Lee Gutkind, recognized by Vanity Fair as “the Godfather behind creative nonfiction,” will present this year’s Charles S. and Linda W. Wilson Lecture in Medical Humanities.
Gutkind’s April 23 presentation is titled: “Writing About Real Medicine: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up.”
Gutkind is founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction, the first and largest literary magazine to publish narrative nonfiction exclusively. He also is distinguished writer-in-residence in the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University and professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication.
- When: Noon, Tuesday, April 23
- Where: Wittson Hall Amphitheater (Room 3034)
- What: The Wilson Lecture is named for Charles Wilson, M.D., a former UNMC clinical professor and a former University of Nebraska Regent. Dr. Wilson has long encouraged health care professionals to learn humanities — his own story serving as an example. Dr. Wilson dropped his pre-med major to study art, literature, music and other humanities — much to the chagrin of his undergraduate counselor who said, “Mark my words, young man, you will never get into medical school.” Dr. Wilson received his M.D. from Northwestern University in 1964.
How exciting!