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John M. Barry is a prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author whose books have won more than twenty awards. His writing has received not only formal awards but less formal recognition as well. In 2006 the National Academies of Science invited him to give the 2006 Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture on water resources; he is the only non-scientist ever to give that lecture. GQ also named Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America one of nine pieces of writing essential to understanding America; that list also included Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address and Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
After Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana Congressional delegation asked him to chair a bipartisan working group on flood control, and he has also been keynote speaker at a White House Conference on the Mississippi Delta. He serves on advisory boards at M.I.T’s Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and has advised federal, state, United Nations, and World Health Organization officials in several areas. In 2007 he was appointed to both the Southeast Louisiana Flood Control Authority East, which oversees several levee districts in metropolitan New Orleans, and the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, with responsibility for Louisiana ‘s hurricane. He has appeared on such shows as NBC's Meet the Press and NPR's All Things Considered, as well as on such foreign media as the BBC and Al Jazeera, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune, Time, Newsweek, and Esquire. Before becoming a writer, he coached high school, small college and major college football.
For more on John Barry visit: www.johnmbarry.com
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