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 Richard Aldous, biographer of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in conversation with David Nasaw 10/16/2017 06:30 PM Richard Aldous, biographer of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in conversation with David Nasaw. Aldous’s book is the first major biography of this preeminent historian and intellectual. Arthur Schlesinger... Read more A Life with MLK — The Perils of Biographical History: Taylor Branch 09/27/2017 06:30 PM Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a landmark trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and history of the Civil Rights Movement, gives this annual talk on the process of... Read more Leon Levy Lecture by Taylor Branch 09/27/2017 06:30 PM Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Taylor Branch will deliver the Leon Levy Lecture in Biography. Branch is best known for his landmark trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and... Read more Koh-I-Noor: The Biography of a Diamond 09/18/2017 06:30 PM William Dalrymple & Anita Anand: Koh-I-Noor: The Biography of a Diamond — moderated by Kai Bird. Dalrymple and Anand tell the compelling story of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated and... Read more David J. Garrow on Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama 05/16/2017 06:30 PM Kai Bird interviews Pulitzer-Prize winning historian David J. Garrow about his new book, RISING STAR: THE MAKING OF BARACK OBAMA, the most in-depth portrait yet of the man who would become the 44th... Read more Kafka: The Early Years 11/09/2016 06:30 PM German author Reiner Stach and award-winning translator Shelley Frisch discuss their work on “an eerily immediate portrait of one of literature's most enduring and enigmatic masters” (New York... Read more Biographies by Fellows: Chasin on Harry Anslinger, Franklin on Shirley Jackson 10/19/2016 06:30 PM Biographies by Fellows: Alexandra Chasin on Harry J. Anslinger, Ruth Franklin on Shirley Jackson Read more Leon Levy Biography Lecture: Hermione Lee 09/28/2016 06:30 PM Dame Hermione Lee gives the 9th annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture. She is the biographer of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and most recently Penelope Fitzgerald, and the author of... Read more Ruth Scurr on John Aubrey, My Own Life 09/19/2016 06:30 PM Ruth Scurr in conversation with Brenda Wineapple on John Aubrey, My Own Life, an extraordinary book which reimagines what biography can be. Read more Ruth Scurr on John Aubrey, My Own Life 09/19/2016 06:30 PM Ruth Scurr will be interviewed by Brenda Wineapple on John Aubrey, My Own Life, an extraordinary book about the influential author of Brief Lives. Read more