Author Series
Members of the Patron Network are invited to attend our annual Author Series, presented since 1994 in partnership with The New York Society Library.
Current Patrons can contact us to learn more or to suggest authors they would love for us to include in our Author Series via our dedicated Patron line 212.560.2828 or email us at patrons@wnet.org.
2013 Season (in progress)
- December 5th, 2012
Robert A. Caro on The Year of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power - February 5th, 2013
Jon Meacham on Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
2012 Season
- Bill Moyers on Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues
- Leymah Gbowee on Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
- Robert Massie on Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
2011 Season
- Stacy Schiff on Cleopatra: A Life
- Robert D. Putnam on American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
- Annette Gordon-Reed on Andrew Johnson
2010 Season
- A.E. Hotchner on Paul and Me: 53 Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal, Paul Newman
- Hannah Pakula on The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China
- Caroline Alexander on The War That Killed Achilles
- Dr. James Orbinski on An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-first Century
- Andrew Ross Sorkin on Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves
2009 Season
- Bill Moyers on Moyers On Democracy
- Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac on Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
- Robert Thurman on Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World
- Dr. William F. Baker on Leading With Kindness: How Good People Consistently Get Superior Results
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz on Not Now, Voyage
2008 Season
- Molly O’Neil on American Food Writing
- Laurence Bergreen on Marco Polo: Venice to Xanadu
- Ralph Baruch on Television Tightrope: How I Escaped Hitler, Survived CBS, and Fathered Viacom
- Walter Isaacson on Einstein
2007 Season
- Andrew Delbanco on Melville
- Rafe Esquith on Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire
- Elizabeth Gilbert on Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
- Paul Rusesabagina on An Ordinary Man
- Nathaniel Philbrick on Mayflower
2006 Season
- Edmund Morris on Beethoven: The Universal Composer
- Hazel Rowley on Tête-à-Tête
- Robert A. Caro on The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate
- Zlata Filipovic on Zlata’s Diary
- Peter Kramer on Against Depression