Wellfleet Public Library

Authors in Conversation: Mary V. Dearborn and Eric Laursen

Mary V. Dearborn is the author of seven books, the most recent a biography of Ernest Hemingway. She received a B.A. in English and Classics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. She was most recently a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Her other books include Ernest Hemingway: A Biography, Mailer: A Biography, and Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy. Guggenheim. She lives in Buckland, Massachusetts.

Eric Laursen is an independent journalist, historian, and activist. He is the author of The People's Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security_ Since Reagan, The Duty_ to Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort, and The Operating System: Anarchist Theory of the Modern State. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including In These Times, The Nation, and The Arkansas Review. He lives in Buckland, Massachusetts.