Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Pulitzer Prize winner David Zucchino to debut Wilmington’s Lie in Asheboro library talk

David Zucchino
ASHEBORO – What has gone down in history as a “race riot” in 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, actually was the violent, white supremacist overthrow of a duly-elected, racially-mixed, local government.

The shocking story of that event is the topic of Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author.

Zucchino will debut his book at 7 p.m. Thursday, January 30, at the Asheboro Public Library. His talk, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, is free and the public is invited.

In Wilmington’s Lie, Zucchino uses contemporary newspaper accounts, diaries, letters and official communications to create a gripping and compelling narrative that weaves together individual stories of hate and fear and brutality, creating a dramatic and definitive account of a remarkable but forgotten chapter of American hisotry.

Zucchino was awarded the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for dispatches from apartheid South Africa, “Being Black in South Africa,” for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Based in Durham, N.C., Zucchino now is a contributing writer for The New York Times. He has covered wars and civil conflicts in more than two dozen countries, and is a four-time Pulitzer finalist for his reporting from Iraq, Lebanon, Africa and inner-city Philadelphia.

He is the author of the books  The Myth of the Welfare Queen and Thunder Run.

The library is located at 201 Worth Street. For further information, call 336-318-6803

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