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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER CYNTHIA TUCKER TO SPEAK AT MERCANTILE LIBRARY JUNE 10

Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Cynthia Tucker will speak at the Mercantile Library’s sixth annual Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture Tuesday, June 10, at 7:00 p.m.

Tucker is editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a syndicated columnist whose commentary appears in more than 70 newspapers around the country. Tucker's weekly column "As I See It," is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate and won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2007. Tucker has considerable reporting experience, having covered local governments, national politics, crime and education in the states and overseas. She is also a frequent television commentator.

Tucker is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Women's Media Foundation, the National Association of Black Journalists, American Society of Newspaper Editors, the National Association of Minority Media Executives, and the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2000, Tucker won the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Distinguished Writing Award.
In 2005, she was awarded the prestigious Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award by Colby College. In 2006, the National Association of Black Journalists selected her at its Journalist of the Year. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and again in 2006. She graduated from Auburn University in 1976 and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in the 1988-89 academic year.
Cost for the lecture, which includes wine and hors d’oeuvres, is $20 for library members, $25 for others. Call 513.621.0717 or visit www.mercantilelibrary.com for reservations. Sponsors are Paul DeMarco and Karen Smith and Eric and Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney. Ohio National Financial Services is the 2008 Season Presenting Sponsor.