Participating in the event are Kenneth T. Jackson, the Jacques Barzun professor in history and the social sciences at Columbia; E. L. Doctorow, the Lewis and Loretta Glucksman professor in American letters at New York University; William Kennedy, author of Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes; James G. Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian; Kevin Baker, author of Dreamland and Paradise Alley; Nancy Horan, author of Loving Frank; Thomas Fleming, author of Liberty Tavern and The Officers’ Wives; Mark Carnes, professor of history at Barnard College; John Demos, the Samuel Knight professor of history emeritus at Yale University; and Jane Kamensky, the Harry S. Truman professor of American civilization at Brandeis University.
All panels and lectures will take place at the Faculty House at Columbia University. For a detailed schedule of events, please visit the "Fiction and History" website.
This event is co-sponsored by the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History, University Seminars, the Friends of the Columbia Libraries, and Seminar on the City.