Paul Hendrickson

SLCL Authors @ the J and the Westfall Politics & History Series Present
Bestselling Historian Paul Hendrickson

 
Author of “Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II and a Flyer’s Life”
 

In Conversation with Mark Sundlov, Managing Director of the Soldiers Memorial Military Museum
 

The J’s Staenberg Family Complex
Mirowitz Performing Arts Center at 2 Millstone Campus Drive, St. Louis, MO 63146
 

National Book Award-nominated author Paul Hendrickson shares the moving story of his father’s wartime service as a night fighter pilot. In the fall of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson, a twenty-five-year-old first lieutenant, was sent to Iwo Jima, where, for the last five and a half months of World War II, he flew his famed B-61 Black Widow on approximately seventy-five missions, largely in pitch-black conditions. Bringing to life an iconic moment of American history, and the tragedy of all wars, “Fighting the Night” is an intense and powerful story of violence and love, forgiveness and loss.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Books available for purchase from Left Bank Books.