Author Todd DePastino (right) speaks with Ron Jacobson, Ph.D., associate vice president for academic affairs and executive director of academic programs at Fordham Westchester, before the Sperber Prize ceremony on Nov. 23 at the Lowenstein Center.
DePastino received the Ann M. Sperber Prize for biography for his book, Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front(W.W. Norton, 2008). The prize is given by Fordham to an author of a biography or autobiography of a journalist or other media figure.