Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series – Ray Boomhower

Award-winning author and historian Ray E. Boomhower will join us to explore the life of Ernie Pyle from his boyhood home in Dana, Indiana, to his experience as a roving correspondent with the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, to his growing fame as a columnist detailing the rigors of combat faced by the average GI during World War II. Ray Boomhower is the senior editor of the Indiana Historical Society Press, where he edits the popular quarterly history magazine Traces of Indiana & Midwestern History. His twenty published books have covered other notable Hoosiers, including Benjamin Harrison, Gus Grissom, and Lew Wallace, among others.