MOUNT VERNON – Mark Steyn, internationally renowned columnist and author of the New York Times bestseller America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It , will speak at Cornell College’s Kimmel Theatre on March 4 at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
Steyn’s writing on politics, war, arts, and culture can be read every week around the world from The Orange County Register in California to The Jerusalem Post in the Middle East to Hawke’s Bay Today in New Zealand. In the United States he is National Review’s Happy Warrior, and a contributor to The New Criterion. His weekly column appears in The New York Sun, The Washington Times, The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, and other newspapers.
His other books include Mark Steyn’s Passing Parade, a collection of obituaries and appreciations; the anthology Mark Steyn From Head To Toe; The Face Of The Tiger, a collection of essays on the world since September 11th; and his personal view of a century of show business, Broadway Babies Say Goodnight, an acknowledged classic in its field.
Steyn appears as the second annual Roe Howard Freedom Lecture Series speaker. Howard was a Mount Vernon native, 1917 Cornell graduate and recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross in World War I. He was killed in action in France in 1918. The lecture series is funded through the generosity of the Riesen Foundation and Cornell trustee and alumnus Dean Riesen and alumna Barbara Hull Riesen.