MONMOUTH, Ill. — Author Adam Gopnik, a staff writer for The New Yorker, will deliver the next lecture in Monmouth College’s “Darwinpalooza” series on Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. in the Whiteman-McMillan room in the Stockdale Center.

Titled “Darwin & Lincoln: True and False,” the talk is free and open to the public. While on campus, Gopnik will also address the “Introduction to Liberal Arts” first-year seminar. That lecture, which will be given on Oct. 8 at 11 a.m. in the Dahl Chapel and Auditorium, is titled “Darwin in Time.”

Gopnik’s latest work, “Angels & Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life,” looks at the birth of the modern era through the lives of these two extraordinary people who were born within hours of each other on Feb. 12, 1809. Searching for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution, Gopnik reveals them as both ordinary family men with ambitions, faults and loves and as great thinkers who helped shape the modern world – a world increasingly governed by reason, argument and observation, by the verdicts of time and history.

Raised in Montreal where he studied art history at McGill University, Gopnik began his long professional association with The New Yorker in 1986 with a piece that would show his future range, a consideration of connections between baseball, childhood and Renaissance art. His work for the magazine has won both the National Magazine Award for Essay and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting.

Gopnik is the author of two previous bestsellers, “Paris to the Moon” and “Through the Children’s Gate.”