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MIT Program in
Writing and Humanistic Studies
MIT, Room 14E-303
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Telephone: 617-253-7894
FAX: 617-253-6910
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MIT Writers presents . .
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Richard
Preston
Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 8:00 pm
MIT Wong Auditorium, Bldg. E51, 2 Amherst Street,
Cambridge
Preston will read from his latest work, "The Cobra
Event," A Case Study in Biological Terrorism. This
is a stunning thriller about biological weapons and
terrorism. The novel centers on a young medical doctor who,
working with a secret FBI team, thwarts a bio-terror event
in progress in New York City.
From Entertainment Weekly
This book scared the living daylights out of me. (It)
manages to grab you with the sheer autenticity of its
scientific detective work and haunt you with its sheer
plausibility.
From Newsweek
A new hybrid of fact and faction ... utterly
terrifying ... wonderfully readable.
Richard Preston, Ph.D., is a journalist
and the author of the chilling non-fiction book The
Hot Zone. This true story about an outbreak of the
Ebola virus near Washington D.C. became a #1 bestseller.
His success with the two critically and
commercially acclaimed books has put him in the forefront of
the emerging diseases and biotechnology arenas. He has won
numerous awards, including the McDermott Award in the Arts
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the
Overseas Press Club of America's Whitman Basso Award for the
best reporting in any medium on environment issues for
The Hot Zone.
Preston graduated summa cum laude fro
Pomona College in California. He received a Ph.D. in English
from Princeton University.
His interests include white water
canoeing, mountain biking and wilderness backpacking.
Originally from Wellesley, Massachusetts, Preston currently
resides near New York City.
Free and open to the public - no tickets
required
Sponsored by the Program in Writing and Humanistic
Studies and the Whitehead Institute
For more information, call 617/253-7894
MIT Program in Writing - 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
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