Julia Cooke is the author of the books Starry and Restless, Come Fly the World, a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist and a Malala Yousafzai’s Literati book club pick, and The Other Side of Paradise. Her essays have appeared in A Public Space, Salon, The Threepenny Review, Smithsonian, Tin House, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her reporting has been published in Condé Nast Traveler, The New York Times, Playboy, and other publications. She holds an MFA from Columbia University.
Authors Julia Cooke and Lance Richardson sit down to discuss their new biographies. Both works explore the lives of trailblazing journalists and activists. Moderated by journalist Charley Locke.
Julia Cooke reads from her new biography at the Portland Art Museum in the Nine Women Artists exhibition.
