{"id":17235,"date":"2009-09-29T13:29:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T20:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=17235"},"modified":"2015-08-17T14:55:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T21:55:22","slug":"pulitzer-prize-winning-author-to-speak-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/pulitzer-prize-winning-author-to-speak-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulitzer Prize-winning author to speak on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonia Nazario, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\u00a0<em>Enrique&#8217;s Journey: The Story of a Boy&#8217;s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother,<\/em>\u00a0will discuss her work, present a photographic slide show and sign books, beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, in Ardrey Auditorium.<\/p>\n<table width=\"149\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"149\" height=\"195\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17241\" alt=\"Enrique's Journey\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/book.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The book is a timeless story of families torn apart, the yearning to be together again, and the flood of young Central Americans coming to America.<\/p>\n<p>Nazario\u2019s account of Enrique\u2019s journey first appeared in the\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>. She won the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/works\/2003-feature-writing\">2003 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing<\/a>\u00a0for the series.<\/p>\n<p>The author will discuss the book and show a slide show of photographs by Don Bartletti, a\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0photojournalist whose work features borderland issues.<\/p>\n<p><em>Enrique&#8217;s Journey\u00a0<\/em>was the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/naureads-brings-a-common-experience-to-first-year-nau-students\/\">featured book<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nau.edu\/NAUreads\">NAUreads<\/a>, the summer reading program that invites first-year NAU students to read the same book and participate in conversations about it, providing them with a common experience as they begin their educational journey.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. For tickets, call (928) 523-2803 or (928) 523-5661. Tickets also will be available at the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/pulitzer-prize-winning-author-to-speak-on-campus\/\">Sonia Nazario, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\u00a0Enrique&#8217;s Journey: The Story of a Boy&#8217;s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother,\u00a0will discuss her work, present a photographic slide show and sign books, beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, in Ardrey Auditorium. The book is a timeless story of families torn apart, the yearning to be&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":17245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}