Leon Levy Center for Biography

Ellen Levy on Ray Johnson, in conversation with Deborah SolomonTuesday, ... youtu.be/f1pS--FS-1w?si… via @YouTube

Cynthia Carr on Candy Darling, with Lucy Sante, Tues, Oct 8, the Graduat... youtu.be/zPLLdMYYOCQ?si… via @YouTube

Max Boot on Ronald Reagan, in conversation with Kai Bird, Sept 24, the G... youtu.be/wxIHNOuKR7Q?si… via @YouTube

Paul Hendrickson on Fighting the Night, in conversation with Kai Bird. M... youtu.be/X_NP24aMhdk?si… via @YouTube

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Nicholas Shakespeare on Ian Fleming, with Kai Bird, Tuesday, May 28, 6:3... youtu.be/SJ6DdG6fP6g?si… via @YouTube

Natalie Dykstra on Isabella Stewart Gardner, with Rachel Cohen, April 18... youtu.be/8RQ9qt8YmlY?si… via @YouTube

Congratulations to the five Leon Levy Biography fellows for 2024-2025: Stephen Phillips, Nicholas Kulish (@nkulish), @emilyebernard, @mikerezendes, and Nicholas Dawidoff gc.cuny.edu/news/leon-levy… @biographyctr @Kaibird123

Executive Director Kai Bird has won the BIO Award. Bird will deliver the keynote address at the 2024 BIO Conference on Friday, May 17. biographersinternational.org/news/kai-bird-…

@lancerichardson Love Salter, all of him, even this underrated relatively thin-on-the-ground novel, which has many amazing moments. Cf Coetzee's Disgrace, which has a comparable screenplay-like thinness. But the line you quote is fantastic, classic Salter. Thank you for highlighting it, Lance!