“Telling
Secrets:
The Art of Biography” - A Lecture by
Diane Middlebrook - Writer & Emerita
Professor of English at Stanford University
Deadline: 9th March 2003
Date:
Monday 10th March
Time: 7.30
p.m.
Venue: Venue:Army
& Navy Club, 36 Pall Mall, London SW1 5JN
Is
Biography Art? If so, how does it
deal with the ethical problems raised in real life by
the biographers access to family secrets?
Professor Diane Middlebrook will discuss her experience
in handling such problems when writing the biographies
of the poet Anne Sexton and jazz musician Billy Tipton
and in her current book about the marriage of poets Ted
Hughes and Sylvia Path.
Professor Diane Middlebrook joined Stanford's English
Department in 1966. Professor Middlebrook received fellowships
from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Study
Center at Bellagio, and the Stanford Humanities Center.
Professor Middlebrook received both the Dean's Award
for Distinguished Teaching and the Walter J. Gores Award
for Excellence in Teaching. Middlebrook is the author of
Anne Sexton, A Biography, a finalist for the National
Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award,
and Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton. Currently,
Professor Middlebrook is working on a book about the
marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes that will be published
by Viking Press in 2003.
(For more background information - visit www.dianemiddlebrook.
com).
Ticket Price: £20.00 - includes wine and canapés
Bookings - Please email info@stanfordalumni.org.uk for a booking form.