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Schedule:
8:45 - Zoom opens
9:00 - 1st Presentation: “All I Didn’t Know: Riddling Out ENDPAPERS" with Alexander Wolff
10:00 - Short screen break
10:30 - 2nd Presentation: “Teaming up with Chance Similarities and Differences in Drawing and Writing" with Char Gardner
11:30 – Closing remarks
At 9:00 sharp, Alexander Wolff, author of Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home will take the stage to share some of his research techniques (till 10:00).
The dilemma Wolf faced: How best to tell an intergenerational, transnational family saga, featuring two German-born men who became American citizens, when most of the primary sources are in another language or archived in another country? Wolff knew his grandfather had fled the Nazis, and that his own father had fought for them, but not much beyond that.
Wolff’s Answer: He explains how he went about researching and writing Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home, and explores strategies and techniques that any writer can use to help bring a reported memoir to life.
Alexander Wolff spent 36 years on staff at Sports Illustrated and has written or edited a dozen books, including The Audacity Of Hoop: Basketball And The Age Of Obama; the New York Times bestseller Raw Recruits; and Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure, which the Times named a Notable Book. His most recent book, Endpapers, was a finalist for the Vermont Book Award. He is a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton and now lives with his family in Cornwall, Vermont.
We take a short break and come back together at 10:30.
At 10:30 Char Gardner will share her expertise in the process of “Teaming up with Chance Similarities and Differences in Drawing and Writing."
Char, who is a life-long visual artist, has had her work exhibited since 1974 in many juried and group exhibitions. From 1989-1998, she was represented by The Foundry Gallery in Washington, DC.
She is also an essayist. Since 2012, her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Green Mountains Review and elsewhere. Awards include the Carol Houck Smith Award from The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Neil Shepard Creative Nonfiction Prize from the Green Mountain Review.
Char Gardner worked for thirty years, along with her husband, Rob Gardner, making documentary films for television. She lives with her husband and Lars, a wire-hair Dachshund, in the Green Mountains of Vermont, where she is at work on a memoir.
See some of Char’s amazing art at https://www.instagram.com/chargardner/?hl=en