John J. Slocum, Jr. Memorial Lecture with Nicholas Shakespeare – “Ian Fleming and the Curse of James Bond”
Nicholas Shakespeare is a British prize-winning novelist and biographer, described by the Wall Street Journal as “one of the best English novelists of our time”. One of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 1993, his books have been translated into twenty-two languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and The Dancer Upstairs, which was made into a film of the same name by John Malkovich and chosen by the American Libraries Association as the Best Novel of 1995. His nonfiction includes the critically acclaimed authorized biography of Bruce Chatwin, In Tasmania, and Priscilla: the hidden life of an Englishwoman in Occupied France. His authorized biography of Ian Fleming recently won the Crime Writer’s Association Gold Dagger Award for the best non-fiction of 2024. His latest novel, Frame 37, is published by Penguin Random House. He has been longlisted for the Booker Prize twice, was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
This lecture is generously sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H. Ashford.
Thursday, June 25th
Reception – 5:00 pm
Lecture – 5:30 pm
followed by Book Signing
$30
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