30th Gala Celebration
Join us for a celebration under the stars with award-winning
biographers and historians celebrating 30 years of memorable lectures!
Friday, June 30, 2023
5:30 PM: Cocktails in the Garden
6:30 PM: Dinner in the Forecourt
The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home
2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA
-
Friday, June 30, 4pm
Wharton specialists and literary experts Jennifer Haytock, Sheila Liming, and Nathan Wolff share their views on why Edith Wharton’s writings remain relevant today, moderated by Wharton scholar and Barnard College American Studies Chair Jennie Kassanoff. Cocktail and dinner celebration will immediately follow. -
Saturday, July 1, 11am
Sylvia Plath, Louisa May Alcott, and Gertrude Stein authorities Heather Clark, John T. Matteson, and Barbara Will compare notes on the challenge and pleasure of writing the lives of women ahead of their time, moderated by former host of WAMC’s The Book Show and Guggenheim fellow Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina.
-
Saturday, July 1, 2pm
Washington Post columnist Max Boot, international affairs correspondent Anne Nelson, and New York Times contributor Ted Widmer share their war-reporting experiences and observations on ongoing global conflicts, including the war in Ukraine, moderated by former ABC news bureau chief and Angela Merkel biographer Kati Marton.