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 12345678910... Next Peniel E. Joseph on MLK and Malcolm X, with David Levering Lewis 11/19/2020 06:00 PM Peniel E. Joseph discusses his dual biography of MLK and Malcolm X, The Sword and the Shield, with Pulitzer Prize-winner David Levering Lewis Read more Justin Gifford on Eldridge Cleaver, in conversation with TBA 10/29/2020 06:00 PM Justin Gifford on Eldridge Cleaver, in conversation with TBA Read more Heather Clark on Sylvia Plath, with Ruth Franklin 10/21/2020 06:00 PM Heather Clark discusses her highly anticipated new biography of Sylvia Plath, Red Comet, with Ruth Franklin, author of award-winning biography of Shirley Jackson, A Rather Haunted Life. Both are... Read more Larry Tye on Joe McCarthy, with Victor Navasky & Kai Bird 10/15/2020 06:00 PM Larry Tye on Demagogue: the Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy, in conversation with Victor Navasky and Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, Kai Bird Read more David S. Reynolds on Abraham Lincoln, with James Oakes 10/13/2020 06:00 PM David S. Reynolds, Distinguished Professor at The Graduate Center, discusses Abe, his biography of Abraham Lincoln, with Professor of History James Oakes Read more Fredrik Logevall on JFK, with David Nasaw 10/06/2020 06:00 PM Fredrik Logevall on JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956, in conversation with David Nasaw, emeritus Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at The Graduate Center, CUNY Read more Sudhir Hazareesingh on Toussaint Louverture, with Amy Wilentz 10/01/2020 02:00 PM Sudhir Hazareesingh on Toussaint Louverture, in conversation with Amy Wilentz Read more Carl Rollyson on William Faulkner, with Anne Heller 09/24/2020 06:00 PM Carl Rollyson on William Faulkner, in conversation with Anne Heller Read more Judith Thurman delivers Annual Leon Levy Lecture on Biography 09/22/2020 06:00 PM The Thirtheenth Annual Leon Levy Lecture on Biography delivered by Judith Thurman, award-winning biographer of Colette and Isak Dinesen. Read more David Nasaw on The Last Million, with Peter Beinart 09/17/2020 06:00 PM Graduate Center Professor Emeritus David Nasaw on The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War, in conversation with political commentator Peter Beinart. From NYT: https... Read more