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SUMMARY:On Biography: Julia Cooke & Lance Richardson
DESCRIPTION:Authors Julia Cooke (Starry and Restless) and Lance Richardson (True Nature) sit down to discuss their new biographies. Both works explore the lives of trailblazing journalists and activists. Moderated by journalist Charley Locke.  \nAbout Starry and Restless:\nThe page-turning story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world\, work\, and journalism. \nShe hid on a Red Cross boat to reach Omaha Beach on D-Day. She walked the abandoned streets of Hong Kong to take food to her daughter’s father\, a prisoner of war. She fought off the advances of overzealous Yugoslavian diplomats\, found overlooked details of world history in a dentist’s kitchen in Sarajevo. She traveled alone to Mexico. She traveled alone to Congo. She traveled alone to the American South. She married Hemingway. She married a Chinese poet-playboy-publisher\, then married a British war hero. She fell in love with H. G. Wells. She gave birth and raised a child on her own. She landed on the front page of the newspaper. She wrote for the great magazines of her time—Vogue\, The New Yorker\, Harper’s Bazaar. She wrote a play. She wrote a memoir. She wrote a genre-breaking travel narrative. She wrote bestsellers. She wrote and wrote and wrote. She changed the very way we think about writing and the way journalists craft stories—which sources are viable\, which details are important—and the way women move and work in the world. \nShe was Martha Gellhorn. She was Emily “Mickey” Hahn. She was Rebecca West. Each woman was starry-eyed for success\, for adventure\, and helped ensure that other starry and restless women could make unforgettable lives for themselves. They fought for their lives and their work. They were praised and criticized for it all. \nIn language as lively and nimble\, in passages as intimate and adventurous\, and with conviction as fierce and indefatigable as her subjects’ own\, Julia Cooke’s Starry and Restless plays out the stories of three women across three decades and five continents. Martha\, Mickey\, Rebecca—journalists\, authors\, mothers\, lovers\, friends. These women didn’t just bear witness to the great changes of the twentieth century; their curiosity\, grit\, ambition\, and stories changed the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout True Nature:\nThe firstbiography of Peter Matthiessen\, the novelist\, naturalist\, and Zen roshi\, whose trailblazing work championed Native American rights and helped usher in the modern environmental movement\, by award-winning writer Lance Richardson. \n“A stunning\, formidable achievement by a brilliant biographer. Lance Richardson takes his readers on a wild ride with Peter Matthiessen.” —Kai Bird\, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus \n“A fair-minded\, grippingly paced\, and tremendously readable narrative.” —Pico Iyer\, Air Mail \nPeter Matthiessen (1927-2014)\, a towering figure of twentieth-century American letters\, achieved so much during his lifetime\, in so many different areas\, that people have struggled to pin him down. While ambivalent about his WASP privilege—as a teenager he demanded that his name be removed from the New York Social Register—he attended Yale and cut his teeth in postwar Paris\, co-founding The Paris Review as he worked undercover for the CIA. But then\, after a rebellious stint as a Long Island fisherman\, he escaped into a series of wild expeditions: floating through the Amazon to recover a prehistorical fossil; embedding with a tribe in Netherlands New Guinea; swimming with sharks off the coast of Australia. His novels\, inspired by his travels\, were unclassifiable meditations about Caymanian turtle hunters and frontier outlaws in the Florida Everglades. Meanwhile\, his nonfiction became legendary: nature books like Wildlife in America—“key parts of the canon of emergent environmental writing\,” says Bill McKibben—as well as advocacy journalism supporting Cesar Chavez\, Leonard Peltier\, and Native American land claims. \nUnderlying all Matthiessen’s disparate pursuits was the same existential search—to find a cure for “deep restlessness.” This search was most profoundly articulated in The Snow Leopard\, his famous account of a 250-mile wildlife survey across the Himalayas. In True Nature\, Lance Richardson reconstructs the full scope of a spiritual quest that ultimately led Matthiessen\, even as he inflicted great pain on his family\, to the highest ranks of Zen. Drawing on rich primary sources and hundreds of interviews\, Richardson depicts Matthiessen’s life with page-turning immediacy\, while also illuminating how the writer’s uncanny gifts enabled him to sense connections between ecological decline\, racism\, and labor exploitation—to express\, eloquently and presciently\, that “in a damaged human habitat\, all problems merge.”
URL:https://pdxbookfest.org/event/on-biography/
LOCATION:The Old Church\, 1422 SW 11th Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97205
CATEGORIES:Nonfiction Events
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