For more than 30 years, the Summer Lecture Series has brought insightful presentations highlighting recent works of memoir and biography to The Mount. After a successful launch of the Masters Series last summer, author André Bernard, former Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, will return for a second season of conversations with literary masters, all unquestionably at the top of their game!

June 14 at 5:00 pm: Roz Chast – I Must be Dreaming
July 8 at 4:00 pm and July 9 at 11:00 am: Natalie Dykstra – Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
July 12 at 5:00 pm: Dwight Garner – The Upstairs Delicatessen
July 15 at 4:00 pm and July 16 at 11:00 am: Rachel L. Swarns – 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold
July 22 at 4:00 pm and July 23 at 11:00 am: Peter Hessler – Other Rivers: A Chinese Education
July 26 at 5:00 pm: Lauren Groff – The Vaster Wilds
July 29 at 4:00 pm and July 30 at 11:00 am: Jonathan Eig – King: A Life