Forbes Library "Sundays at Two" Series
Continues with Local Author Joe Nocera

Joe Nocera, local author and editor, will be the speaker at the final event in this year's Sundays at Two series sponsored by the Friends of Forbes Library and Smith College.

Nocera, editor at large at Fortune magazine, will speak at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 9, in the Calvin Coolidge Room at Forbes Library. Nocera, who has been associated with Fortune since 1995, writing primarily about the stock market, is also a business commentator for NPR's Weekend Edition.

Nocera's history of modern personal finance, "A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class," published in 1994, won the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism and was named one of the ten best business books of 1994 by Business Week magazine. His story, "Lawyers from Hell," about the role of the plaintiff's lawyers in the breast implant litigation, won the 1996 Gerald Loeb award for business and financial journalism.

Before joining Fortune, Nocera wrote for Esquire and GQ, was an editor at Newsweek, the New England Monthly, Texas Monthly and The Washington Monthly. He has also been a freelance writer for numerous publications. A graduate of Boston University, he lives in Northampton.

Nocera's talk is open free to the public.

March 22, 2000