Biographer Nancy Milford will speak on "The Fever Heroine:...," as part of the President's Lecture Series. Her lecture begins at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, in Room 101 of the Salomon Center for Teaching. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Milford is best known as the author of Zelda, a biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, which has been translated into 12 languages. The New York Times chose it as one of the 10 most notable books of 1970, calling it the "new biography of women's lives of which it is exemplary."
Among her awards are the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Readers' Digest Writing Fellowship, and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1995.
Milford is a member of the Board of Directors of the Writers Room of which she is a founder. She holds a Fulbright to Istanbul in 1996-1997. She is completing a biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay for Random House, and currently is a Walter H. Annenberg Fellow at Brown.