For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. Filter by: Keyword search: Category: Leon Levy Center for Biography Sort by: Date, Ascending Date, Descending Title, A-Z Title, Z-A Previous 12345678 Next Brenda Wineapple on Andrew Johnson's impeachment, with Eric Foner 06/03/2019 06:30 PM Brenda Wineapple on The Impeachers: the Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation, in conversation with historian Eric Foner. Read more Robert Caro on his new book, Working, with Kai Bird 05/15/2019 06:30 PM From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro, recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books. In conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer... Read more Colin Asher on Nelson Algren, with Russell Banks 05/08/2019 06:30 PM Former Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellow Colin Asher on Never a Lovely So Real: the Life and Work of Nelson Algren, in conversation with acclaimed novelist Russell Banks. Read more David Blight on Frederick Douglass, in conversation with James Oakes 04/15/2019 06:30 PM Two leading historians of the Civil War era, David Blight (Yale) and James Oakes (The Graduate Center), discuss Blight’s acclaimed biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Read more James Atlas moderates panel: Remembering Philip Roth 04/03/2019 06:30 PM James Atlas moderates Remembering Roth, a panel celebrating the life and work of Philip Roth. The panelists are David Remnick, Claudia Roth Pierpont, Blake Bailey and Judith Thurman Read more Sylvana Paternostro on Solitude & Co: Gabriel Garcia Marquez: a Life, with Cristobal Pera 03/18/2019 06:30 PM Sylvana Paternostro on Solitude & Company: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez Told with Help from His Friends, Family, Fans... in conversation with Cristobal Pera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's editor... Read more Former LLCB Fellow Peter Filkins on H. G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds, moderator Eric Banks 03/06/2019 06:30 PM Former Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellow Peter Filkins on H. G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds, in conversation with Eric Banks, director of the New York Insitute for the Humanities Read more Bridgett M Davis on The World According to Fannie Davis, with Farah Jasmine Griffin 02/15/2019 06:30 PM Bridgett M Davis on her memoir, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers, in conversation with Farah Jasmine Griffin Read more Karin Roffman on John Ashbery with Mary Ann Caws 12/11/2018 06:30 PM Karin Roffman discusses The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Years with renowned scholar and Distinguished Faculty Emerita Mary Ann Caws. Read more Kai Bird and the Leon Levy Center at the Miami Book Fair 11/17/2018 12:00 PM The Leon Levy Center sponsors five events at the Miami Book Fair 2018 Read more