10/21 – David S. Reynolds on Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times – with Harold Holzer
David S. Reynolds understands the currents in which Abraham Lincoln swam as well as anyone alive. His magisterial biography Abe is the product of full-body immersion into the riotous tumult of American life in the decades before the Civil War. It was a country growing...10/19 – BIO’s Coaches Answer First-Time Biographers’ Questions about Research and Writing (Biographers International Organization event)
Three accomplished biographers who have worked with other BIO (Biographers International Organization) members to help bring their biographies to life answer your questions about research and writing. What challenges are you facing? What would you like expert advice...On-Line Global Research Tactics for the Twenty-First Century (zoom series)
Please join us for a new series of ad-hoc seminars to explore freely-accessible on-line digital collections with archivists internationally. In the COVID and post-pandemic world, more primary-document research will be conducted via remote devices using new techniques....10/6 – Hernan Diaz (Hunter MFA Distinguished Writers Series, Fall 2020)
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Hernan Diaz has published stories and essays in Cabinet, The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. His first novel, In the Distance, was the winner of the Saroyan...9/17 – Alex Halberstadt (Hunter MFA Distinguished Writers Series, Fall 2020)
There have been stacks of great reviews to quote from but we choose the celebrated writer John Jeremiah Sullivan, to sum up the magic Halberstadt has wrought. “I remember being in a bar with Alex Halberstadt almost twenty years ago, talking about our families,...Looking for M.A. Program in Biography and Memoir information?
To find out more about the program, visit our Graduate Center site here – www.gc.cuny.edu/BAM
