Chattanooga native Jon Meacham to give commencement address at Ole Miss

March 21, 2017 at 5:23 p.m. | Updated March 21, 2017 at 5:36 p.m.

by Associated Press

Staff File Photo by Tim Barber Area book stores regularly host local and visiting regional and national authors, such as Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek magazine, who speaks to a packed room at Rock Point Books.
Staff File Photo by Tim Barber Area book stores regularly host local and visiting regional and national authors, such as Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek magazine, who speaks to a packed room at Rock Point Books.

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - School officials say Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Jon Meacham will give the spring commencement address at the University of Mississippi.

The university said in a statement that Meacham will speak to graduates and their families at 9 a.m. on May 13 in the Grove on the Oxford campus.

Meacham is a former editor of Newsweek and a contributor to Time and The New York Times Book Review.

Meacham is a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and earned an English literature degree from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

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