Tracy Lee Simmons has been a working journalist, editor, and writer for over 20 years. He attended the University of Virginia, the University of Cincinnati, and holds a Master’s Degree in Classics from Oxford. He has written for newspapers, magazines, and journals ranging as widely as The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard,American Enterprise, The New Criterion, and The Sewanee Review, and he once served as an Associate Editor for National Review under William F. Buckley, Jr. He published Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin in 2002, which won a Choice Award for “Outstanding Academic Title” for that year. He continues to write regularly on literary, historical, and cultural topics. For part of each year he serves as Director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College.

Join Tracy Lee Simmons as this year's Rettig Lecture speaker for his talk, "Coming Down from Parnassus: Living with a Classical Education."

Saturday, 10/3, 4:00 in the Conaton Board Room, Schmidt Hall. Reception to follow. Open to the public.