Elliot Ackerman, Roxana Robinson and Phil Klay discuss their war-related novels in a panel moderated by Elizabeth D. Samet at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Elizabeth D. Samet is the author of numerous books, essays and reviews on United States military history. She has degrees from Harvard and Yale universities, and she has been an English professor at West Point since 1997. Samet is the recipient of a Hiett Prize in Humanities and a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Her books include “Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War” and “No Man’s Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America."
Speaker Biography: Decorated veteran, former White House Fellow and author Elliot Ackerman has served as an infantry and a special operations officer on multiple tours of duty in the Middle East and Southwest Asia. He has received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor and the Purple Heart. Ackerman’s essays and fiction have appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic and Ecotone. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Beast and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ackerman has also appeared on many programs and networks such as “Charlie Rose,” “The Colbert Report,” NPR’s “Talk of the Nation,” “Meet the Press,” CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Al Jazeera and “PBS NewsHour.” His debut novel, “Green on Blue,” is the coming-of-age tale of the orphan Aziz in Afghanistan.
Speaker Biography: Roxana Robinson is the author of five novels, three collections of short stories and the biography “Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life.” Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, More, Vogue and other publications. Her most recent novel is “Sparta," which focuses on the unique estrangement that modern soldiers face as they attempt to rejoin the society they’ve fought for. “Sparta” has been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and received the James Webb Award and the Maine Literary Award for Fiction.
Speaker Biography: Phil Klay is a writer and veteran U.S. Marine Corps officer who grew up in New York. His writing has been featured in various publications, including Granta, Tin House, The New York Times, New York Daily News, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and “The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012.” Klay won the 2014 National Book Award for “Redeployment," a best-selling collection of short stories which delivers a piercing account of the effects of war on soldiers. He has been named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and has received the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s James Webb Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle John Leonard Award.
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