Best Selling Author Series

A.M. Homes

January 14, 2013 | 7:00pm | Faculty Dining Room, West Building 8th Floor
A.M. Homes is the author of the novels, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music For Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the short-story collections, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects. Her work has been translated into twenty-two languages and appears frequently in Art Forum, Harpers, Granta, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Zoetrope. She is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, Bomb and Blind Spot.
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Lee Child

March 6, 2013 | 7:00pm | Faculty Dining Room, West Building 8th Floor
Lee Child had an eighteen-year career as a presentation director for Granada Television in Manchester during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. Always a voracious reader, he decided to sit down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series. The series has since become a worldwide sensation; the first Jack Reacher movie starring Tom Cruise comes out December 2012.
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Yiyun Li

April 15, 2013 | 7:00pm | Faculty Dining Room, West Building 8th Floor
Yiyun Li has had stories and essays published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and O Henry Prize Stories. Her novel, The Vagrants, won the gold medal of California Book Award for fiction. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She is a MacArthur Foundation fellow.
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Steve Berry

May 20, 2013 | 7:00pm | Faculty Dining Room, West Building 8th Floor
Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Columbus Affair, The Jefferson Key, The Emperor's Tomb, The Paris Vendetta, The Charlemagne Pursuit, The Venetian Betrayal, The Alexandria Link, The Templar Legacy, The Third Secret, The Romanov Prophecy, and The Amber Room. His books have been translated into 40 languages with more than 14 million printed copies in 51 countries.
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Great Thinkers of our Time Series

Lewis Lapham

February 19, 2013 | 7:00pm | Faculty Dining Room, West Building 8th Floor
Lewis Lapham is editor of Lapham's Quarterly. Formerly editor of Harper's Magazine, he is the author of numerous books, including Money and Class in America, Theater of War, Gag Rule, and, most recently, Pretensions to Empire. The New York Times has likened him to H.L. Mencken; Vanity Fair has suggested a strong resemblance to Mark Twain; and Tom Wolfe has compared him to Montaigne.
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Edward Witten

March 4, 2013 | 7:00pm | Faculty Dining Room, West Building 8th Floor
Edward Witten is a super-star in the world of physics, and considered by many to be the savior of the field. Because of his contributions, he has been awarded the Fields Medal and named as one of Times 25 Most Influential Americans. Witten is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. Recently he was among the first winners of the Fundamental Physics Prize established by Yuri Milner, which carries with it a $3 million dollar award, twice that of the Nobel Prize.
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Sheldon Glashow

April 8, 2013 | 7:00pm | Faculty Dining Room, West Building 8th Floor
Sheldon Glashow studied under Julian Schwinger at Harvard and developed important theories of electromagnetic and nuclear particle interaction, which laid the groundwork for the next generation of research on quarks and leptons. In 1961, he published a theory extending electroweak unification models, a concept which was later developed further by Abdus Salam and a former high school classmate of Glashow's, Steven Weinberg. For this work, these three men shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979. In 1964 with James Bjorken, Glashow predicted the existence of the charm quark, an important idea in the theory of quarks, and in 1973 with physicist Howard Georgi, he proposed the first grand unified theory. He is among the most outspoken opponents of string theory, which he has called "a new version of medieval theology".
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Alan Guth

May 13 | 7:00pm | Faculty Dining Room, West Building 8th Floor
Alan Guth is a world renowned physicist who has won innumerable awards. He has held postdoctoral positions at Princeton University, Columbia University, Cornell University, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), working mostly on rather abstract mathematical problems in the theory of elementary particles. While at Cornell, Guth was persuaded to join the study of the production of magnetic monopoles in the early universe. This work changed the direction of Guth's career. They found that standard assumptions in particle physics and cosmology would lead to a fantastic overproduction of magnetic monopoles. From this work, Guth invented a revolutionary modification of the big bang theory called the inflationary universe. Recently he was among the first winners of the Fundamental Physics Prize established by Yuri Milner, which carries with it a $3 million dollar award. He is now the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics and a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT.
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Tina Santi Flaherty Winston Churchill Series

Lynne Olson

Date and Time TBA | Roosevelt House
Lynne Olson has written for such publications as the Washington Post, American Heritage, Smithsonian, Working Woman, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Ms., Elle, Glamour, Washington Journalism Review and Baltimore Magazine. She also taught journalism for five years as an assistant professor at American University in Washington. Olson's fourth book, Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England, was published in April 2007.  Drawing wide critical acclaim, it was named one of the top 10 books of 2007 by New York Times book review and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize in history.

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