When: Monday, September 22
Where: Proshansky Auditorium The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave btwn 34th & 35th, NYC
What Time: 7 p.m.
Event Information: Free and open to the public, no registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005 >

An Eloquent Beginning

With James Atlas, Patricia Bosworth, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Paula J. Giddings, Gary Giddins, Wayne Koestenbaum, Wendy Lesser, David Levering Lewis, Megan Marshall, John Matteson, Nancy Milford, Honor Moore, Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan, and Brenda Wineapple 

Brilliant first paragraphs are as rare in biography as they are in fiction. However, on occasion, a biographer’s masterstroke appears on the very first page. An Eloquent Beginning, the inaugural public program of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, celebrates strong beginnings and the genre of biography with a group of distinguished biographers coming together to read their favorite opening of a biography.