Past Events: BOOK LAUNCH PARTY June 19, 2008 7:00 pm Porter Square Books Cambridge, MA Reading and Reception May 19, 2007 Super Seminar Tufts University Women and the 1960s A conversation with Prof. Linda Bamber Macrh 13, 2007 "Author, Author" Boston Women Communicators Lenox Hotel, 6-9pm Boston January 25,2007 Cambridge Center for Adult Education A conversation about "A Girl I Left Behind" and women's lives in the 1960s April 2, 2005 Teaching American History The Women's Rights Movement Bridgewater State College Bridgewater, MA PEN Author Readings from New Work Hotel Marlowe Cambridge, MA March 3, 2005 5:30 - 7:30 Reading, The Girl I Left Behind June 22, 2004 Emerson College Publishing Course Graduation Speaker April 27, 2004 Women's National Book Association Boston Public Library, 7:00 PM "Writing Women's Lives" The art and craft of biography November 5, 2003 7:30 pm The First and Second Church, Boston 66 Marlborough Street Boston "Dorothy Day and Mother Jones: Radical Women and Religion" June 2, 2003 7pm Los Angeles Public Library Author Series A conversation on the tradition of social activism in the U.S. 2003 Los Angeles Public Library Author Series 7PM A conversation about the tradition of social activism in the U.S. June 2nd, 2003 www.lapl.org Dartmouth College Hanover, NH March 29, Book Store signing March 30 –Talk, Dartmouth Women’s and Gender Studies Center Woodstock Library Woodstock, Vermont January 11,2003 Sunday Authors Talk 2002 Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies Harvard University November 17, 2002 Cambridge, MA Wellesley College Zeta Alpha House Meet the Author November 2, 2002 Wellesley, MA Wellfleet Library Wellfleet, MA August 19, 21, 2002 Writers workshop and reading |
Author Bio Judith Nies JUDITH NIES is an author, essayist, and teacher. She has worked as a journalist, teacher, historian, researcher, and speechwriter. Her memoir and narrative history of the 1960s THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND was published in June 2008 by Harper Collins. Her books include: Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition, which has been in print for over thirty years (UCal Press, 2002, first published as Seven Women, Viking Penguin, 1977), and Native American History (Ballantine, 1996). Her essays and reviews have been published in The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Progressive, American Voice, Orion. Her essay "The Black Mesa Syndrome," which was a finalist for the John Oaks Environmental Journalism Award, is included in the anthology The Future of Nature (Milkweed Press 2008). Awards include a Bunting Fellowship at Harvard/ |
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