Troubled teens topic of April 15 talk

11:21 a.m., April 8, 2005--Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Marcus will speak and read from his new book, What It Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out, at 3:30 p.m., Friday, April 15, in 127 Memorial Hall. The talk is free and open to the public. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing following Marcus’ presentation.

His book, which focuses on troubled teenagers in a therapeutic boarding school in New England and their parents, has won kudos from reviewers and was selected as a Parade “Picks” and as an editor’s choice by Reader’s Digest. Vanity Fair’s reviewer wrote, “Marcus takes the psychic temperature of the youth culture in the chilling What It Takes to Pull Me Through.”

The book “provides a contrast to popular know-it-alls who spout simplistic diatribes. What It Takes offers some startling facts,” according to USA Today.

An honors graduate of Brown University, Marcus was a 1995-96 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. His career as a journalist and foreign correspondent spanned 20 years. He was co-winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in a series about violence against women around the world and a member of a team of finalists for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for “Hidden Wars,” a look at conflicts in Africa, Latin America and Asia. More recently Marcus taught English as a Wilson Fellow at Deerfield Academy.

For more information, call the English department at (302) 831-2362.

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