5 May
Babcock Lecture on Character in Memoir and Biography
Sunday 5 November, 11am PDT/7pm GMT
Zoom
Babcock Seminar in GLS - SFU
Sunday 5 November, 11am PDT / 7pm GMT
Online via Zoom
Alison Light – on Character in Memoir and Biography – in Conversation with Kate Kennedy
Alison Light, FBA FRSL FRHistS is a writer, critic and independent scholar. She is the author of five books to date. In 2020 A Radical Romance, was awarded the Pen Ackerley prize, the only prize for memoir in the UK. Common People: The History of an English Family was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.
Kate Kennedy, FRHistS is a biographer and broadcaster, Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, and a Supernumerary Fellow in Life-Writing at Wolfson College.
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