LIBRARY NOTES
Geoffrey Ward
The Art of Biography
Wednesday, November 9, 1994
The biography program, funded by the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, was developed by historian, screen writer, and biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Geoffrey C. Ward, and The New York Society Library, in association with the National Humanities Center and Thirteen/WNET.
Geoffrey C. Ward will open the 1994-1995 series on Wednesday, November 9, with a talk entitled "Riddles of the Sphinx: Trying to Figure out F.D.R."
On Wednesday, February 16, Judith Thurman, biographer of Isak Dinesen, will discuss her biography-in-progress on Colette in "Secrets of the Flesh: Trying to Decode Colette."
The final presentation will be a panel discussion on Wednesday, March 16, "Small Screen Lives: Biography on Television." In addition to Ward, participants will be Judy Crichton, executive producer of PBS's "The American Experience", David Grubin, maker of "The Wyeths," "LBJ," and "JFK," and Orlando Bagwell, film biographer of Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass.
This is the first year of a three-year exploration of the art of biography.
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