Meet the author: Sam Quinones - Virtual
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Feb 9, 2023 7pm - 8pm
Location
Zoom
Event Category
Virtual
About
Join Sam Quinones for a discussion of the fentanyl epidemic on Zoom.
Sam Quinones is the author of "The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth," as well as "Dreamland: the True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic."
Sam Quinones is an independent journalist and author of four acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction, including The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth, as well as Dreamland: the True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner. Quinones’ career as a journalist has spanned 35 years. 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. His knowledge of American society's abuse of fentanyl, methamphetamines and opiates has been plumbed by C-SPAN, PBS, NPR, including Terry Gross, as well as popular podcasters, such as Marc Maron. In 2018, he testified before the US Senate on the opioid epidemic.
