Reporter Beth (Jackendoff) Harpaz, a 1981 graduate of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences and author of the new book The Girls in the Van: Covering Hillary (St. Martin's Press), will visit the Cornell campus Feb. 4 to discuss her two years covering Hillary Clinton's senatorial campaign and speak about careers in journalism for those with a liberal arts education. Harpaz has been an Associated Press reporter for more than a dozen years.
The talk, co-sponsored by the Cornell departments of English and American Studies and Arts and Sciences Career Services, will be at 3:30 p.m. in 253 Malott Hall.
Harpaz, who also has a master's degree from Columbia University School of Journalism, has won feature-writing awards from
the Newswomen's Club of New York and the New York Press Club. Her coverage of Clinton's New York state campaign appeared in many newspapers, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Just like The Boys on the Bus [the book by Timothy Crouse on the 1972 Nixon-McGovern presidential race] did a generation ago, The Girls in the Van gives us an intimate portrait, upfront and personal, of a major political campaign," said author Gail Sheehy of Harpaz's book. Said a reviewer in The New York Times Book Review: "[The book] is an entertaining, bouncy romp through the usual fun and games of covering a campaign. ... It gives an illuminating glimpse at how the celebrity of Hillary Clinton kept the news media off base."
Harpaz also will do a book signing and reading from her book Sunday, Feb. 3, at 3 p.m. at the Tompkins County Public Library in Ithaca. The reading is sponsored by The Bookery.
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