[inaudible conversations] encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is cia bird. Im in the new executive director of the leon leavy center for biography, which is celebrating the ten inch year now, all due to shelby white and the leon leave levery foundation, and i want to advertise our new alliance with bio, our first joint we sponsor the event with them and also curtsy of will swift here, of the president of bio, we have our also going to be doing cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next way. That will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. Also want to advertise i put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for the new the annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop. For aspiring biographers. So if you know anyone who is aspiring, encourage them to apply. Im really thrilled were able to do this event to honor bob weil, and i introduced now w
If it were possible to have poor writer minicamp that speaks solely for himself and without being a writer himself he could speak to the language of writers better than any editor or publisher he would meet and he was always tactful in speaking with writers. I have to admit i pulled a fast one because its not about or at least it was not written originally about bob weil, but it was written about the man who inspired him to begin an editor and i did not realize he had been inspired to Maxwell Perkins until he said that just now, but this was from scotts biography of max perkins and i kept having it sounded like it was a description of bob. In the essential attributes of the good editor, which max burton exemplifies i see bob as well and its been one of the greatest privileges of my professional life for more than 10 years and more years to come because we have more books in the pipeline to be associated with bob and i think what hes done is elevated my writing because hes had faith in
So, again, encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is kai bird, im the new executive director of the Leon Levy Center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. And i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. This is our first sort of jointlysponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next may. And that will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. I also want to advertise and put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for our new, our annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop for aspiring biographers. So if you know of people who are aspiring, please encourage them to apply. And finally, i just, you know, im really thrilled that were able to do
90 miles from cuba, key west is closer to havana than miami. We learn more about the history of the island from the Monroe County librarian. We are in the Key West Branch of the Monroe County library. I house the archives for munro county. We try to keep all of the records we can, church records, plus some of the government records that other people have disposed of, a little bit of everything. I pulled out several things i thought would be of interest to the cspan audience. General items, various things that happened here over the many years we have been here. Key west had native americans who either died out or moved out. Most of most of the ones moved out at the end of the first spanish period. No one had a permanent population until the americans bought florida and commodore to keyorter was ordered west to establish the first naval station. Really established the first. Ivilization here followed by him was john the landwho bought from a spanish military officer. We consider the let
Good was it all . And churchill looked at him unbelieving. World war ii had destroyed n churchills mind, hitler and mussolini and the dictators. It had saved democracy, it had saved western civilization, so cur chill thought. And kennedy blazed hatred at him. Booktv is the only National Television network devoted exclusively to nonfiction books every weekend, and this fall were marking 15 years of booktv on cspan2. Here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. At 3 45 p. M. Eastern, juanita patience moss talks about the forgotten black soldiers and white regiment during the civil war. Tomorrow at noon well be live with representative john lewis for three hours. The congressman will be taking your calls, emails, tweets and facebook posts. Then at 5 p. M. Eastern, booktv brings you some books on iran. Visit booktv. Org for a complete television schedule. Pulitzer prizewinning biographer a. Scott berg presents his book, wilson. This 45minute presentation aired during the Nationa