10-19 | Meet the Author – Roger Thurow

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A searing examination of America’s most enduring contradiction: Hunger in the land of great abundance. As a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Roger Thurow wrote about the devastating impact of food crises in some of the world’s poorest places. Now, in Abiding Hunger, he brings that experience home to confront a crisis hiding in plain sight. How can nearly 50 million Americans go hungry in the wealthiest, mightiest, most abundant country on earth? To answer that questions, Thurow traces hunger’s long American history and its lasting consequences: from the Starving Time in colonial Jamestown, the destruction of Native American food traditions and the Trail of Tears, slavery, Jim Crow segregation, the systemic discrimination that drove Black farmers to the brink of extinction, the hollowing out of rural America, to the miles-long food bank lines of the Covid pandemic. In tour-de-force reporting, Thurow exposes the “hidden hunger” touching every community in the nation which has 14 percent of American households, sometime during the year, facing heartbreaking choices between paying for food or paying the rent, utilities, or overdue medical bills. At the same time, he highlights the enormous efforts and innovations of those who strive to nourish their neighbors each day, and the national initiatives that could help millions. Abiding Hunger is an urgent reckoning with America’s most vexing paradox and what it will take to finally end it. Roger Thurow is a journalist and author who writes about the persistence of hunger and malnutrition in our world. He was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for thirty years, twenty of them as a foreign correspondent based in Europe and Africa. He is, with Scott Kilman, the author of Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, which won the Harry Chapin WhyHunger book award. Thurow is also the author of The Last Hunger Season, The First 1,000 Days, and Against the Grain. He is a graduate of the…

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