{"id":25363,"date":"2023-04-28T13:38:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T17:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=25363"},"modified":"2023-04-28T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T17:38:12","slug":"author-homer-hickam-to-speak-at-marshall-may-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/author-homer-hickam-to-speak-at-marshall-may-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Homer Hickam to speak at Marshall May 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Homer Hickam, the bestselling author of <em>Rocket Boys<\/em>, which was the basis for the movie <em>October Sky<\/em>, will appear on Marshall University\u2019s Huntington campus Thursday, May 4. An invitation-only reception and lecture will take place beginning at 4:30 p.m., but the community is invited to an open lecture at 6 p.m. in room BE-5 of the Memorial Student Center.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rocket Boys <\/em>\u00a0was first published in 1998 and has been called a modern American classic of literature. It has been translated into over two dozen languages and is the most-read book in U.S. public schools, surpassing <em>To Kill A Mockingbird.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hickam is a decorated Vietnam veteran, retired NASA engineer and astronaut trainer. He has written 20 books, including memoirs, historical fiction, young adult sci-fi and thrillers. He has spoken all over the world, inspiring millions to \u201cAim High.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>October Sky,<\/em> the hit Universal Studios film, starred Chris Cooper, Laura Dern and Jake Gyllenhaal as Homer.<\/p>\n<p>The evening event on May 4 is free and open to the public, but persons are asked to make reservations by e-mailing <a href=\"mailto:watters4@marshall.edu\">watters4@marshall.edu<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homer Hickam, the bestselling author of Rocket Boys, which was the basis for the movie October Sky, will appear on Marshall University\u2019s Huntington campus Thursday, May 4. An invitation-only reception and lecture will take place beginning at 4:30 p.m., but the community is invited to an open lecture at 6 p.m. in room BE-5 of the Memorial Student Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":25364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,45,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coepd","category-featured","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25365,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25363\/revisions\/25365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}