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 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 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