Author and journalist Sam Quinones will present a lecture titled “Dreamland: America’s Opiate Epidemic,” based on his book, on Thursday, Oct. 26, at 7:30 p.m., in the Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public and sponsored by the Levitt Center.
Quinones is a former LA Times reporter, and author of three acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction. His most recent book is Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Bloomsbury Press. The book was one of Amazon.com’s 2015 Best Books of the Year.
His career as a journalist has spanned almost 30 years. Quinones lived for 10 years as a freelance writer in Mexico, where he wrote his first two books. In 2004, he returned to the United States to work for the L.A. Times, covering immigration, drug trafficking, neighborhood stories, and gangs.
In 2014, Quinones resigned from the paper to return to freelancing, working for National Geographic, Pacific Standard Magazine, The New York Times, Los Angeles Magazine, and other publications.
Columbia Journalism School selected him as a 2008 recipient of the Maria Moors Cabot prize, for a career of excellence in covering Latin America. He is also a 1998 recipient of an Alicia Patterson Fellowship, one of the most prestigious fellowships given to print journalists.
