Acclaimed nature writer Peter Matthiessen will visit the campus in April to teach a writing workshop at the SOJC and deliver the Johnston lecture on April 23. The lecture, which is open to the public, is entitled, "The Writer, the Truth and the Law: Peter Matthiessen and the longest-running literary lawsuit in history."

Matthiessen won the National Book Award for The Snow Leopard, and has just completed the third in his Mr. Watson fiction trilogy. A naturalist, world traveler and Zen master, the author of numerous award-winning books of fiction and nonfiction is also known for founding the Paris Review almost 50 years ago.

The annual Ruhl lecture will be delivered by photojournalist Susan Meiselas in the Knight Library. Meiselas, who has spent much of the past 20 years documenting Nicaragua and El Salvador, is a veteran freelancer with the international cooperative Magnum Photos.

Her work was showcased recently at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism in an exhibit, "Central America Documentation/Meditation." The Sandinista series was first published in her book, Nicaragua, and she has had solo shows in New York, Chicago, London, Stockholm and Paris.