the Graduate School of Social Work. In the 2004 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U. S. News & World Report ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master level universities and a Best Value for the sixth consecutive year.