The Right Sort of Girl: Amelia Earhart, Invention, and Imagination

Date: 

Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 4:00pm

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Harvard Radcliffe Institute Knafel Center 10 Garden Street Cambridge OR Online on Zoom

    
Boylan is the author of 16 books, a trustee of PEN America, and the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University. In this event, Boylan will talk about her project writing a novel, inspired by Amelia Earhart and told in the voices of three women at three moments in the history of American feminism, which she researched at the Schlesinger Library.

A novelist, memoirist, and short story writer, she is also a nationally known advocate for human rights. For many years, Boylan was a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and she has appeared on Fresh Air, Larry King Live twice, Marketplace, Talk of the Nation, The Barbara Walters Special, The Oprah Winfrey Show on four occasions, and Today.

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