Lectures from the Allen Room & Wertheim Study: Novelists and Their Research: Where They Find It, How They Use It, Do They Ever Play Fast and Loose With It: a Panel Discussion

Ellen Feldman, a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, is the author, most recently, of The Unwitting.   Her previous novels are Scottsboro, which was shortlisted for the UK’s prestigious Orange Prize, The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank, which was translated into nine languages, Next to Love, and Lucy.

Suzanne Harper is the author of The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney, which received starred reviews and was named to the Texas Lone Star Reading List, the NYPL Best Books for Teens and the Book Sense Children’s Pick list.  She has since published another novel for teens, The Juliet Club, and a three-book middle-grade series, The Unseen World of Poppy Malone.

Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer.  She is currently working on a novel about memory loss.

Joseph Kanon is the author of six novels.  Los Alamos (Edgar Award for Best First Novel), The Prodigal Spy, The Good German, Alibi (Hammett Prize), Stardust, and most, recently, Istanbul Passage, a New York Times bestseller.  He is also the recipient of the Anne Frank Human Writes Award for his writings on the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Moderated by --- Patricia King

Writing as Annamaria Alfieri, Patricia King has written four historical mysteries—City of Silver (Potosi 1650), Invisible Country (Paraguay 1868), Blood Tango (Buenos  Aires, 1945), and Strange Gods (British East Africa 1911). She researched all of them in the precious, precious collection of The New York Public Library.