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 James Kaplan on Sinatra: The Chairman 12/02/2015 06:30 PM Gary Giddins interviews James Kaplan on his new biography Sinatra: The Chairman, the sequel to his 2010 bestseller Frank: The Voice. Sinatra needs no introduction; after Kaplan’s remarkable work... Read more Zachary Leader and Phyllis Rose in Conversation with Gary Giddins 11/02/2015 06:30 PM Giddins interviews Zachary Leader, biographer of Kingsley Amis and Saul Bellow, and editor of On Life-Writing; and Phyllis Rose, author of Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages and the literary... Read more Biographies by Fellows: Newkirk on Ota Benga, Roberts on John Conway 10/19/2015 06:30 PM Celebrate two books by former fellows of the Leon Levy Center for Biography: Pamela Newkirk's "Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga" (Amistad); and Siobhan Roberts's "Genius: The Curious... Read more Leon Levy Biography Lecture: Brenda Wineapple 10/05/2015 06:30 PM 8th annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture: Brenda Wineapple, "The Rosebud Effect: Mystery in Biography" Read more The 25th Anniversary of Women Writing Women's Lives 10/02/2015 09:00 AM The 25th Anniversary of Women Writing Women's Lives Read more Biographies by Fellows: Hammer on James Merrill, Ehrlich on Eduardo Chibas 05/12/2015 06:30 PM Celebrate two books by former fellows of the Leon Levy Center for Biography: Langdon Hammer's "James Merrill: Life and Art" (Knopf), which The New Yorker calls an "extraordinary biography"; and... Read more Coming of Age in Midcentury America: Morris Dickstein and Gary Giddins 03/18/2015 06:30 PM Cultural historian Morris Dickstein discusses his new memoir, Why Not Say What Happened, with critic and biographer Gary Giddins. Read more William P. Kelly in Conversation on Whitman and Crane 02/24/2015 06:30 PM William P. Kelly in conversation with Justin Martin and Paul Sorrentino on biographies of Walt Whitman and Stephen Crane. Read more Cosby, Pryor, and the Biography of African-American Comedy 12/15/2014 06:30 PM Cosby, Pryor, and the Biography of African-American Comedy: Gary Giddins in Conversation with Scott Saul, Mel Watkins, and Mark Whitaker Read more A. Scott Berg in Conversation with Gary Giddins 10/21/2014 06:30 PM A. Scott Berg in Conversation with Gary Giddins Read more