Frances Kiernan on Biography: One Biographer and Two Very Different Women
VENUE: Harry Ransom Center ORGANIZATION: Harry Ransom Center TIMES: Thu, Nov. 5 7 P.M.
COST: Free
View event Web site DESCRIPTION: Kiernan, former editor of The New Yorker, discusses her very different experiences writing the biographies Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy and The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story, about Brooke Astor. One elicited startling quotes from friends and acquaintances, and the other elicited pro forma encomiums. One required many hours in the library, poring over letters, the other required the subject's two memoirs and then dozens of live interviews followed by a surprising turn that changed the book dramatically.
Seating is free, but limited.
VENUE INFORMATION
Harry Ransom Center
21st and Guadalupe Streets
Austin, TX 78705
ORGANIZATION INFORMATION
Harry Ransom Center
21st and Guadalupe Streets
Austin, TX 78705
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