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 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 David Yaffe on Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell 12/13/2017 06:30 PM David Yaffe discusses "Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell" with Eric Banks Read more Vanda Krefft on William Fox 12/01/2017 06:30 PM Former Leon Levy Biography Fellow Vanda Krefft will discuss her new biography, "The Man Who Made the Movies: the Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox." Krefft's groundbreaking biography... Read more Mary Dearborn, first woman biographer of Hemingway 11/01/2017 06:30 PM Mary Dearborn, first woman biographer of Hemingway, in conversation with Amanda Vaill about Hemingway: A Biography Read more James Atlas: The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale 10/23/2017 06:30 PM James Atlas in conversation with Kai Bird about his memoir, The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale James Atlas, the celebrated chronicler of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz, takes us back... Read more