Brett Helquist talks about how he became a children's author and illustrator, starting with a childhood love of comic books, and describe the process of creating the illustrations for A Series of Unfortunate Events and other books.

In the first half of the twentieth century, Washington Square North saw an influx of almost 200 artists, many of them recently trained in Europe, who converted unused stables and townhouses into a hotbed of new American art.

The Law of Dreams tells the story of a young man's Homeric passage from innocence to experience during the Irish Famine of 1847.

The Library observes the 90th anniversary of America's entry into the First World War with a look at the songs that raised spirits, evoked patriotism, and characterized the era.

Marie Ponsot is the author of numerous poetry collections including True Minds (1957), Admit Impediment (1981), The Green Dark (1988), The Bird Catcher (1998), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a

Chris Raschka won the 2006 Caldecott Medal for The Hello, Goodbye Window (written by Norton Juster).

Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote has been called the first modern novel and the greatest book of all time.

Elizabeth Winthrop is the author of over fifty works of fiction, most recently the highly acclaimed historical novel Counting on Grace. Her book was inspired by an iconic photograph by great child-labor photographer Lewis Hine.

With his fifth-grade students in Los Angeles, Esquith established the Hobart Shakespeareans, who perform Shakespeare's work through performance, song, and discussion around the world. This event is co-sponsored by WNET/Thirteen New York.

The Costume Copycat is Ms. Macdonald's twenty-first children's book. It is about envy, a subject on which the author is an expert. In this event, she will read her book and talk about writing and publishing it.

Architect Pennoyer and historic preservationist Walker discuss the prolific partnership of Whitney Warren and Charles D. Wetmore, whose projects included Grand Central Terminal.

In the wake of his groundbreaking 1993 book Listening to Prozac, psychiatrist Peter Kramer began to ask how the prevalence of depression in our society influences our perception of the condition - and whether a "cult of melancholy" that t