Create an industry that creates more opportunity and equity for everyone for real. And thats thats my thing. Thanks for thank yourachel shte. Author of four books and many articles essays and reviews. Her current book is Betty Friedan and magnificent disruptor. She teaches at the Theater School at Depaul University and our moderator is. Gioia diliberto the author of seven books, three historical novels and four biographies and a play. Her writing, which focuses on womens, has been praised for combining rich storytelling and literary grace with deep research to provide to bring alive worlds as varied as jazz, age, paris and century chicago ballet epic paris and disco manhattan. Her books have been translated into several languages and. She has been a judge for prominent literary contests as a journalist, georgia has written for many publications, including New York Times, the wall street journal, the chicago tribune, the los angeles times, the smithsonian and town and country and excuse
Barrel dont attack each other support each other. Create an industry that creates more opportunity and equity for everyone for real. And thats thats my thing. Thanks for thank yourachel shte. Author of four books and many articles essays and reviews. Her current book is Betty Friedan and magnificent disruptor. She teaches at the Theater School at Depaul University and our moderator is. Gioia diliberto the author of seven books, three historical novels and four biographies and a play. Her writing, which focuses on womens, has been praised for combining rich storytelling and literary grace with deep research to provide to bring alive worlds as varied as jazz, age, paris and century chicago ballet epic paris and disco manhattan. Her books have been translated into several languages and. She has been a judge for prominent literary contests as a journalist, georgia has written for many publications, including New York Times, the wall street journal, the chicago tribune, the los angeles time
Author of four books and many articles essays and reviews. Her current book is Betty Friedan and magnificent disruptor. She teaches at the Theater School at Depaul University and our moderator is. Gioia diliberto the author of seven books, three historical novels and four biographies and a play. Her writing, which focuses on womens, has been praised for combining rich storytelling and literary grace with deep research to provide to bring alive worlds as varied as jazz, age, paris and century chicago ballet epic paris and disco manhattan. Her books have been translated into several languages and. She has been a judge for prominent literary contests as a journalist, georgia has written for many publications, including New York Times, the wall street journal, the chicago tribune, the los angeles times, the smithsonian and town and country and excuse me, rachels book be available for purchase outside the black curtains afterward. And we will have a signing right behind us. So turn the rest
With open forum. I want to share this story written on the propublica of a grad student on covered the largest slave sale. She is joining us and is also joined with bernard powers, director for the center for the study of slavery in charlston. Welcome to both of you. Let me start with lauren and the headline in this piece, this uncovering of the artist known slave auction in the United States, explain what you were doing and what the project you were working on and how did you make this discovery . Guest is interned during graduate school at the center for slavery and i had been sitting in my room doing Newspaper Research in the archives at slave traders in charleston during that time period and stumbled across it. I had been doing that job for a few months and happened upon it. Host what did you come upon . Guest the sale of 600 people. I thought it might have been a misprint and i emailed dr. Powers and we had a meeting and realized it was real. Host when you saw that number, the sal
Support first of our authors, second of this wonderful annual event now in its 22nd year. [applause] and third of all the books that would be discussed and enjoyed throughout this beautiful Texas Capitol complex here in downtown austin, if i might pause, i would ask you to silence your cell phones. Live tv, thank you, cspan after our session both authors will be relocated to the book signing tent down the street to autograph their books. Books are for sale courtesy of the great independent bookseller bookpeople. [applause] buy a book. When you buy a book your support not only the author, the festival and a great local indie store but you are also helping the texas book festival as a nonprofit entity, pursuant to its mission of supporting lowincome schools with other visits, but donations via the reading rock Stars Program and to fund grants for libraries throughout the state. Additionally the festival is running a benefit, a book drive benefit this weekend to raise money to rebuild tex