True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy - Kati Marton in conversation with Larissa MacFarquhar

Date and Time
September 13, 2016
Event Details

The Library welcomes award-winning journalist Kati Marton on the occasion of the publication of her new book True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy. She is joined by The New Yorker's Larissa MacFarquhar, a former Cullman Center Fellow, for a discussion of Noel Field, a once well-meaning American turned Stalinist spy. The two journalists come together to explore this real-life spy thriller, laden with historical relevance. 

Kati Marton has combined a career as a writer with human rights advocacy. From 2003 to 2008 Marton chaired the International Women’s Health Coalition, a global leader in promoting and protecting the health and human rights of women and girls.  From 2001 to July 2002 Kati Marton was Chief Advocate for the Office of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict at the United Nations. From 2000 to 2011 she was a member of the board of Human Rights Watch.  Marton is currently a director and formerly chair of the Committee to Protect Journalists. She also serves on the board of directors of the International Rescue Committee and the New America Foundation, a public policy think tank.  She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, P.E.N. International and the Author’s Guild, and sits on the board of Central European University.

Larissa MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. Her subjects have included John Ashbery, Barack Obama, and Noam Chomsky, among many others. Previously she was a senior editor at Lingua Franca and an advisory editor at The Paris Review. Her first book, Strangers Drowning, which she worked on as a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, was a finalist for the Library's Bernstein Award. She lives in New York.

Program is free, but advance registration is recommended.