15th annual bliss carnochan lecturer
April 20 , 2007
Max Byrd
Author
About the Speaker
MAX BYRD is the author of a number of scholarly books on 18th century English literature, including Visits to Bedlam and London Transformed. Winner of the Shamus Award for best paperback private detective novel, his oeuvre of detective novels include the Book-of-the-Month Club selection Target of Opportunity. Byrd is also the author of four historical novels: Grant: A Novel, Jefferson: A Novel, Jackson: A Novel, and Shooting the Sun. He currently serves as the president of the board of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.
Max Byrd has taught English at Yale and UC Davis, has been a visiting professor at Stanford, and has lectured at UC Berkeley, Warwick University, the Sorbonne, and Monticello. Among the many publications featuring Byrd’s articles and book reviews are the Yale Review, New York Times Book Review, New Republic, and Woodrow Wilson Quarterly. He has served as editor of the scholarly journal Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Max Byrd’s lecture will address historical fiction from Homer to Gore Vidal.
Program
Friday, April 20, 3:30 p.m.
Lecture
"The Historical Novel "
Levinthal Hall
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
Stanford UniversityFree and open to the public
Resources
Events
Book celebration
March 14 , 2006
2006 marked the thirteenth annual Humanities Center celebration to honor works written, edited, and performed by humanities faculty members at Stanford and published during the 2005 calendar year.
The annual "book" celebration has now expanded to include compact discs and other multimedia works.
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