PULITZER PRIZE WINNING JOURNALIST - DAVID ROHDE

Saturday, November 9 at 4 PM. Author David Rohde. We are pleased to welcome Pulitzer Prize Winning Author and Maine native David Rohde to the Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library on Saturday, November 9, at 4:00 p.m. Mr. Rohde will be interviewed by author and associate editor for the Washington Post, David Maraniss. Rohde's book (published August 2024), “Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War Against Democracy” will be featured in the discussion. A suggested donation of $25 would be appreciated. Please stop by the Library or call 207-967-2778 to reserve your seat. You may also purchase your ticket through our website www.graveslibrary.org/support. A reception and book signing will follow. The Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport, Maine. Parking is available at Consolidated School (School Street) or the Village Fire Station (North Street). A shuttle will be provided from Consolidated School from 3:15 to 3:45 p.m. and a return to the school from 6:00 to 6:30. David S. Rohde is an investigative journalist and American author. He is the former news director for The New Yorker and now serves as Senior Executive Editor, National Security for NBC News. While a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1996 for his coverage of the Srebrenica massacre. From 2002 to 2005, he was co-chief of the New York Times' South Asia Bureau. He later contributed to the newspaper's team coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan that received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, and was a finalist in his own right in the category in 2010. He is also a global affairs analyst for CNN. While in Afghanistan, Rohde was kidnapped by members of the Taliban in November 2008 but managed to escape in June 2009 after seven months of captivity. His publications include  “Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica”, “Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II”; “A Safe Area: Srebrenica – Europe's Worst Massacre Since the Holocaust, 1997”; “A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides”; “In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America's ‘Deep State’”.