Spring 2021 Virtual Events
Best-Selling Author Events
Best-Selling Author: Jane Smiley | Wednesday, March 3 | 6pm ESTJane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently, The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: Some Luck, Early Warning, and Golden Age. She is also the author of several works of nonfiction and books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California. Photo credit: Derek Shapton |
Best-Selling Author: Ann Patchett in Conversation with Patrick Ryan | Wednesday, April 7 | 6pm ESTAnn Patchett is the author of eight novels, three books of nonfiction, and two children’s books. She is the winner of the PEN/Faulkner, the Women’s Prize for Fiction in the U.K., and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages. She was named byTime magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee. Patrick Ryan is the author of two collections of stories, Send Me and The Dream Life of Astronauts. He is the editor of One Story magazine. To watch Ann and Patrick's program please click here. Photo credit: Heidi Ross (Ann), Koitz (Patrick) |
Best-Selling Author: Maaza Mengiste | Wednesday, May 5 | 6pm ESTMaaza Mengiste is the author of The Shadow King, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, and a recipient of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Award in Literature, as well as a LA Times Books Prize finalist. It was named a Best Book of 2019 by New York Times, NPR, Time, Elle, and other publications. Beneath the Lion's Gaze, her debut, was selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books. To watch Maaza's program, please click here. Photo credit: Nina Subin |
Best-Selling Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford | Wednesday, June 16 | 5:45pm ESTBarbara Taylor Bradford, O.B.E., one of the world’s most popular and prolific authors, has written 38 best-selling novels. Her first, A Woman of Substance, has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, and is on the ten-book list of the biggest-selling novels of all time. It is still selling today, and was a huge success as a TV mini-series. To watch this program, please click here. Photo credit: Larry Marano |
Great Thinker Events
Great Thinker: Howard Gardner | Wednesday, February 3 | 6pm ESTHoward Gardner is the Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has studied and written extensively about intelligence, creativity, leadership, and professional ethics, and is the senior director of Project Zero and co-founder of the Good Project. Among his current research undertakings is a national investigation of liberal arts and sciences in the United States in the 21st century. His intellectual memoir, A Synthesizing Mind, was published September 2020. To watch Howard's program, please click here. Photo credit: Harvard Graduate School of Education |