Leslie Brody on The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford, Julie Salamon on The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein, and Charles J. Shields on Kurt Vonnegut
Saturday, Nov. 19, 12:30 p.m., Batten (Building 2, 1st Floor, Room 2106)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Leslie Brody
Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe the subject of Leslie Brody's biography, Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford (Counterpoint,$28.00): "subversive," "mischief-maker," " muckraker." Born into one of Britain’s most famous aristocratic families, she eloped with Winston Churchill’s nephew as a teenager and went on to become one of the New Deal’s most notorious bureaucrats, coining the term "frenemy." "Brody has made the world a better place by telling [Mitford's] saga so skillfully," says the San Francisco Chronicle. Brody is the author of Red Star Sister: Between Madness and Utopia and A Motel of the Mind.
Julie Salamon
Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein, by Julie Salamon, is the first authorized account of Pulitzer Prize and Tony-award winning playwright, Wendy Wasserstein. The life revealed is of a brilliant but complicated American artist, one who struggled both creatively and personally, and who fiercely held private a life she seemed so willing to explore in her plays. Salamon, formerly a reporter for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, is the author of many best-selling works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Christmas Tree and Facing the Wind.
Charles J. Shields
And So It Goes (Henry Holt, $30.00) by Charles J. Shields, is the culmination of five years of research and writing—the first-ever biography of the life of Kurt Vonnegut, one of the most influential iconoclasts of his time. An "engrossing, definitive biography, says Publishers Weekly in its starred review. Shields is a biographer of post-World War II American authors and the author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Batten (Building 2, 1st Floor, Room 2106)
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