Sycamore writer Dirk Johnson has been selected among featured authors to speak at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest.
Johnson is co-author, with Robert Owen Carr, of the new book, “Working Class to College: The Promise and Peril Facing Blue-Collar America.”
A discussion with Johnson will be led by Jodi Cohen, a Tribune writer and former Illinois Journalist of the Year, at 4 p.m. June 10 at Jones College Prep, room 4038, 700 S. State St., Chicago.
"Working Class," a nonfiction book, is distributed by the University of Illinois Press and can be purchased through Amazon. Ticket availability and other information about Lit Fest, a two-day literary extravaganza in downtown Chicago, is available at www.printersrowlitfest.org.