Howard Gardner is the Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has studied and written extensively about intelligence, creativity, leadership, and professional ethics, and is the senior director of Project Zero and co-founder of the Good Project. Among his current research undertakings is a national investigation of […]
The Lewis Burke Frumkes Center For Writing & Culture at Hunter College presents: Best-Selling Author - Jane Smiley Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently, The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: Some Luck, Early Warning and Golden Age. She is also the author […]
The Lewis Burke Frumkes Center For Writing & Culture at Hunter College presents: Best-Selling Author - Anne Patchett Join us for a compelling discussion between best-selling author Ann Patchett and her friend Patrick Ryan, writer and editor of One Story magazine. They will be discussing how the pandemic has changed their reading, writing and creative […]
Barbara Taylor Bradford, O.B.E., one of the world’s most popular and prolific authors, has written 38 best-selling novels. Her first, A Woman of Substance, has sold over 33 million copies worldwide and is on the ten-book list of the biggest-selling novels of all time. It is still selling today and was a huge success as […]
Join the Center for Writing and Culture for an evening of invigorating discussion with award-winning broadcast journalist and author Kitty Pilgrim. Kitty will be speaking concerning the global information age and social media from the perspective of a former CNN anchor and correspondent, followed by a live Q&A. This event will be held online.
Emily Ratajkowski is an author, podcast host entrepreneur, activist, and model. Her debut essay collection "My Body" was released by Metropolitan Books on November 9, 2021, becoming an instant New York Times Best Seller. On November 1, 2022, she launched a new original podcast series "High Low with Emrata" with Sony Music Entertainment, which landed at the […]
Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, and Katabasis (forthcoming). Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. She has been named to the 2023 Time100 Next list and the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2024. A Marshall Scholar, she […]
Join us in our special event hosting Susan Isaacs, author of Bad, Bad Seymour Brown. “Jane Austen with a schmear” - Susan Isaacs, best selling author, screen writer, and previous editor at Seventeen magazine and freelace political speechwriter. An alumna of Queens College, Isaacs chaired the board of directors of Poets & Writers, the literary […]
