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Amanda Foreman

Amanda Foreman is the author of the prize-winning best sellers, ‘Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire', and 'A World on Fire: A Epic History of Two Nations Divided'. She is currently a columnist for 'The Wall Street Journal'. Her latest work is the BBC documentary series, 'The Ascent of Woman'. In 2016, Foreman served as chair of The Man Booker Prize. Her book on the history of women, 'The World Made by Women', will be published in 2019. She is a co-founder of the literary nonprofit, House of SpeakEasy Foundation, a trustee of the Whiting Foundation, and an Honorary Research Senior Fellow in the History Department at the University of Liverpool. Amanda lives in New York with her husband and five children.

Coming in 2019

The World Made By Women: a narrative history of women from prehistory to present day. It is time for the history of women to break free from the straight jacket of Women's History. The history of women is the history of the world.

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Saturday, October 20
BAM and the Onassis Cultural Center New York present “On Confronting Silence” in conjunction with “Measure for Measure”
https://www.bam.org/talks/2018/on-confronting-silence

Monday, November 12
Speaking Engagement, the Potomac School
https://www.potomacschool.org/

Thursday, December 6
Speaking Engagement, Philips Academy Andover
https://www.andover.edu

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