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 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 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 Read more Rick Perlstein on Ronald Reagan, with Kai Bird 09/15/2020 06:00 PM Rick Perlstein discusses Reaganland, his latest book on the emerging dominance of conservatism in U.S. politics, with Kai Bird, Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center Read more Eddie S. Glaude Jr. on James Baldwin, with Nicholas Boggs 09/10/2020 06:00 PM Eddie S. Glaude Jr. on Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, in conversation with Nicholas Boggs, a current Leon Levy Fellow who is working on a biography of Baldwin Read more Samanth Subramanian on JBS Haldane, with Carl Zimmer 08/13/2020 06:00 PM Former Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellow Samanth Subramanian on JBS Haldane, in conversation with New York Times columnist Carl Zimmer Read more