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FAU Book Festival Features Bernstein, Cumming, Stone And Perry
Oliver Stone, Carl Bernstein, Allan Cumming and Imani Perry will be in Boca Raton for Florida Atlantic University’s fifth Palm Beach Book Festival March 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the University Theatre on the Boca Raton campus.
Perry, author of “South to America” is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her other books include “Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry,” winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and “Breathe: A Letter to My Sons;” “Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation;” and “May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem.”
Cumming, the author of “Baggage: Tales from A Fully Packed Life” has been honored with a Tony, a BAFTA, and an Emmy nomination. He is the author of two children’s books, a book of photographs and stories, a novel, and the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, “Not My Father’s Son.”
Bernstein will talk about his novel “Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom.” Bernstein recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation’s capital — a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam.
Bernstein is the author or coauthor of five bestselling books, most notably “All the President’s Men,” written with Bob Woodward. He, Woodward and The Washington Post were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking and investigating the Watergate story, which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon and set the standard for modern investigative reporting. He has also penned biographies of Pope John Paul II and Hillary Clinton. He is an on-air political analyst for CNN and a contributing editor for Vanity Fair.
Stone will discuss “Chasing the Light.” This intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter, is about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat and his struggles and triumphs in filmmaking. Stone is the multiple Oscar-winning writer and director of films including “Platoon,” “JFK,” “Born on the Fourth of July,” “Natural Born Killers” and “Midnight Express.”
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