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SUMMARY:Author to Author: Laurie Gwen Shapiro in Conversation with Debby Applegate
DESCRIPTION:The art of documenting an event or person’s life\, whether in film or in print\, is the subject of this conversation between author Debby Applegate and author/filmmaker Laurie Gwen Shapiro.  \nLaurie Gwen Shapiro is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, New York\, The Daily Beast\, Slate\, and others. Shapiro is the 2021 winner of the Damn History Award for “The Improbable Journey of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes” for The New Yorker and gold medallion winner in the People Profiles category for the Silurian Press Club’s 77th annual Excellence in Journalism Awards. She is the author of The Stowaway a best seller and an Indie next selection. She is an adjunct professor of journalism at The NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute in the graduate program. She is author of The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart\, George Putnam\, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon. \nDebby Applegate’s first book\, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher\, her riveting account of the famous 19th-century preacher\, abolitionist and Berkshire resident\, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Her second book\, Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler\, Icon of the Jazz Age\, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice for Best Books of 2021\, and won an Earphones Award for best audiobooks of 2021.  \nUse the BOOK NOW button to purchase tickets; $15 BCHS members\, $20 non-members.
URL:https://berkshirehistory.org/event/author-to-author-laurie-gwen-shapiro-in-conversation-with-debby-applegate/
LOCATION:Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
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