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Special Event
The Autobiography of a Biographer

When

Wednesday May 14, 2008 (7:30pm)

Where
Symphony Space (2537 Broadway, 212.864.5400) Directions: Subway: 1,2,3, B, C trains to 96th Street (two stops from Times Square on 2,3 trains). Bus: M104 up- or downtown to 94th Street; M96 crosstown to Broadway
Price
$21
Details
http://www.symphonyspace.org/calendar/day/1210723200
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The modern-day biographer's job ain't easy. It requires exhaustive research and demands equal attention to both the subject's commendable and reprehensible qualities. James Atlas spent nearly a decade researching and writing an account of Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow's life; Edmund Morris' The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; and Stacy Schiff, another Pulitzer winner, penned a study of Vladmir Nabokov's wife, Vera, and a biography of French author/aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Tonight, these three biographers speak about their process and craft.