The Neilly Author Series: Dorothy Wickenden

Tuesday, October 19
  6–7 p.m. (ET)
Virtual Event

Presented by the River Campus Libraries, the University of Rochester Virtual Book Club, and the Women’s Network

In this Neilly Series talk, Wickenden will discuss her new book, The Agitators. The book tells the story of America before, during, and after the Civil War, through the intimate perspective of three friends and neighbors in Auburn, New York—Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Coffin Wright. Wickenden will reflect on the parallels between the era leading up to the Civil War and our current era as she seeks to inspire the "agitator" inside us all.

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About Dorothy Wickenden
Dorothy Wickenden is The New York Times bestselling author of Nothing Daunted and The Agitators, and has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since January 1996. She also writes for the magazine and is the moderator of its weekly podcast, Politics and More. A former Neiman fellow at Harvard, Wickenden was a national affairs editor at Newsweek from 1993-1995, and before that was the longtime executive editor at The New Republic. She lives with her husband in Westchester, New York.

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