Name: Pico Iyer
Start: 2024-09-30T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-30T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Carnegie Music Hall

Paradise: that elusive place where the anxieties, struggles, and burdens of life fall away. Most of us dream of it, but each of us has very different ideas about where it is to be found. For some it can be enjoyed only after death; for others, it’s in our midst—or just across the ocean—if only we can find eyes to see it.
Pico Iyer was born in Oxford, England to parents from India. He was educated at Eton, Oxford, and Harvard, and earned master’s degrees from Oxford and Harvard as well as an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters. In 2019, he was a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton. Iyer is the author of fifteen books, translated into twenty-three languages, and has been a constant contributor for more than thirty years to Time, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and more than 250 other periodicals worldwide. His four recent talks for TED have received more than eleven million views. Since 1992, he has been based in Western Japan with his wife, while spending part of each year in a Benedictine hermitage in California.
Copies of The Half Known Life are available to purchase from White Whale Bookstore. After the lecture, the author will sign books in the Music Hall Foyer.