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 123456 Next David Levering Lewis on Wendel Willkie 09/20/2018 06:30 PM From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner comes this surprising portrait of Wendell Willkie, the businessman–turned–presidential candidate who (almost) saved America’s dysfunctional political system. Read more BIO International Conference 05/19/2018 08:00 AM BIO welcomes biographers, editors, agents, publishers, and publicity professionals from around the world to the Ninth Annual Biographers International Conference. BIO is honored to partner with... Read more Anshel Pfeffer on Benjamin Netanyahu, in conversation with Eric Alterman 05/08/2018 06:30 PM Anshel Pfeffer discusses his Bibi: the Turbulent Life and Times of Bibi Netanyahu with Eric Alterman, author of When Presidents Lie Read more Jimmy Carter in the White House: A Talk with Biographer Stuart E. Eizenstat 04/27/2018 06:30 PM Stuart E. Eizenstat's new book, President Carter: The White House Years, gives an insider’s look at the achievements and missteps of an often-misunderstood presidency. Eizenstat joins in... Read more Michael Massing on Luther and Erasmus, moderated by Todd Gitlin 03/26/2018 06:30 PM Michael Massing discusses, Fatal Discord, his dual biography of Luther and Erasmus with Todd Gitlin. Read more The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy 03/21/2018 06:30 PM Author Justin Spring speaks with Jennifer Steinhauer of The New York Times about his new book, The Gourmands' Way. Read more Thad Ziolkowski moderates Rock biography panel at the Montclair Literary Festival 03/17/2018 04:00 PM LLCB Associate Director Thad Ziolkowski leads conversation with Joe Hagan (Jann Wenner), David Yaffe (Joni Mitchell), Warren Zanes (Tom Petty), and Deborah Davis, who is co-writing Tina Turner’s... Read more Chris Kraus on Kathy Acker, moderated by Thad Ziolkowski 03/15/2018 06:30 PM In this first, fully authorized biography, Chris Kraus approaches postmodern literary phenomenon Kathy Acker both as a writer and as a member of the artistic communities from which she emerged. Read more Max Boot on Edward Lansdale, moderated by Kai Bird 02/21/2018 06:30 PM Max Boot will be in conversation with Kai Bird about Boot's The Road Not Taken, his epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908– 1987), the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene’s The... Read more Stephen Kotkin on Joseph Stalin 02/07/2018 06:30 PM Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal... Read more