Who: Samual Hynes and Dave Wood
What: Author appearance and book signing
Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library
When: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 • 7 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

University of Minnesota alumnus and World War II pilot Samuel Hynes is an acclaimed literary historian and Princeton faculty member, but he is perhaps best known as a featured commentator in Ken Burns’s 2007 PBS documentary The War. Hynes has said that he and others of his generation had a special relationship with universities, but not just because of the GI Bill: “The war took people like me from the corner of University and 16th Avenues to unimaginable places like Okinawa, giving us a sense of the world and of opportunity that changed us. When we came home, the universities were there to feed our new curiosities about the wonders of the world.”

Join Hynes as he converses with author and book reviewer Dave Wood about his time at the University of Minnesota and what it means to be a member of the Midwestern diaspora.