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Must You Like Your Subject?

Can biographers be “objective” about their subjects? What if we come to loathe them? Do they have rights that we should keep in mind—even after death?

Moderator
Brian Jay Jones is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling biographer of “slightly off-center American geniuses” (Washington Post). His most recent book is Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination (Dutton, 2019), but he’s also the author of Washington Irving (Arcade, 2008),  Jim Henson: The Biography (Ballantine, 2013), and George Lucas: A Life (Little, Brown, 2016), which means he’s officially covered a large part of your childhood. He is currently at work on a history of the U.S. Capitol.

Panelists
Allen C. Guelzo is senior research scholar at the Council of Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of several books about the Civil War and early 19th-century American history. He has been the recipient of the Lincoln Prize three times, the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize for Military History, and many other honors. His Robert E. Lee: A Life, a timely and widely praised reappraisal of the Confederate general, was published by Knopf in 2021.

Mary Jordan is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The Washington Post and a bestselling author. Her book, Trump on Trial, coauthored with her husband and Washington Post colleague Kevin Sullivan, features reporting from dozens of Washington Post journalists, and traces the investigation, acquittal, and aftermath of the impeachment of Donald Trump. Jordan’s New York Times bestselling book, The Art of Her Deal, an unauthorized biography of Melania Trump, was published in June 2020. Jordan and Sullivan are also authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland, the story of Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, who were kidnapped in Cleveland and held for a decade. They previously wrote The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia’s Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail. They were the Washington Post’s co-bureau chiefs in Tokyo, Mexico City, and London for fourteen years.

Larry Tye is a New York Times bestselling author whose most recent book is Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy. Tye’s first book, The Father of Spin, is a biography of public relations pioneer Edward L. Bernays. His Satchel (2009) is the biography of two American icons–Satchel Paige and Jim Crow. Superman (2012) tells the nearly real-life story of the most enduring American hero of the last century. Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon (2016) explores RFK’s amazing transformation from cold warrior to fiery leftist. Tye is now writing, for HarperCollins, The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Satchmo Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America.