An Evening with Ed Yong: Council Bluffs Public Library Speaker Series
December 12 | 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.Arts Center at Iowa Western
Proudly supported by the Council Bluffs Public Library Foundation. Program at 7:00 p.m., Book Signing at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets are available for purchase through the Arts Center Box Office.
Ed Yong is a British-American science journalist, a Pulitzer winner, and the author of two bestselling books.
For his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ed won the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism; the George Polk Award for science reporting; the Benton Award for distinguished public service; the Victor Cohn Prize for medical science reporting, the Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for investigative journalism; the John P. McGovern Award from the American Medical Writers’ Association; and the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for in-depth reporting. He was also a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award in public service, and was described as “the most important and impactful journalist of 2020” by Poynter.
He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: AN IMMENSE WORLD, about the
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