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Summer Reading Author Converses with Students
Author Mitchell Zuckoff visited Woodberry Forest School on December 3, 2014, to discuss Lost in Shangri La, the book that served as Woodberry’s 2014 all-school summer reading selection. He answered questions posed by English department chair, Ted Blain, and other members of the community in a town-hall-style discussion of his work, his methods, and his journalistic perspective on current events.
The New York Times bestseller, subtitled “A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II” recounts a story Mitchell Zuckoff rediscovered while combing through newspaper archives. It tells of a group of three military personnel who survive a plane crash that kills twenty-one in a remote area of New Guinea populated by cannibalistic tribesmen. They endure in that environment until heroic paratroopers and glider pilots rescue them.
Mitchell Zuckoff is a Pulitzer Prize finalist who formerly worked for the Boston Globe and currently teaches journalism at Boston University. He earned a BA from University of Rhode Island, an MA from University of Missouri, and was a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia.
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