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 1234567 Next 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 Gary Giddins on Bing Crosby: In Conversation with Harry Crosby 11/13/2018 06:30 PM On the publication of Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946, biographer Gary Giddins joins in conversation with Bing’s son Harry Crosby Read more Zachary Leader on Saul Bellow with Martin Amis 11/12/2018 07:00 PM Please join us for Zachary Leader, in conversation with Martin Amis, on the second volume of Leader's two-volume biography of Bellow, Love & Strife: 1965 - 2005. Read more Cathy Curtis on Elaine de Kooning, with Claudia Roth Pierpont 11/09/2018 06:30 AM Cathy Curtis discusses her A Generous Vision: the Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning, with Claudia Roth Pierpont, staff writer for the New Yorker Read more Ben MacIntyre on The Spy and the Traitor in conversation with Kai Bird 10/17/2018 06:30 PM Ben MacIntyre on The Spy and the Traitor, his biography of Russian double-agent Oleg Gordievsky. In conversation with Kai Bird. Read more Seymour M. Hersh: Reporter 10/12/2018 06:30 PM Seymour M. Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and leading investigative journalist of our time, speaks about his new memoir with Kai Bird, executive director of the Leon Levy Center for... Read more Arnold Offner on Hubert Humphrey with Kai Bird 10/03/2018 06:30 PM Arnold Offner discusses his biography Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country with Kai Bird Read more Geoffrey C. Ward: The Biographer’s Dilemma—Searching for the Known and Unknowable 09/27/2018 06:30 PM Geoffrey C. Ward—a historian, biographer, and screenwriter who has collaborated with filmmaker Ken Burns throughout his career—gives this annual talk on writing and researching biography. Read more Michael Frayn & his Career in the Theatre 09/25/2018 06:30 PM Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn, author of sixteen plays, including Noises Off, Copenhagen and Democracy, in conversation with Frank Hentschker, Executive Director and Director of Programs at... Read more