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Jared Diamond & Susan Diamond

In conversation with Roy Eisenhardt

Wednesday, January 9, 2008  |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

Jared Diamond and Susan Diamond are siblings and writers who will discuss the development of their varied careers, both in choice of subject and methods.

Jared Diamond is an evolutionary biologist and a pioneering ecologist whose numerous books include the bestseller Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. Diamond has made expeditions to New Guinea and other Southwest Pacific islands to study birds, spending a great deal of time in the isolated and nearly uninhabited mountain ranges of New Guinea's north coast, where he made a widely published ornithological finding. He is currently a professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Susan Diamond studied fiction as a fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop, but has spent most of her time since as a journalist. She has worked for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Time, People, and the Village Voice. Diamond spent seventeen years at the Los Angeles Times as a feature writer and columnist. What Goes Around is her first novel. The story recounts the murder of a woman by three influential men in Los Angeles, a setting familiar to Diamond from her many years as a reporter there.

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