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Katharine Weber BiographyKatharine Weber is the author of the memoir "The Memory Of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family’s Legacy of Infidelities," and the novels "True Confections," "Triangle," "The Little Women," "The Music Lesson," and "Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear." Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, from The New York Times Book Review to The New Yorker, Southwest Review, Salon.com, Vogue, Tablet, The London Review of Books, Architectural Digest, and elsewhere. She is a Trustee and the Administrator of the Kay Swift Memorial Trust, which is dedicated to preserving and promoting the music of her maternal grandmother, Kay Swift, who composed the first Broadway musical with a score by a woman, “Fine and Dandy,” and other popular show tunes of the era, among them “Can’t We Be Friends?”
Katharine lives in Connecticut, spends parts of the year in Paris and in rural Ireland, and is a thesis adviser in the graduate writing program at Columbia University. She has recently been appointed the Richard L. Thomas Chair at Kenyon College, a five-year spring-term teaching position.
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The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear: A Novel
The Music Lesson: A Novel
True Confections: A Novel
Katharine Weber's immersion in the candy industry while she researched and wrote her satiric novel True Confections has given her an insider's knowledge of the delectable history and politics of chocolate and candy in America. Warning: This entertaining talk triggers chocolate and candy cravings and goes well with dessert!
As the granddaughter of an immigrant seamstress who finished buttonholes at the Triangle Waist Company in 1909, Katharine Weber's own family history was one of the inspirations for her fictional exploration of the events and consequences of that historic 1911 fire in her contemporary novel. (She appeared in the 2011 HBO 100th anniversary documentary film.) Her talk can be tailored for audiences interested in learning about the fire and its historic significance -
• from the ashes of the Triangle fire came regulation, empowered unions, and the New Deal -
• or for audiences interested in a discussion of this novel's depiction of and relationship to the historic events of the Triangle fire and its aftermath.
Katharine Weber's memoir, The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My family's Legacy of Infidelities, sheds light on her grandmother's romance with the celebrated composer (Kay Swift, composer of the enduring hit songs "Fine and Dandy" and "Can't We Be Friends?" was the love of George Gershwin's life, though she was married to banker Jimmy Warburg, her lyricist, for most of the decade of their romance), and offers a unique, insider's sense of
This talk can be enhanced by a cabaret-style musical performance, with Aaron Gandy, artistic advisor to the Kay Swift Trust (http://www.aarongandy.com/) at the piano, accompanying one or two vocalists singing Swift and Gershwin songs.
Katharine Weber's second novel, The Music Lesson, was the first of the "Vermeer novels" that flowed from many novelist's pens in the wake of the 1996 Vermeer exhibition in Washington and The Hague. In this illustrated talk she offers insights into how and why the intimacy and ambiguity of Vermeer's paintings invite the invention of narrative in such beguiling and enduring fashion.
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Katharine Weber is the author of the memoir "The Memory Of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family’s Legacy of Infidelities," and the novels "True Confections," "Triangle," "The Little Women," "The Music Lesson," and "Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear." Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, from The New York Times Book Review to The New Yorker, Southwest Review, Salon.com, Vogue, Tablet, The London Review of Books, Architectural Digest, and elsewhere. She is a Trustee and the Administrator of the Kay Swift Memorial Trust, which is dedicated to preserving and promoting the music of her maternal grandmother, Kay Swift, who composed the first Broadway musical with a score by a woman, “Fine and Dandy,” and other popular show tunes of the era, among them “Can’t We Be Friends?”
Katharine lives in Connecticut, spends parts of the year in Paris and in rural Ireland, and is a thesis adviser in the graduate writing program at Columbia University. She has recently been appointed the Richard L. Thomas Chair at Kenyon College, a five-year spring-term teaching position.
Contact a speaker booking agent to check availability on Katharine Weber and other top speakers and celebrities.
Katharine Weber's immersion in the candy industry while she researched and wrote her satiric novel True Confections has given her an insider's knowledge of the delectable history and politics of chocolate and candy in America. Warning: This entertaining talk triggers chocolate and candy cravings and goes well with dessert!
As the granddaughter of an immigrant seamstress who finished buttonholes at the Triangle Waist Company in 1909, Katharine Weber's own family history was one of the inspirations for her fictional exploration of the events and consequences of that historic 1911 fire in her contemporary novel. (She appeared in the 2011 HBO 100th anniversary documentary film.) Her talk can be tailored for audiences interested in learning about the fire and its historic significance -
• from the ashes of the Triangle fire came regulation, empowered unions, and the New Deal -
• or for audiences interested in a discussion of this novel's depiction of and relationship to the historic events of the Triangle fire and its aftermath.
Katharine Weber's memoir, The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My family's Legacy of Infidelities, sheds light on her grandmother's romance with the celebrated composer (Kay Swift, composer of the enduring hit songs "Fine and Dandy" and "Can't We Be Friends?" was the love of George Gershwin's life, though she was married to banker Jimmy Warburg, her lyricist, for most of the decade of their romance), and offers a unique, insider's sense of
This talk can be enhanced by a cabaret-style musical performance, with Aaron Gandy, artistic advisor to the Kay Swift Trust (http://www.aarongandy.com/) at the piano, accompanying one or two vocalists singing Swift and Gershwin songs.
Katharine Weber's second novel, The Music Lesson, was the first of the "Vermeer novels" that flowed from many novelist's pens in the wake of the 1996 Vermeer exhibition in Washington and The Hague. In this illustrated talk she offers insights into how and why the intimacy and ambiguity of Vermeer's paintings invite the invention of narrative in such beguiling and enduring fashion.
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Katharine Weber's immersion in the candy industry while she researched and wrote her satiric novel True Confections has given her an insider's knowledge of the delectable history and politics of chocolate and candy in America. Warning: This entertaining talk triggers chocolate and candy cravings and goes well with dessert!
As the granddaughter of an immigrant seamstress who finished buttonholes at the Triangle Waist Company in 1909, Katharine Weber's own family history was one of the inspirations for her fictional exploration of the events and consequences of that historic 1911 fire in her contemporary novel. (She appeared in the 2011 HBO 100th anniversary documentary film.) Her talk can be tailored for audiences interested in learning about the fire and its historic significance -
• from the ashes of the Triangle fire came regulation, empowered unions, and the New Deal -
• or for audiences interested in a discussion of this novel's depiction of and relationship to the historic events of the Triangle fire and its aftermath.
Katharine Weber's memoir, The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My family's Legacy of Infidelities, sheds light on her grandmother's romance with the celebrated composer (Kay Swift, composer of the enduring hit songs "Fine and Dandy" and "Can't We Be Friends?" was the love of George Gershwin's life, though she was married to banker Jimmy Warburg, her lyricist, for most of the decade of their romance), and offers a unique, insider's sense of
This talk can be enhanced by a cabaret-style musical performance, with Aaron Gandy, artistic advisor to the Kay Swift Trust (http://www.aarongandy.com/) at the piano, accompanying one or two vocalists singing Swift and Gershwin songs.
Katharine Weber's second novel, The Music Lesson, was the first of the "Vermeer novels" that flowed from many novelist's pens in the wake of the 1996 Vermeer exhibition in Washington and The Hague. In this illustrated talk she offers insights into how and why the intimacy and ambiguity of Vermeer's paintings invite the invention of narrative in such beguiling and enduring fashion.
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