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‘Black Hawk Down’ author at UD Tuesday 2:29 p.m., Oct. 3, 2005--Mark Bowden, author of best-selling Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, will speak at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 4, in 123 Memorial Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Black Hawk Down spent more than a year on The New York Times bestseller list and was adapted into a film written by Bowden and directed by Ridley Scott. Bowden also is the author of the 2001 bestseller Killing Pablo: the Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw, the story of the hunt for Columbian cocaine billionaire Pablo Escobar. Killing Pablo, which won the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Award as the best book of 2001, is being adapted for film. Bowden is writing the screenplay. Bowden has written three other books and is a regular contributor to major magazines. He is an adjunct professor at Loyola College of Maryland, where he teaches creative writing and journalism. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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