VICTORIA WILSON: Half a Century at the Heart of American Publishing

For half a century, Victoria Wilson has been one of the most admired and influential figures in American publishing. As Vice President and Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf, she has worked with Anne Rice, Lorrie Moore, Christopher Plummer, Billy Dee Williams, George Stevens, Suzanne Simard, Wendy Wasserstein, Arthur Laurents, Lauren Bacall, Eve Babitz, Rose Styron, Amy Klobuchar, Laurie Colwin, Peter Beard, Mary Ellen Mark, Jill Ciment, Sapphire, Jane Alexander, Jacques d'Amboise, Erin Brockovitch, and many many more. Since leaving Knopf, she has continued to work as a consulting editor and as a writer. Her A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 was published to great acclaim (“Monumental.” -- Peter Bogdanovich; “Huge and wonderful and rich. ” -- Anne Rice; “860 glittering pages” -- Janet Maslin, The NYT ), and she is at work on the concluding volume of the Stanwyck biography. Wilson has served on many boards and was appointed by President Clinton to the US Commission on Civil Rights.

Our interviewer will be Foster Hirsch, Professor of Film at Brooklyn College and the author of 16 books on film and theater including The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir; Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King; and, most recently, Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher--Television. His editor has been Victoria Wilson.

The evening will begin at 6:30 with a WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION, with the interview starting at 7 pm.

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Special thanks to Haynes Boone LLP for generously hosting this event.