Scott Wallace

WHEELING – The Ohio County Public Library’s next Lunch With Books program will feature award winning writer an photographer Scott Wallace.

The program will take place at noon on Tuesday, April 21, at the library in downtown Wheeling.

This talk by Wallace, accompanied by the author’s photographs, offers a gripping frontline view of a war reporter’s quest for truth amid a landscape of death and deception, rich in storytelling and abiding relevance in today’s world.

Wallace is an award-winning writer and photographer who covers armed conflict, the environment, and vanishing cultures in volatile frontier regions around the world. Formerly a correspondent in Latin America for CBS News, Newsweek, and The Guardian, he is the author of the award-winning photographic and narrative memoir, “Central America in the Crosshairs of War: On the Road from Vietnam to Iraq,” and the New York Times bestseller, “The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes,” based on his firsthand experiences trekking through the land of an uncontacted Indigenous group deep in the Brazilian jungle.

His written work has also appeared in National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, the New York Times, Washington Post, Harper’s and Smithsonian, among many others. His photography is represented by Getty Images and has been published in newspapers and magazines throughout the world. Currently an associate professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut, he is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Missouri School of Journalism.