Sarah Bakewell | Rebecca Mead

The New York Times called Sarah Bakewell’s biography of Montaigne “a delightful conversation across the centuries.” Now, she comes to LIVE for a conversation with Rebecca Mead that is equally sure to delight, about her own life, work, and influences.

SARAH BAKEWELL is the author of three biographies, most recently How to Live: A Life of Montaigne (Other Press, 2011), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2011.  She normally lives in the U.K., where she teaches Creative Writing at Kellogg College, Oxford, but she is spending spring 2015 in New York as writer in residence at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.  She is currently finishing a book about existentialism.  

REBECCA MEAD is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding and My Life in Middlemarch.  She lives in Brooklyn.

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