Author Talk with Ralph White in Conversation with Jim Brooke

Library : Stockbridge Library Association

Location : MA

Start : Saturday 15th of March 2025 3:00 PM

End : Saturday 15th of March 2025 4:00 PM

Description :

2025 will be the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27 Year Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians by Ralph White. Ralph White managed branches of the American Express International Banking Corporation in Okinawa and Vietnam and received an MBA from Columbia University. He served as a senior vice president in financial engineering at Marsh and McLennan Securities. In 2009 he founded the Columbia Fiction Foundry, a writing workshop under Columbia University’s Office of Alumni and Development. This is his second book.   Jim Brooke is a Berkshires native and lifelong foreign correspondent. He worked as a journalist for eight years in Moscow, first as Bloomberg Bureau Chief, then as the Voice of America correspondent for the former Soviet Union.