ERIK O. RONNINGEN
INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER & AUTHOR

Chapel Speaker

My first official 9/11 speaking engagement on February 17, 2002 at my Alma Mater, Valley Forge Military Academy

Chapel Speaker

Chapel Speaker

It has been only five months since 9/11, and I still look a little dazed!

The Book

Inspired late the evening of 9/12/2001 talking about my near demise with my wife, Sarah, when the thought was put into my head, "Write a book"

Agent & Author

My old friend, classmate, and agent, Greg Oviatt, shake hands at BookExpoAmerica 2013, the official launch of my book - also launching my speaking engagements

1st Book Signing

At my publisher, Welcome Rain's Fifth Avenue offices, signing and inscribing books to all who helped me with this endeavor

WBAI 99.5fm

WBAI talkback New York Radio interview with Malachy McCourt

Radio Interview

The LawBusiness Insider interview

PS 246 Poe School

Speaking about my day on 9/11, down at the 9/11 Memorial with the fifth grade classes

PS 246 Poe School

Fifth grader's group photo at the South Tower Pool

Patriot Day Concert

Keynote speech at the 9/11/2009 Lebanon Valley Chamber of Commerce Patriot Day Concert

Patriot Day Concert

1500 in the audience. Photo from their local newspaper

71st Floor New Tower

Signing the concrete wall on the 71st floor of the new Freedom Tower

High School Seniors

Speaking before the senior's history class of Life Center Academy, Burlington, NJ

FOX 5 GDNY Interview

FOX 5 TV Interview

FOX 5 Good Day New York hosts, Greg Kelly and Rosanna Scotta, interviewing Erik and Rebecca

COME FROM AWAY

Making its bones at the Ford Theater in Washington, D.C. before making it BIG in NYC, they discovered I was a 9/11 survivor and asked permission to interview me

Ella Dickey Award

Giving my acceptance speech for receiving the coveted Ella Dickey Literary Award for history

Ella Dickey Award

Erik & Laura Bush. I presented two autographed, inscribed copies of my book, one to Laura and the other to her husband, President Bush

B&N Book Signing

An aspiring author asking for advice and a photograph at the Barnes & Noble store in Springfield, MO