Worcester’s Greenwood to Speak on Faking Your Own Death at Clark
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
The lecture will take place on Thursday, February 23 at 7 p.m. in the Higgins Lounge.
The event is free and open to the public.
Elizabeth Greenwood
Greenwood is the author of the nonfiction book, “Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud.”
The book includes stories of men and women who were desperate enough to lose their identities, and families, to start over.
Greenwood teaches creative nonfiction at Columbia University. Her book “Playing Dead” has been reviewed by the New York Times, Slate, and Bloomberg Businessweek.
Copies of Greenwood’s book will be available for purchase at the event. A book signing will follow.
Her essays, profiles, and criticism have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Poets & Writers, Al Jazeera America, and Dissent.
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