Bill Moyers To Speak At UB Nov. 3

By Mary Beth Spina

Release Date: October 20, 1999 This content is archived.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Bill Moyers, well-known television program producer and host, journalist and author, will speak at 8 p.m. Nov. 3 in the Center for the Arts Mainstage theater on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

The lecture will be part of the Distinguished Speakers Series, presented by UB and the Don Davis Auto World Lectureship Fund. The series is sponsored by the UB Student Association; the university's Office of Conferences and Special Events will sponsor Moyers' lecture.

During his 25-year broadcasting career, Moyers has demonstrated his diversity of pursuit and probing intellect.

Since establishing Public Affairs Television as an independent production company in 1986, Moyers has produced such programs as "God and Politics," "Listening to America With Bill Moyers" and "Addiction: Road to Recovery."

Author of the best-selling book "Listening to America," Moyers wrote four others, based on his television series, that also became best-sellers: "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth," "A World of Ideas I," "The World of Ideas II" and "Healing and the Mind."

He just published "Fooling With Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft," in which he talks to 11 poets about how and why they write poetry, and the particular influences on their work.

Born in Oklahoma, Moyers grew up in Texas and graduated from the University of Texas. He also earned a master's degree at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Also speaking as part of the series will be political analyst and author George Stephanopoulos on March 22 and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker on April 26.

Tickets are available through the UB Center for the Arts box office at 716-645-2787 or through TicketMaster locations by calling 716-852-5000.

Series affiliate sponsors are the University Bookstore and the Western New York Independent Living Project. Contributing series sponsors are Makin' Copies, UB Alumni Association, the Buffalo Niagara/Marriott, the Amherst Chamber of Commerce, the UB Center for the Arts, WBFO-FM 88.7 and CITIBANK.