About this Event
October 16, 5:30
Via Zoom
Streaming Provided by KidLit TV
Bank Street College, 5th Floor Library
Children’s Book Historian, Leonard Marcus, Dial “B” for Biography: My Quest for Margaret Wise Brown
Marcus will discuss his research process for his award winning book: Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon
This wide-ranging tale of literary detective work is an illustrated, behind-the-scenes look at the ten-year-long, no-stone-left-unturned research and writing adventure that culminated in Leonard S. Marcus’s award-winning biography, Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon. Through a combination of archival sleuthing, word-of-mouth networking, and sheer persistence, Leonard not only pieced together a vast array of unpublished letters, photographs, diaries, and other primary source materials (from the Bank Street Archive and numerous other collections), but also interviewed 100 of Brown’s closest collaborators, friends, and family members, and discovered the meaning for Brown of the special places from which she drew inspiration, from her wonderland “Only House” in seaside Maine to Ireland’s storm-tossed Ring of Kerry.
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Bank Street College, West 112th Street, New York, United States
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