Events for September 19, 2016
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Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder
Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize winner TRACY KIDDER, author of The Soul of a New Machine and Mountains Beyond Mountains, and entrepreneur PAUL ENGLISH for a discussion of Kidder's latest book, A Truck Full of Money: One Man’s Quest to Recover from Great Success, the inspiring story of Kayak.com and Lola founder Paul English. With the power of a […]
Find out more »The Black Prince of Florence
Newtonville Books is pleased to welcome Catherine Fletcher, author of The Black Prince of Florence: the Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici. Ruler of Florence for seven bloody years, 1531 to 1537, Alessandro de’ Medici was arguably the first person of color to serve as a head of state in the Western world. […]
Find out more »Teddy Wayne: Loner
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome Teddy Wayne, author of Loner, in conversation with novelist Molly Antopol. About Loner: David Federman has never felt appreciated. An academically gifted yet painfully forgettable member of his New Jersey high school class, the withdrawn, mild-mannered freshman arrives at Harvard fully expecting to be embraced by a new […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.