BY KAREN BOSSICK
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman and anthropologist, author and explorer Wade Davis will be among those presenting at the 2018 Sun Valley Writers Conference.
The conference will be held Saturday, July 21, through Tuesday, July 24, at Sun Valley Resort.
Friedman has written such books as “The World Is Flat,” a history of the 21st century, and “Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations.”
Davis is the author of “The Serpent and the Rainbow,” about the zombies of Haiti. His work has taken him to Borneo, Polynesia, Tibet, Vanuatu, Mongolia and the high Arctic of Nunavut as he’s researched such subjects as voodoo and the use of psychotropic drugs.
Other authors confirmed so far include “New Yorker” contributor Ken Auletta, who has written eight books, including “The Fall of the House of Lehman” and “Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way.”
Also, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll; New York Times sportswriter Karen Crouse, who has spoken at the Alturas Institute’s Conversations with Exceptional Women, and National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian-American novelist whose books include “Brother, I’m Dying” and “The Farming of Bones.”
Also, National Book Award-winning Poet Terrance Hayes; Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Adam Johnson, author of “The Orphan Master’s Son;” National Book Award finalist Nicole Krauss, whose novels include “Great House;”short story writer Maile Meloy and foreign policy advisor Fareed Zakaria.
For more information, visit www.svwc.com.