American Made: Conversation with Farah Stockman

Join Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Farah Stockman for a conversation about her book American Made: What Happens to People when Work Disappears, which investigates the impact of an Indiana factory closure.

What happens when Americans lose their jobs?  In American Made, an illuminating story of ruin and reinvention, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Farah Stockman gives an up-close look at the profound role work plays in our sense of identity and belonging, as she follows three Indiana workers whose lives unravel when the factory they have dedicated so much to closes down.

Journalist Farah Stockman will visit the Carmel Clay Public Library on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 from 6-7:30 pm, where she will participate in a public conversation. Tickets are free but registration is required.

Farah Stockman joined the New York Times editorial board in 2020 after covering politics, social movements, and race for the national desk. She previously spent sixteen years at the Boston Globe, nearly half of that time as the paper’s foreign policy reporter in Washington, D.C. She has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, South Sudan, Rwanda, and Guantánamo Bay. She also served as a columnist and an editorial board member at the Globe. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for a series of columns about the efforts to desegregate Boston’s schools. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but also spends time in Michigan.