April 6, 2016
Quincy College to host author Stephen Kurkjian
By: Quincy Sun Staff
April 7, 2016

Quincy College Quincy Campus will host a “Meet the Author Night” event featuring Stephen Kurkjian, Monday April 11 from 7:00pm to 9:30pm at the Thomas Crane Public Library, 40 Washington St, Quincy. Kurkjian is the author of Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off The World’s Greatest Art Heist. This event is free and open to the public.

It is a case defined by superlatives – the largest art theft in history, carrying theworld’s largest reward offer, longer on the FBI’s list of biggest unsolved art crimesthan any other save one. Two men disguised as Boston Police officers trick their
way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum after midnight, tie up the twonight watchmen and make off with an estimated half billion dollars worth of artwork including three works by Rembrandt and a Vermeer masterpiece.

Now 25 years after the theft, Stephen Kurkjian who was the principal reporter onthe case for The Boston Globe for years, has written a gripping account of the still-unsolved heist of a quarter century ago in Master Thieves.

A Boston native, Stephen A. Kurkjian spent 37 years as an editor and reporter for The Boston Globe before retiring in 2007. During his career, he shared in three Pulitzer Prizes and won more than 20 regional and other national awards. Globe columnist Brian McGrory once called him the “most feared and respected” reporter in New England.

Kurkjian was a founding member of The Globe’s investigative Spotlight Team, andits editor for 1979-1986. In 1986, he was named chief of The Globe’s Washington Bureau for six years oversaw the work of the paper’s 10 reporters in Washington. In addition, while at the bureau he covered the Supreme Court, the Justice Department and the Bush White House during the first war in Iraq.

A question and answer session will follow the Quincy College Meet the Author reading. Reservations are recommended but not required; to reserve your seat for the Quincy College Meet the Author event, visit: http://masterthievesqcauthornight.eventbrite.com.