Sydney Ladensohn Stern: Lecture on her in-progress biography of Irene Mayer Selznick
Mon, Mar 18, 2024
4:00 PM–5:30 PM
Free and open to all, this lecture takes place in the Skylight Room (9100) of the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue.
Women Writing Women’s Lives and The Center for the Study of Women and Society present the Dorothy O. Helly Works-in-Progress Lecture from author, Sydney Ladensohn Stern, who will discuss her in-progress biography of Irene Mayer Selznick, the legendary Hollywood figure turned Broadway producer.
This event is free and open to the public and will be held in person on Monday, March 18th at 4:00 PM in the Skylight Room (9100) of the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue. No registration necessary.
Sydney Ladensohn Stern is the author of Toyland: The High-Stakes Game of Toy Industry and Gloria Steinem: Her Passions, Politics, and Mystique. Stern’s latest book, The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak and Hollywood Classics was noted by the Wall Street Journal as a “model biography” and film critic Molly Haskell called it a “fascinating dual portrait.”
Many thanks to our co-sponsors: The Center for the Humanities,
The Feminist Press, The Leon Levy Center for Biography, the Graduate
Center MA Programs in Biography and Memoir and Liberal Studies, and the
PhD Programs in History and English.
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