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Carnegie Author Series with Dr. Matthew Desmond

Join us for talks with engaging national authors, free and open to all. Tickets will be available 6 weeks prior to event.

Tickets will be available 6 weeks prior to event.

Carnegie Author Series featuring Dr. Matthew Desmond
Sunday, Dec. 8 | 2 p.m.

Main Library | 96 S. Grant Ave.

1 p.m. | Library opens

1:30 p.m. | Seating opens in the second floor Reading Room

2 p.m. | Author Talk with Dr. Matthew Desmond

2:45 p.m.| Audience Q&A

3:00 p.m. | Book signing

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology and the founder and principal investigator of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. A former member of the Harvard Society of Fellows, he is also the author of the award-winning book On the Fireline and Poverty by America. He has written essays on educational inequality, dangerous work, political ideology, race and social theory, and the inner-city housing market. He is a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker and The Chicago Tribune.

EVENT DETAILS

Free parking available in Main Library's attached garage.

The event is free to the public but registration is requested.

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