Desert Days: My Life as a Field Archaeologist by Fred Wendorf

FRED WENDORF will give a talk on his new book, "Desert Days: My Life as a Field Archaeologist" at this reception, lecture and book-signing co-sponsored by SMU Press, Colphon/Friends of the SMU Libraries, the Clements Center for Southwest Studies and the DeGolyer Library at SMU. Wendorf is the Henderson-Morrison Professor of Prehistory Emeritus, Southern Methodist University. He grew up in Terrell, Texas, was wounded as a lieutenant serving in Italy during World War II, received his Ph.D. from Harvard, and spent more than sixty years as a field archaeologist in this country and in Africa. In 1987 he was elected to the American National Academy of Sciences.