Celebrity dinner speaker will be renowned author

YOUNGSTOWN — WYSU-FM and the James Dale Ethics Center will present an evening with award-winning author and prize-winning journalist Ted Gup on Sept. 26 at the Youngstown Club, where a reception at 6:30 p.m. will precede the 7:30 dinner.

Gup, the Shirley Wormser professor of journalism at Case Western Reserve University, is the 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.” He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the George Polk Award, the Worth Bingham Prize, the Gerald Loeb Award, and the Book-of-the-Year Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors.

A former staff writer for the Washington Post and Time Magazine, Gup and his wife, Peggy, and their sons, David and Matthew, live in Pepper Pike and Bucksport, Maine.

Gup will be available to autograph copies of his books.

Tickets for the pre-event reception, dinner and program are $75. Tickets for the program and dinner only are $50 for WYSU members and $60 for non-members. Reservations can be made by calling (330) 941-3363, or on-line at www.wysu.org.