The legendary Rose Styron, with Foster Hirsch & Victoria Wilson
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About the Event
Coffee House Club’s Talk of the Town series continues with its incredible second installment, and Salmagundi members are invited to join in.
The legendary Rose Styron will be visiting to speak with Victoria Wilson; her editor for the memoir, Beyond This Harbor (Knopf) and Foster Hirsch – and discuss her celebrated, magical life.
Poet, international human rights activist, founding member of Amnesty International USA, journalist, hostess, famous beauty; discoverer of Philip Roth, longtime wife of Bill Styron, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and essayist, and together, America’s literary golden couple at home and abroad; lifelong friend to everyone from Truman Capote and Robert Penn Warren to the Kennedys, the Bernsteins, Alexander Calder, John Hersey, and Lillian Hellman… Sytron will talk about it all. We can’t wait to see you there!
“[Rose Styron] has lived a life in interesting times, among legendary characters, a life well worth telling—and reading about.”
—The Washington Post
About the Accompanying Speakers
Foster Hirsch is the author of 16 books on subjects related to theatre and film.
As Vice President, Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Victoria Wilson has worked with many writers, among them: Walter Abish, Alice Adams, Diane Ravitch, Laurel Ulrich, Susan Cheever, Eve Babtiz, Mary Beth Norton, Amy Klobuchar, Anne Somerset, Laurie Colwin, Peter Beard, Lauren Bacall, Diane Johnson, Mary Ellen Mark, William Gass, Brenda Wineapple, Peter Bogdanovich, Lorrie Moore, Anne Rice, Arthur Laurents, Sarah Chayes, Billy Dee Williams, Philippe Sands, Jill Ciment, George Stevens, Sapphire, Christopher Plummer, Helen Simpson, Meryle Secrest, Suzanne Simard, Ruth Gruber, Wendy Wasserstein, Jane Alexander, Rose Styron, Jacques d’Amboise, Amy McGrath and Erin Brockovitch.
After five decades at Knopf (a run almost as long as that of Alfred Knopf himself who was at the company he founded for 57 years, and Bob Gottlieb, her boss and mentor), Wilson has left to write full time and act as a consulting editor at Knopf.
Her acclaimed biography, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940, was published by Simon & Schuster. She is at work on the concluding volume of the Stanwyck biography.
Wilson has served on the board of PEN, Poets & Writers, was Vice President of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, and was appointed by President Clinton to the US Commission on Civil Rights.