[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
Good evening, everyone. I am the new executive director celebrating its tenth year now and i want to advertise the alliance with the bio. Courtesy of the president bio we are going to be cosponsoring their conference will also be happening here. For the new indigo fellowship there fellowships given out every single year. Im thrilled to this event and owner bob and i introduced now go swift will take it from here. Those of you who dont know it stands for the Biographers International organization and i want to think before we such a good friend and those whom ive mastered now for being so helpful and also cathy curtis is amazing and put this whole event together. But she already has so much to do because she is so amazing. It is as well as the biographers are masters of the field and we are excited to inaugurate a New Fellowship that allows people to apply and travel if they win the fellowships traveled to have the funds to go to the places their subjects lived so they could get a more
Encouraging people to take their seat. Good evening, everyone. I am the new executive director celebrating its tenth year now and i want to advertise the alliance with the bio. Courtesy of the president bio we are going to be cosponsoring their conference will also be happening here. For the new indigo fellowship there fellowships given out every single year. Im thrilled to this event and owner bob and i introduced now go swift will take it from here. Those of you who dont know it stands for the Biographers International organization and i want to think before we such a good friend and those whom ive mastered now for being so helpful and also cathy curtis is amazing and put this whole event together. But she already has so much to do because she is so amazing. It is as well as the biographers are masters of the field and we are excited to inaugurate a New Fellowship that allows people to apply and travel if they win the fellowships traveled to have the funds to go to the places their s
Is still sticking around for some parts of the mountains. News 13s Lauren Brigman is live in our mobile track in madison county. Lauren, how are the roads this morning . 3 3 the subfreezing temperatures have searchers frantically looking for a Haywood County man who went missing this week. 57yearold scott turners pick up truck was found in Oconee County on tuesday. He was last seen in canton the day before at the evergreen paper plant where he works. Turners family and more than 60 searchers are now looking for him in south carolina. The search is in the Chattooga River area. 3 i hope that theyll find him. This cold weather. Its terrible ya know. But like i said, our prayers are with him and i like i said theyre outstanding folks. 3 turner is six feet tall, 205 pounds, and has brown hair and blue eyes. If you have any information, call the Haywood County sheriffs office. 3 3 3 3 as primary season moves into full swing, the democratic preparing to faceoff tonight. As Kim Hutcherson repo