2022 Nonfiction Author Series

Monday, January 17, 2022

Monday, February 14, 2022

Catherine Grace Katz is a writer and historian from Winnetka, IL.  She graduated from Harvard in 2013 with a BA in History and received her MPhil in Modern European History from Christ’s College, University of Cambridge in 2014, where she wrote her dissertation on the origins of modern counterintelligence practices.  After graduating, Catherine worked in finance in New York City before a very fortuitous visit to the bookstore in the lobby of her office in Manhattan led her to return to history and writing.  She is currently pursuing her JD at Harvard Law School.  The Daughters of Yalta is her first book.

Monday, March 7, 2022

Monday, March 28, 2022

Jonathan Kaufman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has written and reported on China for thirty years for The Boston Globe, where he covered the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square; The Wall Street Journal, where he served as China bureau chief from 2002 to 2005; and Bloomberg News. He is the author of A Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jewish in Eastern Europe and Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. He is director of the School of Journalism at Northeastern University in Boston.

Read more about it here:  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555510/the-last-kings-of-shanghai-by-jonathan-kaufman/