Bestselling Author Andrew Carroll Joins Panel

Arlington, VA – The GI Film Festival announced today that New York Times bestselling author Andrew Carroll will participate in the festival’s “War Stories” panel discussion, which will feature tales of heroism from the front lines.

Carroll is the editor of several New York Times bestselling books, including Letters of a Nation, Behind the Lines, and War Letters, which was made into a PBS documentary. Carroll was recently selected by the National Endowment for the Arts to edit the book, Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families (Random House; 2006), based on the NEA’s national initiative of the same name.

Carroll is the founder and director of the Legacy Project, a national, all-volunteer initiative that seeks out historically significant letters and e-mails written in times of war. To date, the Legacy Project has received an estimated 75,000 never-before-seen correspondence from every military conflict in American history.

Carroll’s efforts have been profiled on Oprah, NBC's Nightly News, FOX News, CNN, and The History Channel, among other national programs. He has been a contributing editor and/or writer to many local and national publications, including Time, the New Yorker, and National Geographic and is a recipient of the Daughter of the American Revolution’s “Medal of Honor” award.

For more information on Andrew Carroll and the Legacy Project, please visit www.warletters.com.

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