{"id":7429,"date":"2019-03-01T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/?p=7429"},"modified":"2019-03-01T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T15:00:49","slug":"nicholls-alum-author-to-hold-book-talk-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/01\/nicholls-alum-author-to-hold-book-talk-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholls alum, author to hold book talk, signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7430\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/02\/Ken-Wells.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7430 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/02\/Ken-Wells-164x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Wells<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">THIBODAUX, La. &#8212; Award-winning author, journalist and alumni Ken Wells will be at the Chef John Folse Culinary Institute on March 8 to discuss his latest book, \u201cGumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u201d and host a book signing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event will be at 1 p.m. in the Lanny D. Ledet Culinary Arts Building. Wells will discuss the book, give a short reading, answer questions and sign books. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGumbo Life\u201d is a narrative history on one of Cajun Country&#8217;s most famous dishes. Insight and comments from Nicholls culinary instructors Chef Marcelle Bienvenu and Chef Randy Cheramie, as well as Chef John Folse, are featured throughout the book. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Bayou Black native grew up the son of an alligator hunter and a homemaker. After graduating from Nicholls in 1971, Wells worked as a reporter and managing editor with the Houma Courier before moving on to the Miami Herald and the Wall Street Journal. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 with the Herald. In his 24 years with the Wall Street Journal, he worked as a reporter and editor from San Francisco, London, South Africa and New York. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He co-founded Portfolio Magazine in 2006 and then worked for more than six years with Bloomberg News before retiring in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/02\/Gumbo-Life.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7431 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/02\/Gumbo-Life-145x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"326\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 215px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 215\/326;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGumbo Life\u201d will be Wells\u2019 eighth book. He has published five fiction books, including \u201cMeely LaBauve,\u201d \u201cJunior\u2019s Leg,\u201d \u201cLogan\u2019s Storm,\u201d \u201cCrawfish Mountain\u201d and \u201cRascal, a Dog and His Boy.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of his previous nonfiction work, \u201cTravels with Barley: The Quest for the Perfect Beer Joint\u201d was published in 2004, and he won the Harry Chapin Book Award for the Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous in 2008. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wells has lectured at the Faulkner Society Words and Music Festival in New Orleans, the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference at the University of North Texas, and served as an adjunct professor for Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from Nicholls and was inducted as a Louisiana Legend by Louisiana Public Broadcasting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mar. 1, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>CONTACT: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jacob Batte, Media Relations and Publications Coordinator, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">985.448.4141<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">jacob.batte@www.nicholls.edu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIBODAUX, La. &#8212; Award-winning author, journalist and alumni Ken Wells will be at the Chef John Folse Culinary Institute on March 8 to discuss his latest book, \u201cGumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou,\u201d and host a book signing. 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