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Please join us as author Nicholas Gage speaks about his life as a Greek immigrant and his development as a writer. A reception and book signing will follow. Nicholas Gage, a Boston University graduate (COM ’63, HON ’85), is a Greek American author and investigative journalist. Born Nicholas Gatzoyiannis in a remote Greek village in 1939, Gage fled to the United States ten years later with his sisters, after his mother was executed during the Greek Civil War. He is most famous for two books of autobiographical memoirs, the best selling Eleni and A Place for Us. In Eleni, Gage used the skills he learned as an investigative reporter to tell how his mother arranged for her children to escape from their village, how she was tortured and executed in retribution by the guerrillas occupying it, and how he hunted down her killers thirty years later. Eleni was made into a feature film starring John Malkovich as Gage. A Place for Us relates the Gage family’s experiences as immigrants in 1950s America in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. As a reporter for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press, Gage received wide recognition for his investigative articles on organized crime, drug trafficking and political corruption. Abroad, he has covered numerous wars and revolutions, including the Iranian uprising that toppled the Shah. Gage has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize six times and has received numerous awards for his reporting. His most recent book is Greek Fire, an account of the relationship between Aristotle Onassis and opera singer Maria Callas. In 1985, an endowed scholarship fund in honor of his mother Eleni Gatzoyiannis – a gift from Nicholas Gage - was established at Boston University.