Events
Annual Conference
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Program Details
Optional Pre-Conference Virtual Roundtables
Roundtables for the 2025 conference will take place online about a week before the conference itself. Limited to ten participants each, roundtables provide an opportunity for biographers to meet other biographers with similar interests. Participation is optional, and space is limited. Please do not sign up unless you intend to participate. Do sign up if you would like to meet fellow biographers before you arrive at the conference.
Each roundtable has a host, named in parentheses below, who will facilitate introductions, answer questions, and direct a discussion of interest to the participants. Each session lasts for one hour.
You may sign up for only one roundtable. Because of limited space, you are encouraged to sign up as soon as possible but no later than May 16. The roundtable host will contact you with a link shortly before the scheduled meeting.
All times are Washington, D.C. (Eastern Daylight) Time.
Wednesday, May 28
2:00-3:00 PM
- Women’s Lives I (Iris Jamahl Dunkle)
- Overlooked Lives (Pamela Toler)
- Politics and Law (Diane Kiesel)
7:00-8:00 PM
- Visual and Performing Arts (Natalie Dykstra)
- Literary Biography (Steve Paul)
- History (Marc Leepson)
Thursday, May 29
2:00-3:00 PM
- First-Time Biographers (Linda Leavell)
- Science, Medicine, and Technology (Karen Torghele)
- Group Biography (Lauren Arrington)
7:00-8:00 PM
- Women’s Lives II (A’Lelia Bundles)
- Popular Culture (Jared Stearns)
- Social Justice (Louise “Lucy” Knight)
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Keynote Speaker
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is the author of Morgan, American Financier, and Alice James, A Biography, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Newsweek, and other publications. Strouse has been a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, and served as Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library from 2003 to 2017. Her new book, Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, has just been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Plenary Speakers
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is the author of Morgan, American Financier, and Alice James, A Biography, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Newsweek, and other publications. Strouse has been a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, and served as Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library from 2003 to 2017. Her new book, Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, has just been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Firstname Lastname
is the author of Morgan, American Financier, and Alice James, A Biography, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Newsweek, and other publications. Strouse has been a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, and served as Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library from 2003 to 2017. Her new book, Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, has just been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Speakers / Panelists
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