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Founders and Endorsers
Those Who Attended the Framing Conference, May 17-18, 2007
Pierre Assouline, Le Monde, Paris – biographer of Georges Simeon, Georges Remi (Herge, etc.; columnist for Le Monde, Radiodiffusion Francais James Atlas, Atlas Books, New York City – biographer of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz Lois Banner, Department of History, USC – author of a joint biography of Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, currently working on a biography of Marilyn Monroe Nicholas Cull, Center for Public Diplomacy, USC James Curtis, independent author, Brea, Calif. – biographer of Preston Sturges, James Whale, W.C. Fields, and currently writing a biography of Spencer Tracy David James Fisher, practicing psychoanalyst, Los Angeles -- biographer of Romain Rolland Neal Gabler, independent author, NYC – biographer of Walter Winchell, Walt Disney, and a group biography of the Jews who “invented” Hollywood Josh Kun, School of Communication, USC Marc Pachter, director, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Tim Page, cultural affairs writer, The Washington Post, biographer of Dawn Powell Margaret Rosenthal, Italian-French Department, USC, biographer of Veronica Franco, consultant for the film based on that book, Dangerous Beauty Robert Rosenstone, Department of History, Cal Tech, author of a biography of John Reed, former Getty Center scholar-in-residence studying biography theory Stacy Schiff, independent author, NYC, biographer of St. Exupery, Vera Nabokov, contributor to The New York Times Ann Seaman, independent writer, Los Angeles, biographer of Jimmy Swaggart and Madalyn Murray O’Hair Steve Zipperstein, Department of English, Stanford University, co-editor of a Yale University Press series of 40 biographies of major Jewish figures
Invited but Unable to Attend the Framing Conference Due to Conflicts
A. Scott Berg, independent author, Los Angeles, biographer of Max Perkins, Samuel Goldwyn, Charles Lindbergh, a memoir of Katharine Hepburn, and currently working on a biography of Woodrow Wilson Douglas Brinkley, formerly professor of history, Tulane, now at Rice University; prolific World War II historian, biographer of Henry Ford, James Forrestal, and Rosa Parks, etc. Robert Dallek, Boston University, presidential historian, biographer of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, etc. Noel Riley Fitch, independent author, biographer of Sylvia Beach, Anais Nin and Julia Child Herman Gray, then UC Santa Cruz, now USC Department of Communication; biographer of John Coltrane Richard Holmes, University of East Anglia; biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, as well as two ruminations on the art of biography Robin Kelley, Department of History, USC; completing a biography of Thelonious Monk Kay Mills, independent author, Santa Monica; biographer of Fannie Lou Hamer Holly Schulman, Department of History, UVA; editor of an encyclopedia of Eleanor Roosevelt Lisa Shephard, independent author, Washington, D.C. Jean Strouse, director, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, NYPL; independent author, biographer of Alice James, and J.P. Morgan Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, practicing psychoanalyst, NYC; biographer of Anna Freud and Hannah Arendt; author or editor of various other works
People Subsequently Contacted Who Have Expressed Interest in the concept of a Consortium for the Study of Biography
Elinor Accampo, College dean of Graduate Programs, LAS, USC, author of a biography of Nellie Roussel Neil Baldwin, distinguished visiting professor of history at Montclair State University and co-chair of the NYU Biography Seminar. He is the author of biographies of William Carlos Williams, Man Ray, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. Ronald Cohen, professor emeritus, Indiana University North, editor of the Alan Lomax papers David Dunaway, Department of English, University of New Mexico Zachary Leader, visiting professor, University of Chicago, biographer of Kingsley Amis, currently writing a biography of Saul Bellow Myra MacPherson, independent writer, Washington, D.C. Jack Miles, UC Irvine, MacArthur Award winner, biographer of the Almighty, and of the Christus Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University, biographer of Ralph Ellison
People Who Having Learned of the Center Subsequently Contacted the Convener
Richard Freadman, Lingnan University, Hong Kong; La Trobe University, Melbourne Hershel Parker, University of Delaware professor emeritus; independent writer, Morro Bay, CA, author of a two-volume biography of Herman Melville Hannes Schweiger, Boltzman Institute for the History and Theory of Biography, Vienna, Austria Monica Soeting, University of Utrecht; editor of Biographie Bulletin, a journal published in the Netherlands Yumi Wilson, Department of Journalism, San Francisco State University
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