{"title": "Hermione Lee, Anita Brookner: Art and Life", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "$15/$10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/biography"], "description": "A lecture and conversation open to the public, held in the Members' Room and online, about Hermione Lee's biography of the novelist Anita Brookner. Lee, a biographer and emeritus professor of English literature at Oxford, portrays Brookner as a formidable, witty, and private writer who was also a celebrated art historian and the author of twenty-five novels, including the Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac. 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