Judith Thurman with Julia Flynn Siler

4 MAY 2023 — thursday

The Mechanic's Institute presents biographer Judith Thurman, Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, winner of the National Books Award for Autobiography/Biography, discussing her new book, A Left-Handed Woman, a collection of Thurman's essays from The New Yorker that encompass a variety of topics, her first book in fifteen years, in conversation with journalist Julia Flynn Siler, The White Devil's Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown, Mechanics' Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, free for members, public sliding scale $5-$10, Noon PDT (Register to attend: www.milibrary.org/events/left-handed-woman-essays-may-04-2023)