293nd Annual Dinner Featuring Dr. Craig L. Symonds

The Library Company of Philadelphia has been gathering for an annual dinner since our founding in 1731. To learn more about this year’s event and available sponsorship opportunities, please contact the Development Office at development@librarycompany.org or 215-546-3181 ext. 118.

293rd Annual Dinner – Featuring Dr. Craig L. Symonds
Monday, October 28, 2024

Presented In-Person
The Down Town Club by Cescaphe
600 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

This year, we are pleased to be featuring Dr. Craig L. Symonds discussing his most recent book, Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay.

Dr. Craig L. Symonds is Professor Emeritus of History at the United States Naval Academy, where he taught for thirty years. From 2017 to 2020 he was the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the U.S. Naval War College. He is the author of seventeen books, the most recent of which is Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (Oxford University Press, 2022). He has been awarded the Lincoln Prize, the Roosevelt Prize, the Morison Prize, and the Barondess Prize, as well as the Dudley Knox Medal for Lifetime Achievement and the Pritzker Military Museum & Library Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. He and his wife Marylou live in Annapolis, Maryland.

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