2022 BIO Conference Panel: Archives Unlimited

Описание: Archives Unlimited

Where do you look for unusual insights into your subject’s life and work? Beyond the major archives, three seasoned biographers suggest public records kept by your subjects’ friends and colleagues; state archives; private collections and auction houses; sound archives; specialty researchers; an even searching an old barn.

Moderator
Caleb Gayle is an award-winning journalist and Professor of Practice at Northeastern University who writes about race and identity. He is a fellow at New America and PEN America, a visiting scholar at NYU’s Arthur Carter Journalism Institute, and a winner of the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award. Gayle’s writing has appeared in  The New York Times Magazine,  The Atlantic,  The Guardian,  Guernica, and other publications. His debut work, We Refuse to Forget, comes out June 7, 2022, with Riverhead Books.

Panelists
Jonathan Eig is a former senior special writer for  The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of several books, including two highly acclaimed bestsellers, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season.  And Joyce Carol Oates referred to his book, Ali: A Life, as “an epic of a biography.”

Ruth Franklin is a book critic and former editor at  The New Republic. Her first biography,  Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2016) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and was named a New York Times  Notable Book of 2016, a Time magazine top nonfiction book of 2016, and a “best book of 2016” by  The Boston Globe, the  San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, and others. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in biography, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, a Leon Levy Fellowship in biography, and the Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism.

Dr. Kevin McGruder, Associate Professor of history at Antioch is the author of  Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem, published by Columbia University Press in July 2021. During the 1990s, Kevin McGruder served as the director of real estate development for the Abyssinian Development Corporation, a nonprofit church-based organization in Harlem, and he wrote a book about race and real estate in Harlem.