On Friday, September 28, at 4:30 p.m. the Friends of the Academy Library sponsored “A Conversation with Author Anthony Weller ’75,” moderated by Jack Herney, Robert Shaw White Professor and Instructor in History, and newly appointed Secretary of the Friends of the Academy Library. Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. in the Kaplanoff Periodicals Room. The conversation will occur on the main floor, in Rockefeller Hall.

Weller is the author of First Into Nagasaki: the Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War (Crown Publishers, 2006), in which he presents long-lost dispatches of his father, legendary war correspondent George Weller. George Weller was the first American journalist to reach Nagasaki after it was hit by an atomic bomb on August 9, 1945. The stories he filed from the city were censored by the U.S. military. These collected dispatches focusing on the horrors of post-bomb Nagasaki and the brutal treatment of Allied POWs, vividly relate the everyday inhumanity of the Pacific war.

Anthony Weller has also written several works of fiction, including The Siege of Salt Cove, published by W. W. Norton & Co. in 2004. In addition to his works of fiction, Weller has written for Geo, Playboy, Gourmet, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Condé Nast Traveler, and dozens of other magazines. He is also a composer and plays jazz and classical guitar professionally.

For further information, please contact Academy Librarian, Jacquelyn Thomas, at 603-777-3328.