Author Ted Gup to speak

YOUNGSTOWN — Author and journalist Ted Gup will speak at the Youngstown Club Sept. 26.

Gup is a journalism professor at Case Western Reserve University and author of “The Book of Honor: Covert Lives And Classified Deaths At The CIA,” and “Nation of Secrets: The Threat To Democracy And The American Way Of Life.”

A Pulitzer finalist, Gup has received the George Polk Award, the Worth Bingham Prize, the Gerald Loeb Award, and the Book-of-the-Year Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors (for “The Book of Honor”). He was a Fulbright Scholar to China (1985-1986), a grantee of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a Fellow of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellow.

Gup is a former staff writer for The Washington Post and Time Magazine. He and his wife, Peggy, and their sons, David and Matthew, live in Pepper Pike, Ohio, and Bucksport, Maine.

Gup’s appearance is sponsored by WYSU-FM and the James Dale Ethics Center.

The evening will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m. Dinner will be at 7:30 p.m., followed by the main program. Afterward, Gup will autograph copies of his books.

Tickets are $50 for WYSU members and $60 for nonmembers. Tickets for the reception are $75 (for members and nonmembers) and include admission to the dinner. For reservations, call (330) 941-3363, or go to www.wysu.org.