Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, a renowned journalistic team, have traveled the world and lived for many years in Asia, where their work won them the first Pulitzer Prize granted to a husband and wife. They have co-authored five books together. Kristof's latest book is Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life, which covers his career as a journalist reporting from Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo, while traveling to India, Africa, and Europe.

Join us on Wednesday, November 20 at 6:30 p.m. for a conversation with Kristof and WuDunn, moderated by Orville Schell, Vice President and Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, about Kristof's latest book, their experiences as journalists, and their time in China. 

This event is presented by the China Books Review.

Nicholas Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose op-ed columns appear twice a week in The New York Times. He is co-author, with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, of five best-selling books, including Tightrope in 2020 and the No. 1 bestseller Half the Sky. He joined The Times in 1984 and won his first Pulitzer as a foreign correspondent based in China, and his second for his columns from Darfur. He has been bureau chief of The Times in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Toyko, as well as editor of Sunday editions. He has lived on four continents, traveled to 160 countries, and survived unpleasant encounters with mobs, malaria, and an African airplane crash.

Sheryl WuDunn, the first Asian-American to win a Pulitzer Prize, is a business executive, entrepreneur, and best-selling author. She has special expertise in Asia, entrepreneurship, global women's issues, and philanthropy. As an investment banker, she currently helps growth companies, including those operating in the fields of new media technology, entertainment, social media, healthcare, and emerging markets, in particular, China. Previously, WuDunn has been vice president in the investment management division at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and has worked at The New York Times both as a journalist and an executive.  She was a foreign correspondent based in China for The Times and is co-author with her husband, Nicholas D. Kristof, of A Path Appears, Half the Sky, China Wakes, Thunder from the East, and Tightrope.

Orville Schell (moderator) is Vice President and Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, and a former dean of the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. Schell is the author of fifteen books, ten of them about China, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes.