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 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 Governor Jerry Brown in Conversation with Author Miriam Pawel: The Browns of California 09/25/2018 06:30 PM Governor Jerry Brown will be on stage to discuss his life and family saga with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Miriam Pawel, author of The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty That... Read more Claire Tomalin: A Life of My Own 09/24/2018 06:30 PM Claire Tomalin has written about great authors—Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, and Mary Wollstonecraft—to huge success. Now she looks at her own life in an enthralling memoir. Tomalin... Read more Jeffrey Stewart on Alain Locke 09/21/2018 06:30 PM Jeffrey Stewart in conversation about The New Negro: Alain Locke with two-time Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer David Levering Lewis Read more Kai Bird moderating panel at National Book Festival 09/01/2018 09:39 AM Executive Director Kai Bird moderates at panel entitled "Spies & Biography." The panelists are Adam Sisman, Joseph Kanon and David Ignatius. 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