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Her latest book is a biography of Founding Father Samuel Adams.

Journalist Jonathan Eig examined the life of Martin Luther King Jr., including recently declassified FBI documents about the civil rights leader. This was part of the 2023 Gaithersburg Book …

Walter Isaacson examined Elon Musk’s life and career in tech, including his takeover of Twitter, now called X. Held at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., this was hosted by Poli…

Miriam Pawel talked about her book, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography, in which she chronicles the life and activism of United Farm Workers co-founder and president Cesar Chavez.

Associated Press' Julie Pace and Darlene Superville spoke about the life and career of First Lady Jill Biden. Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., hosted this event.

The 43rd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes honored literary works in several categories including biography and current events.

Awards for fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography and other categories were presented.

Author Debby Applegate recounted the life of Jazz Age icon and notorious madam Polly Adler. This program took place at the American Library Association’s 2022 conference in Washington, D.C.

Northwestern University History Professor Amy Stanley discussed her biography, Stranger in the Shogun's City, about a Japanese woman's life in Edo (now Toyko) during the 19th century, just prior to the city's encounters with Commodore Matthew Perry and the United States Navy in 1853. The book was a National Book Critics Award winner and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography.

William Cross talked about his biography of painter Winslow Homer, who was capturing the American experience as the Civil War erupted in 1861 and who continued working through Reconstruction, the Gilded Age and into the early 20th century.

Historian Walter Isaacson talked about his biography of Benjamin Franklin and the Ken Burns documentary on Franklin for which he was a senior advisor.

Lee: A Life," a biography of the general who commanded the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

Hudson Institute senior fellow Melanie Kilpatrick talked about her biography of Godey's Lady's Book editor Sarah Josepha Hale, considered one of the most influential women in America during the 19th century.

Journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser looked at the life and career of former White House Chief of St…

Author and former NPR and ABC News correspondent Kati Marton discussed her biography of Angela Merkel, who served as chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021.

John Allen talked about his book Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu, published by Free Press.

Tamara Payne recounted the life of Malcolm X in her Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, The Dead Are Arising.

Tamara Payne recounted the life of Malcolm X from her National Book Award-winning biography, The Dead Are Arising.

This was a 10:00 a.m. program in the History and Biography Pavilion of the 9th annual National Book Festival, held on the National Mall.

Neal Gabler offered the first of a two-volume biography of the late Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.