Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist to Speak at AAOS Meeting

Conservative newspaper columnist, essayist and author George F.Will, Ph.D., will address clinicians attending this year’s American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif. His speech is slated for Thursday, Feb. 9.

Will’s newspaper columns are renowned for their hard-hitting analyses of domestic and foreign politics and policy. His twice-weekly column in The Washington Post has been syndicated since 1974 and appears in more than 400 newspapers throughout the United States and Europe, according to a brief biography published in AAOSNow, a monthly journal published by the AAOS. He also was a contributing editor for Newsweek for 34 years, writing a bimonthly essay from 1976 through 2010.In addition, he is a founding panel member of ABC television’s Sunday morning show “This Week,”his AAOSNow biography states.

Will’s writing accolades include a 1977 Pulitzer Price for commentary, a 1978 National Headliners Award (for “consistently outstanding special features columns” in Newsweek), and a 1980 Silurian Award for editorial writing. He also was named “Best Writer, Any Subject” by the Washington Journalism Review (now the American Journalism Review) in 1985.

Will has written various books on politics and two best-sellers on baseball – “Bunts:Pete Rose, Curt Flood,Camden Yards and Other Reflections on Baseball” and “Men at Work:The Craft of Baseball.”

The AAOSNow profile lists Will’s hometown as Champaign, Ill. He attended Trinity College inHartford,Conn., Oxford University (in the United Kingdom), and Princeton University in Princeton,N.J. He taught political philosophy at Michigan State University, the University of Toronto and Harvard University.

Will was a staff member in the U.S. Senate from 1970 to 1972, and he served as editor of National Review magazine from 1973 to 1976. He currently resides inWashington,D.C.

Will’s address will take place at 11 a.m. on Feb. 9 in the Gateway Ballroom of the Moscone Center South.