Approaches to Life Writing, Fall 2013

The course site for MALS 70900

Category: Life writing resources

by Ema Izquierdo

With Christmas just a few days away, I found a list of the “10 best Autobiographies to inspire you” if you want to keep reading great books about life writing.

10-write-life-story

Give yourselves (or a loved one) the magical gift of a book of this genre to expand the knowledge we have achieved during this semester.

http://www.amazon.com/10-Best-Autobiographies-inspire-you/lm/R729QH07VH9L2

Hope you find here something you like.

Leon Levy Center for Biography

by Carrie Hintz

As you know, one of your assignments is to post at least once on a work of life writing that we are not covering in the course…or an event relating to life writing.  Here is a link to the Leon Levy Center for Biography, which hosts many such events:

http://web.gc.cuny.edu/llcb/

The first event is on September 18th: the Sixth Annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture, given by David Levering Lewis.  If you want to go, make reservations immediately or you may find yourself unable to get a seat at this very popular annual lecture.

 

Sixth Annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture:   David Levering Lewis

September 18 / 6:30PM / Proshansky Auditorium / The Graduate Center, CUNY

Free, Reservations Required

David Levering Lewis, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize in biography, will deliver the annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture. Each year the Leon Levy Center for Biography selects a biographer of note to deliver a lecture about the process of researching and writing a biography. Previous lecturers have included Robert A. Caro, Ron Chernow, Robert K. Massie, Stacy Schiff, and Hilary Spurling. Lewis, who will soon publish a biography of 1940 Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, has written eight books. Currently the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at New York University, Lewis has won the Bancroft Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and the MacArthur foundations, in addition to the Pulitzers, which recognized his back-to-back volumes on W.E.B. Du Bois.

 

 

 

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