A conversation with biographer Deirdre Bair April 7, 2011

A conversation with biographer Deirdre Bair

Thursday, April 7, 2011, 6:30pm

Strand Bookstore Underground
828 Broadway
New York, 10003
(212) 473-1452

Join us for a talk about the art and craft of biography by critically acclaimed author Deirdre Bair and Prof. Jane Kinney-Denning of Pace University's Publishing Program.

Deirdre Bair won the National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography. Her biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and Carl Jung were finalists for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Bair’s biographies of Anais Nin and Simone de Beauvoir were chosen by The New York Times as "Best Books of the Year," and her biography of Jung won the Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.

Deirdre is a literary journalist who writes frequently about travel, feminist issues, and cultural life. A former professor of Comparative Literature, she writes and lectures internationally, and has returned as visiting faculty member at Bennington College for Spring 2011.

Deirdre Bair is currently working on a biography of New Yorker cartoonist and artist, Saul Steinberg.

Event sponsored by the Women’s National Book Association

Free and open to all
RSVP’s welcome -- [email protected]

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