Best-Selling Author Series

Hear today's top-selling authors discuss literature, success, and their latest best-selling works. A question and answer session, plus a book-signing and reception will follow each lecture.

Stacy Schiff - January 12, 2012

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

Stacy Schiff is an author and scholar. Her books Véra and Cleopatra: A Life have both won Pulitzer Prizes while Saint-Exupéry was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Her book A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America was a winner of the George Washington Book Prize.

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Alice McDermott - February 28, 2012

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

Alice McDermott is the author of Charming Billy which was the recipient of the 1998 National Book Award. She is also the author of That Night and At Weddings and Wakes, both of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.

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Alan Furst - March 27, 2012

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

Alan Furst is one of the greatest writers of espionage novels set in the WWII period. His bestselling books include Night Soldiers, The Foreign Correspondent, and Dark Voyage. Furst’s most recent effort is Spies of the Balkans.

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Susan Isaacs - April 24, 2012

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

Susan Isaacs is an American novelist and screenwriter. Beginning with her blockbuster novel Compromising Positions which was made into a film starring Susan Sarandon and Raul Julia, she went on to produce a string of best-sellers including Lily White, and As Husbands Go.

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Stuart Woods - May 21, 2012

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

Stuart Woods has produced twenty-eight straight bestsellers on The New York Times list.  For his novel, Chiefs, he was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe prize from the Mystery Writers of America, and he was later nominated again for Palindrome. Woods was also awarded France's “Prix de Literature Policiere” for Imperfect Strangers.

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Great Thinkers of Our Time

The Great Thinkers of Our Time series brings brilliant speakers from the worlds of science, philosophy, psychology, and the arts together to Hunter College. A question and answer session, plus a book-signing and reception will follow each lecture.

Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein - February 17, 2012

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and linguist. He is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and the author of seven books, including The Language Instinct, and most recently, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature. 

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a summa cum laude graduate of Barnard College, a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University, and a MacArthur Fellow. Goldstein is the author of The Mind Body Problem, and her most recent Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction.

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John Donoghue  - April 3, 2012

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

John Donoghue is currently the director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science. Donoghue received a Jacob Javits Award from the NIH and won Germany’s Zulch Prize in 2007 for his research. He is the developer of BrainGate and is also a co-founder of Cyberkinetics, a startup company developing neurotechnologies for humans with paralysis and nervous system injuries.

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Seth Lloyd - April 16, 2012

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

Seth Lloyd is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  In his book, Programming the Universe, Lloyd contends that the universe itself is one big quantum computer producing what we see around us, and ourselves, as it runs a cosmic program.

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Lisa Randall - May 3, 2012

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

Lisa Randall studies particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University. With Raman Sundrum she developed the Randall-Sundrum model. Her work has improved our understanding of baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter, and she is an expert on the workings of the Great Hadron Collider. Randall has written two books, Warped Passages, and her most recent Knocking on Heaven’s Door. 

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Special Evening Events

An Evening with David Patrick Columbia - March 5, 2012

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

David Patrick Columbia New York’s social arbiter-in-chief is a writer, actor, and cultural observer. He is the editor of Quest magazine, and The New York Social Diary, which chronicles the lives of Manhattan’s upper crust.

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An Evening with the Kleiers – April 12, 2012  

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

Michele, Sabrina, and Samantha Kleier, are the hosts of the hit HGTV show “Selling New York” and owners of one of New York’s most powerful real estate firms, Gumley, Haft, Kleier. Together they wrote the best-selling novel Hot Property.

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