Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Tuesday, February 19th, from 6PM - 7PM
Join us for a Meet the Author event with Adina Hoffman, who will discuss her new book, Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures. In part an account of Hecht’s years in Chicago and his involvement with the city’s newspapers and with the Chicago Renaissance, Hoffman’s book draws heavily on the Newberry’s Modern Manuscripts collections. In her talk, Hoffman will discuss how she used the Newberry’s Hecht materials to research this larger-than-life character.
Hoffman is an award-winning essayist and biographer who has written extensively on the Middle East. She is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood; My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century; Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City; and, with Peter Cole, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, which won the American Library Association’s prize for the best Jewish book of 2011. A Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and one of the inaugural winners of the Windham Campbell Literary Prizes, she lives in Jerusalem and New Haven.
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures is part of the Yale University Press Jewish Lives series, designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity through interpretative biographies.
After her talk, the author will sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase in the Newberry Rosenberg Book Shop.
For more information, and to register, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ben-hecht-fighting-words-moving-pictures-tickets-47675660183
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