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

Well known as a beloved longtime fiction editor at the New Yorker, William Maxwell worked closely with such legendary writers as John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, Mary McCarthy, and John Cheever.

In Master of the Senate, Lyndon Johnson uses his incomparable political genius to bend Senators to his will and to ram to passage the first civil rights bill in a century.

The most famous woman scientist of all time, Marie Curie has streets named after her and appears on the sixty-franc note, but she is generally thought to have been remote, impersonal, and obsessed with her work.

Ames reads from Wake Up, Sir! and The Extra Man and talks about the influence of British novels, especially the work of P.G.

Brian Selznick shares how he writes, researches, and illustrates his books, and talk about his travels, including an exciting visit to Waterhouse Hawkins' dinosaurs in England.

Gray has authored numerous books of fiction and nonfiction including Simone Weil, At Home with the Marquis de Sade, Rage and Fire, and Soviet Women.

Acclaimed poet John Hollander published his eighteenth book of poetry, Picture Window, in January 2005.

In the early nineteenth century, Scots heiress Mary Nisbet became famous as the wife and ally of the Earl of Elgin, ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.