Penguin Speakers Bureau
Biography
Dudley Clendinen has been a national reporter and editorial writer for The New York Times, assistant managing editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Baltimore Sun, and a columnist for The St. Petersburg Times. He is the editor of a book of essays, THE PREVAILING SOUTH: Life and Politics ...
Read moreDudley Clendinen has been a national reporter and editorial writer for The New York Times, assistant managing editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Baltimore Sun, and a columnist for The St. Petersburg Times. He is the editor of a book of essays, THE PREVAILING SOUTH: Life and Politics in a Changing Culture, and is the author of the text for a book of photographs, HOMELESS IN AMERICA. He is coauthor of OUT FOR GOOD: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America. Clendinen’s own essays are collected in various anthologies. His recent book, A PLACE CALLED CANTERBURY: Tales of the New Age in America, is an exploration of the Greatest Generation’s last years, and has been met with rave reviews. Dudley lives in Baltimore.
Speaking Topics
- No Training for Love: Our Parents and Us in the New Old Age
- Talking to Doctors: What Patients Don’t Say, and Physicians Don’t Know
- What’s a Good Place for Mother, and What Should It Cost?
- Writing from Life: Funny, Dramatic, Mysterious Us
- The Special History of Gay Rights in America
- The History of Elder Care in America: What Now?
- How Long Should Life Be—and What Choices Do We Have?
- Caring Hands: The Nurses and Assistants Who Love Us at the End
- Staying Connected: The Importance of Itimacy When Someone is Old
- My Mother (Child) is Driving Me Crazy
- Bold, Whimsical, Provocative and Cheap: Collecting Art That Makes Life Happy
Featured Book
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A PLACE CALLED CANTERBURY
“Beautifully written, this moving and humorous look at aging in the 21st century should prove invaluable for anyone grappling with, or curious about, the challenges and opportunities in later life.”—The Wall Street Journal
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