LIBRARY NOTES
Biography Lecture Series
Thursday, February 16, 1995 at 6:30 PM
Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street
Judith Thurman will give the second program in the 1994-95 Biography Series.
Thurman won the National Book Award for her biography of Isak Dinesen,
The Life of a Story Teller. Her talk, "Secrets of the Flesh: Trying to Decode Colette," will be based on her biography in progress of that author.
The final program of the 1994-95 Series will be on Thursday, March 16. Entitled "Small Screen Lives: Biography on Television", its panelists will be Geoffrey C. Ward, principal writer of the PBS series "The Civil War", "Baseball", "Nixon", and "The Kennedys"; Judy Crighton, Executive Producer of the American Experience series, also on PBS; David Grubin, filmmaker of the "Wyeths", "LBJ", and "FDR"; and Orlando Bagwell, film biographer of Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass.
The Biography Project, funded by the Lila Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund, was developed by Geoffrey Ward and the Library, in association with the National Humanities Center and Thirteen/WNET.
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