Moderating Panel Discussion at BIO Conference on Agatha Christie
May 15, 2021 at 11:30am
What can biographers who work in different media learn from one another—and teach the rest of us? Join a documentary filmmaker, a print biographer, and a graphic biographer as they explore how they addressed the same fascinating subject, the “Queen of Crime,” Agatha Christie. Moderated by Laurie Gwen Shapiro.
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Book Reading to Support KGB Bar’s famous lit series
Online January 17, 2021 at 7pm
Laurie is going to give us a glimpse of her upcoming, highly anticipated nonfiction book about Amelia Earhart as part of KGB Bar’s “Beginnings in Real Life” fundraising event.
Book Club Moderation with Poster House Book Club
Online June 25, 2020 at 6:30pm
Author Session at American Society of Journalists and Authors Conference
April 20, 2020 at 9:45pm
Downtown New York Marriott
85 West Street at Albany Street
New York, NY
Laurie will be appearing in an author session titled “The Journalist’s
Path to Biography” at the ASJA’s 49th Annual Writers Conference
Author Talk
February 13, 2020 at 7pm
The Mariners’ Museum and Park
Newport News, Virginia
Stuyvesant Author Panel
December 2, 2019 at 6:30pm
Upper East Side
New York, NY
Book Reading at Ansche Chesed
June 24, 2019 at 8pm
Ansche Chesed
251 W 100th St
New York, NY
Centennial of the Algonquin Round Table
June 12, 2019
Algonquin Hotel
New York, NY
The Stowaway Live Interview with Hugh Thomson
April 11, 2019
Scott Polar Research Institute
Christ Church, Cambridge
Paperback Launch
February 19, 2019 at 7:30pm
KGB Bar’s Red Room
85 East 4th St.
New York, NY
Author Talk
November 14, 2018 at 4:40pm
The Ohio State University Main Library
Ohio State University
Writers Conference
October 12-14, 2018
Richmond, Virginia
16th Annual James River Writers Conference
Laurie Gwen Shapiro will be on three panels on the James River Writers conference this October.
The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: Dawn Raffel with Laurie Gwen Shapiro
October 17, 2018 at 6:30pm
Mid-Manhattan Library at 42nd Street
New York, NY
Moderating “New York’s Gargoyles”
October 2, 2018 at 6:30pm
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn, NY
New York’s Gargoyles: The Immigrants Who Made Them and the Hunters Who Saved Them
From the 19th-century European artisans who incised their imaginations into NYC’s ever-taller edifices, to the obsessive gargoyle hunters who rescued this distinctive American art form from ruin in the postwar period, John Freeman Gill tells a sweeping story of the creation, near demise, and ultimate salvation of some of the city’s most extraordinary visages. Join Gill, author of The Gargoyle Hunters: A Novel, for an illustrated talk about this quintessential New York adventure story. Moderated by journalist and documentary filmmaker Laurie Gwen Shapiro.
$10 / $5 for Members
Author Talks
August 11, 2018 at 6pm
East End Books
Provincetown, Cape Cod
July 25, 2018 at 12 noon
Rogers Memorial Library
Southampton, NY
May 21, 2018 at 7:30pm
Closter Public Library
Closter, NJ
Biography Panel
May 18-20, 2018
Leon Levy Center for Biography
Telling Life Stories: What Biographers Can Learn from Narrative Nonfiction
This panel will consider how biographers can use the elements of narrative nonfiction to tell (and sell) engaging life stories. “Narrative nonfiction” basically means telling true stories that read like novels. The panelists will discuss how they developed their life stories, focusing on narrative elements such as plot, scene, voice, imagery, and theme. This panel is for everyone wondering how to tell their story, how to attract an agent or editor to their story, or how to make their story impossible to put down.
Moderator: Anne Boyd Rioux
Panelists: Alan Pell Crawford, John Matteson, and Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Author Talk at NYPL
May 2, 2018 at 6:30pm
Mid-Manhattan Library at 42nd St.
The true story of a teen from the Lower East Side who hitched a ride to Antarctica.
Documentary filmmaker and journalist Laurie Gwen Shapiro will be in conversation with Adam Langer, culture editor at the Forward, about this audacious stowaway and the era he represents. This is a free event but advance registration is recommended.
Tarrytown, NY Author Visit
April 22, 2018 at 2pm
Warner Library
Tarrytown, NY
Moderating “Persistence” Panel in NYC
April 21, 2018 from 5-6:30 pm
Dixon Place
New York, NY
Very honored and thrilled to be moderating a panel for PEN America and PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature on the theme of persistence.
Maplewood, NJ Author Visit
April 14, 2018 at 5pm
Words Bookstore
Maplewood, NJ
NYC Event
April 5, 2018 at 6:30pm
Seward Park Library
Boston Reading
Rescheduled: March 22, 2018 at 7pm
Newtonville Books
NYC Book Reading
March 14, 2018 at 6:30pm
New York Society Library
The Lower East Side’s Untold Story of Stowaway Explorers
March 8, 2018 from 7-8pm
Essex Street Market
Book Presentation
February 23, 2018
Larchmont Yacht Club
Laurie Gwen Shapiro presents her book The Stowaway. Details to come.
Sacramento Reading
February 4, 2018 from 1-3 pm
Avid Reader Books
Book Reading
February 3, 2018 from 5-6:30 pm
pages: a bookstore
Manhattan Beach, CA
Join us for a special appearance of Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of “The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica” on sale January 16, 2016.
Book Reading
January 28, 2018 from 3-5 pm
Rough Draft Bar and Books
Kingston, NY
Come hear Laurie Gwen Shapiro read from her new book, The Stowaway, and discuss it in conversation with Kingston Writers’ Studio operator and Longreads Essays Editor Sari Botton.
Book Party
January 19, 2018 from 6-8 pm
Untapped Cities Offices
New York, NY
Untapped Cities is excited to host a book party for author Laurie Gwen Shapiro during the launch week of her highly anticipated first non-fiction book, The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica.
Book Launch
January 16, 2018 from 6:30-8:30 pm Sold out
January 23, 2018 from 6:30-8:30 pm Second date
South Street Seaport Museum, NYC
Join the Seaport Museum, along with Simon & Schuster, Atlas Obscura, and Untapped Cities to celebrate the book launch of Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s new book, The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica. The evening’s conversation will be moderated by Daniel Zalewski, Features Editor at The New Yorker.
The Stowaway Available January 2018
Order from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local independent bookstore.
Online June 25, 2020 at 6:30pm
More info and registration
Book Club Moderation with Poster House Book Club
Online June 25, 2020 at 6:30pm
More info and registration
Author Session at American Society of Journalists and Authors Conference
April 20, 2020 at 9:45pm
Downtown New York Marriott
85 West Street at Albany Street
New York, NY
Laurie will be appearing in an author session titled “The Journalist’s
Path to Biography” at the ASJA’s 49th Annual Writers Conference
Author Talk
February 13, 2020 at 7pm
The Mariners’ Museum and Park
Newport News, Virginia
More info under “Evening Lectures”
Stuyvesant Author Panel
December 2, 2019 at 6:30pm
Upper East Side
New York, NY
Book Reading at Ansche Chesed
June 24, 2019 at 8pm
Ansche Chesed
251 W 100th St
New York, NY
Centennial of the Algonquin Round Table
June 12, 2019
Algonquin Hotel
New York, NY
The Stowaway Live Interview with Hugh Thomson
April 11, 2019
Scott Polar Research Institute
Christ Church, Cambridge
Paperback Launch
February 19, 2019 at 7:30pm
KGB Bar’s Red Room
85 East 4th St.
New York, NY
Author Talk
November 14, 2018 at 4:40pm
The Ohio State University Main Library
Ohio State University
Writers Conference
October 12-14, 2018
Richmond, Virginia
16th Annual James River Writers Conference
Laurie Gwen Shapiro will be on three panels on the James River Writers conference this October.
The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: Dawn Raffel with Laurie Gwen Shapiro
October 17, 2018 at 6:30pm
Mid-Manhattan Library at 42nd Street
New York, NY
Moderating “New York’s Gargoyles”
October 2, 2018 at 6:30pm
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn, NY
New York’s Gargoyles: The Immigrants Who Made Them and the Hunters Who Saved Them
From the 19th-century European artisans who incised their imaginations into NYC’s ever-taller edifices, to the obsessive gargoyle hunters who rescued this distinctive American art form from ruin in the postwar period, John Freeman Gill tells a sweeping story of the creation, near demise, and ultimate salvation of some of the city’s most extraordinary visages. Join Gill, author of The Gargoyle Hunters: A Novel, for an illustrated talk about this quintessential New York adventure story. Moderated by journalist and documentary filmmaker Laurie Gwen Shapiro.
$10 / $5 for Members
Author Talks
August 11, 2018 at 6pm
East End Books
Provincetown, Cape Cod
July 25, 2018 at 12 noon
Rogers Memorial Library
Southampton, NY
May 21, 2018 at 7:30pm
Closter Public Library
Closter, NJ
Biography Panel
May 18-20, 2018
Leon Levy Center for Biography
Telling Life Stories: What Biographers Can Learn from Narrative Nonfiction
This panel will consider how biographers can use the elements of narrative nonfiction to tell (and sell) engaging life stories. “Narrative nonfiction” basically means telling true stories that read like novels. The panelists will discuss how they developed their life stories, focusing on narrative elements such as plot, scene, voice, imagery, and theme. This panel is for everyone wondering how to tell their story, how to attract an agent or editor to their story, or how to make their story impossible to put down.
Moderator: Anne Boyd Rioux
Panelists: Alan Pell Crawford, John Matteson, and Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Author Talk at NYPL
May 2, 2018 at 6:30pm
Mid-Manhattan Library at 42nd St.
The true story of a teen from the Lower East Side who hitched a ride to Antarctica.
Documentary filmmaker and journalist Laurie Gwen Shapiro will be in conversation with Adam Langer, culture editor at the Forward, about this audacious stowaway and the era he represents. This is a free event but advance registration is recommended.
Tarrytown, NY Author Visit
April 22, 2018 at 2pm
Warner Library
Tarrytown, NY
Moderating “Persistence” Panel in NYC
April 21, 2018 from 5-6:30 pm
Dixon Place
New York, NY
Very honored and thrilled to be moderating a panel for PEN America and PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature on the theme of persistence.
Maplewood, NJ Author Visit
April 14, 2018 at 5pm
Words Bookstore
Maplewood, NJ
NYC Event
April 5, 2018 at 6:30pm
Seward Park Library
Boston Reading
Rescheduled: March 22, 2018 at 7pm
Newtonville Books
NYC Book Reading
March 14, 2018 at 6:30pm
New York Society Library
The Lower East Side’s Untold Story of Stowaway Explorers
March 8, 2018 from 7-8pm
Essex Street Market
Book Presentation
February 23, 2018
Larchmont Yacht Club
Laurie Gwen Shapiro presents her book The Stowaway. Details to come.
Sacramento Reading
February 4, 2018 from 1-3 pm
Avid Reader Books
Book Reading
February 3, 2018 from 5-6:30 pm
pages: a bookstore
Manhattan Beach, CA
Join us for a special appearance of Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of “The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica” on sale January 16, 2016.
Book Reading
January 28, 2018 from 3-5 pm
Rough Draft Bar and Books
Kingston, NY
Come hear Laurie Gwen Shapiro read from her new book, The Stowaway, and discuss it in conversation with Kingston Writers’ Studio operator and Longreads Essays Editor Sari Botton.
Book Party
January 19, 2018 from 6-8 pm
Untapped Cities Offices
New York, NY
Untapped Cities is excited to host a book party for author Laurie Gwen Shapiro during the launch week of her highly anticipated first non-fiction book, The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica.
Book Launch
January 16, 2018 from 6:30-8:30 pm Sold out
January 23, 2018 from 6:30-8:30 pm Second date
South Street Seaport Museum, NYC
Join the Seaport Museum, along with Simon & Schuster, Atlas Obscura, and Untapped Cities to celebrate the book launch of Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s new book, The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica. The evening’s conversation will be moderated by Daniel Zalewski, Features Editor at The New Yorker.
The Stowaway Available January 2018
Order from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local independent bookstore.