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Author discussions, symposia and other events are an important part of the programming of the Center for the Book. The long-running Books & Beyond author series has attracted writers from across the country to discuss their books and the writing life, and to talk about how they have used the resources of the Library of Congress in their work. Most of these presentations are filmed for later webcasting.
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Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010
noon - Pickford Theater, Madison Building.
Books & Beyond program. Michael Kranish will discuss and sign his new book, Flight From Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010
noon - Mumford Room , Madison Building.
Books & Beyond program. James McGrath Morris will discuss and sign his new book, Pulitzer: a Life in Politics, Print and Power (Harper, 2010). Cosponsored with the Manuscript Division.
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010
noon - West Dining Room , Madison Building.
Books & Beyond program. Kathryn Jacob will discuss and sign her new book, King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man About Washington in the Gilded Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
noon - Pickford Theater, Madison Building.
Books & Beyond program. John Earl Haynes will discuss and sign his new book written in collaboration with Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, Spies: the Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press, 2009). Cosponsored with the Manuscript Division.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
12:30 p.m. - Dining Room A, Madison Building.
Books & Beyond program. Adele Logan Alexander will discuss and sign her new book, Parallel Worlds: the Remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the Enduring (In) Significance of Melanin. (University of Virgina Press, 2010).
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
noon - Mumford, Madison Building.
Books & Beyond program. Abby Sallenger will discuss and sign his new book, Island In the Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster That Warns of a Warmer World (Public Affiars, 2009). Cosponsored with the Geography and Map Division.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
noon - West Dining Room, Madison Building.
Books & Beyond program. Richard F. Grimmett will discuss and sign his new book, St. John's Church, Lafayette Square: the History and Heritage of the Church of the Presidents, Washington, DC (Mill City Press, 2009).
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
noon - Pickford Theater , Madison Building.
Books & Beyond program. Larry E. Tise will discuss and sign his new book, Conquering the Sky: the Secret Flights of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Cosponsored with the Manuscript Division.
Monday, April 12, 2010
noon - Mumford, Madison Building.
Books & Beyond program. Harry Katz, Susan Reybyurn, Frank Ceresi, Phil Michel, and Wilson McBee will disucss their new book Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress (Smithsonian Books, 2009). Cosponsored with the Publishing Office.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
noon - Pickford Theater, Madison Building.
Books & Beyond program. A. Roger Ekrich will discuss and sign his new book, Birthright: the True Story that Inspired Kidnapped (W.W. Norton & Co., 2010).
Thursday, April 22, 2010
noon - Dining Room A, Madison Building.
Books & Beyond program. Anita Silvey will discuss and sign her new book, Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book: Lifes Lessons from Notable People from all Walks of Life (Roaring Brook Press, 2009).
Friday, May 7, 2010
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. - Mumford, Madison Building.
Symposium marking the publication by Penn State University Press of The First White House Library: A History and Annotated Catalog .. Cosponsored with the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, the National First Ladies Library, Penn State University Press, and Bibliographical Society of America.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
11:30 a.m. - Dining Room A , Madison Building.
Books & Beyond program. Timothy M. Gay will discuss and sign his new book, Satch, Dizzy and Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson(Simon & Schuster, 2010).
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
10 a.m. - 12 p.m. - Room 119 , Jefferson Building.
River of Words awards ceremony for winners and finalists of the 2009-2010 environmental art and poetry contest for young people. Hosted by Robert Hass, U.S. Poet Laureate 1995-1997.