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Feb. 2, 2005

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author to Deliver Clark Lecture at NC State

Dr. David Levering Lewis, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author, will deliver the 2005 L.M. Clark Lecture at North Carolina State University at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 3 in the multipurpose room (room 126) of the African-American Cultural Center, located in the Witherspoon Student Center on the NC State campus. The event is free and open to the public. Media coverage is invited.

Lewis won Pulitzer Prizes for biography for his two-volume series on W.E.B. Du Bois. The first volume, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919,” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. The second volume, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963,” received the award in 2001.

Lewis serves as Julius Silver University Professor and professor of history at New York University. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society.

The L.M. Clark Lecture is part of a series of programs sponsored by NC State’s African-American Cultural Center designed to celebrate the theme “African-American Creative Genius: Changing the Landscape of Society.”

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