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SUMMARY:Writing Family History
DESCRIPTION:Featured writer: Paul Hendrickson; Moderator: Elizabeth Taylor\nHow does a historian and biographer tackle his own family story? Paul Hendrickson talks about his new book about the Black Widow fighters on Iwo Jima and his father’s war stories.\nBook signing times (all signings take place in the Winter Garden, 9th Floor)\n🖊️Paul Hendrickson: 4:30 – 4:50\nFULL SCHEDULE ( https://americanwritersmuseum.org/american-writers-festival/schedule/ )\nAbout the writers:\n\n\n\nPAUL HENDRICKSON is a three-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a winner in 2003 for his book Sons of Mississippi. The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War was a 1996 finalist for the National Book Award. Hemingway’s Boat was a New York Times best seller. He has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. Since 1998, he has been on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and for two decades before that, he was a staff writer at The Washington Post. He lives with his wife, Cecilia, outside Philadelphia and in Washington, DC.\n\n\n\n\n\nELIZABETH TAYLOR, Literary Editor at Large of the Chicago Tribune, has served as President of the NBCC. The co-author of American Pharaoh, she edited both the Books and Sunday Magazine sections of the Chicago Tribune, and was a national correspondent for Time magazine, based in New York and then Chicago.\nBooks by these writers:\nVIEW FESTIVAL READING LIST\n\nFighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer’s Life by Paul Hendrickson\nFrom the acclaimed author of Hemingway’s Boat, the profoundly moving story of his father’s wartime service as a night fighter pilot, and the prices he and his fellow soldiers paid for their acts of selfless, patriotic sacrifice.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://americanwritersmuseum.org/program-calendar/american-writers-festival-writing-family-history/
CATEGORIES:American Writers Festival,History & Bio,Nonfiction
LOCATION:Harold Washington Library Center
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