Summer Lecture Series

  • Forever Seeing Beauties by Eve Kahn
  • Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener by Kimberly A. Hamlin
  • All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf by Katharine Smyth
  • Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Nicholas A. Basbanes
  • My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland
  • Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri K. Greenidge
  • The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood by Donna Rifkind
  • The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War

Postponed: Summer Lecture Series

Our lecture series is postponed until state and local officials permit in-person events with appropriate safety measures in place. In the meantime we are offering a new online companion series DISCOURSE & PROCESS CHATS (June 8 – July 27) which gives the authors an opportunity to discuss elements of the writing and research process.

You can also listen to audio recordings from each author, introducing the subject of their book. Scroll down to get started.

The 2020 Summer Lecture Series Authors

Listen as our authors introduce their books to you!

Books featured in the 2020 Summer Lecture series may be purchased  from The Bookstore in Lenox. Matt will arrange for shipping or a curbside pick-up.

We would like to thank Blantyre, a Relais & Chateau property, for their generous donation and support of this season’s Summer Lecture Series at The Mount.