March Luncheon Meeting
Join us at the Press Club on Thursday, March 15, 2012 for an informative lunch meeting!
Topic: Ernest Hemingway
Guest speaker: Redd Griffin, founding member of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation
Redd Griffin will explore how what Ernest Hemingway learned in the American heartland helped him write enduring literature for the world. While many influences of the Midwest affected Hemingway’s writing, he paid special tribute to his early work in journalism, which began at Oak Park and River Forest High School and continued at the Kansas City Star. Griffin’s program shows how through half a century on four continents Hemingway’s heartland writing led to writing for “the land of the heart.”
Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012 at noon
Location: Union League Club, 65 W. Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL
Union League Club Dress Code
Lunch is $25 per person including three-course meal, coffee/tea, tax and gratuity (soda is not included however it may be purchased separately)
RSVP today! Register online, contact Lee Salberg by email leesalberg@gmail.com or by phone - 847-965-0240..
Questions? Call or e-mail us at info@ipcc.us.
Bio
Redd Griffin is a lifelong friend of Ernest Hemingway’s family and a founding director and past chair of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. He has spent decades promoting understanding and appreciation of the Nobel Prize-winning author through courses, lectures, readers theater, exhibits, Elderhostels/Road Scholars, the Internet and audiovisual and print media.
He reported for City News Bureau of Chicago and worked on WTTW’s production staff. He was a trustee of Shimer College and a State representative in the Illinois General Assembly. He served in the U.S. Army Security Agency in Cold War Berlin.
He teaches at Triton College and Hines VA Hospital. He serves on the boards/advisory boards of the International Press Club of Chicago and WTTW. He is a member of the executive committee of the Illinois State Historical Society.
Union League Club, Chicago, IL