Conversations from the Cullman Center: What She Ate: Laura Shapiro and Francine Prose

Date and Time
October 11, 2017
Event Details

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There is no charge for attendance, however, seating is not guaranteed without reservations. All unclaimed seats are released 10 minutes before start time, so we recommend arriving early. Doors open at 6:30. 

 

Laura Shapiro and Francine Prose talk about Shapiro’s new book, What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food that Tells Their Stories. The six women Shapiro writes about are Dorothy Wordsworth, Rosa Lewis (an Edwardian-era Cockney caterer), Eleanor Roosevelt, Eva Braun, Barbara Pym, and Helen Gurley Brown.  

 

Laura Shapiro is the author of Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century; Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America; and Julia Child: A Life. She has written about food for Newsweek, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Gourmet, and her awards include a James Beard Journalism Award and one from the National Women’s Political Caucus. Shapiro worked on What She Ate while in residence at the Cullman Center in 2009-2010.

Francine Prose, a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard, is the author of twenty works of fiction, including, most recently, Mister Monkey and Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932. She is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine, a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and a former president of PEN American Center. She has received the Edith Wharton Achievement Award for Literature, Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships, and many other grants and awards. She was a Cullman Center Fellow in 1999-2000.