Sheri Fink is a Pulitzer prize winning journalist and NY Times correspondent. She will be visiting SU asthe keynote speaker for the Watson Symposium in the Humanities on April 4th. She will discuss her award-winning book “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital“.
From her website:
“Sheri Fink is the author of the book, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown, 2013), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and Ridenhour Book Prize. Fink’s reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Magazine Award, the Mike Berger Award, and the Overseas Press Club Lowell Thomas Award, among other journalism prizes. A former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, Fink received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her first book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (PublicAffairs), is about medical professionals under siege during the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. She is a correspondent at the New York Times.”Five Days at Memorial, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Ridenhour Book Prize, is Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina – and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.
“Dr. Fink brings a shimmering intelligence to its many narrative cul-de-sacs, which consider medical, legal and ethical issues…. By reporting the depth of those gruesome hours in Memorial before the helicopters came, and giving weight to medical ethics as grounded in the law, Sheri Fink has written an unforgettable story. Five Days at Memorial is social reporting of the first rank.”
Sheri will speak at 3:00 pm on April 4th, in 304 Schine. There will be a public reception to follow.
For a preview, see her discussing her book on the Jon Stewart show here:
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