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@thirteen.org

Upcoming Lectures:

Spring authors to-be-announced

Past lectures and their works have included:

2010 Season (in progress):

Caroline Alexander on The War That Killed Achilles (video coming soon)
Dr. James Orbinski on An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-first Century (video coming soon)

Spring authors to-be-announced

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, Voyager

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