Event Date: 3/18/2013 1:00:00 PM
1pm - 2pm: 'Writing the American Renaissance.' John Matteson (
The Lives of Margaret Fuller), moderator. Jeffrey Cramer (
The Portable Thoreau, ed.), Megan Marshall (
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life), David S. Reynolds (
Walt Whitman's America).
2:15pm - 3:15pm: 'Writing Jewish Lives.' Ruth Franklin (
Shirley Jackson), moderator. Greg Bellow (
Saul Bellow's Heart), Joshua Rubenstein (
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life), Steve Weitzman (
Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom). Co-sponsored by the Jewish Lives series of Yale University Press.
3:30pm - 4:30pm: Hermione Lee (
Virginia Woolf) in Conversation with Gary Giddins (
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams).
[coffee break]
5pm - 6pm: 'American Modernists.' Carol Sklenicka (
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life), moderator. Blake Bailey (
Cheever: A Life), Alice Kessler-Harris (
A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman), Richard Lingeman (
American Journey: Theodore Dreiser).
6:15pm - 7:15pm: 'Founding Fathers as Literary Figures.' Annette Gordon-Reed (
The Hemingses of Monticello), moderator. R.B. Bernstein (
Thomas Jefferson), Eric Foner (
Tom Paine and Revolutionary America), Peter Onuf (
The Mind of Thomas Jefferson).
Date:
March 18, 2013
Time:
1:00 PM
–
7:15 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan
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Phone:
212-817-2008
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