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Summer Author Series for July at The Mount

Literature, Lectures, and Talks

  • July 7 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm  

    Since 1993, the Summer Author Series has brought award-winning biographers to The Mount. This year’s Series explores lives and ideas that have challenged convention. From unsung heroes to innovators, these talks invite us to reflect on how acts of courage—large and small—have challenged assumptions and expanded our collective imagination.
    07/06 from 4-5 pm, 07/07 from 11-12 pm: Julia Ioffe, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
    07/13 from 4-5 pm, 07/14 from 11-12 pm: Mark Braude, The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
    07/20 from 4-5 pm, 07/21 from 11-12 pm: Martha Ackmann with Anastasia Stanmeyer, Ain’t Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton
    07/27 from 4-5 pm, 07/28 from 11-12 pm: Carla Kaplan, Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford

    The Mount and its glorious gardens

    Venue Details:

    The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home

    2 Plunkett Street
    Lenox, MA 01240 United States
    Phone:
    (413) 551-5111

    Host Details:

    The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home

    Phone:
    (413) 551-5111
    Email:
    info@edithwharton.org
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