Chautauqua Speaks: Discovering the Unsung Heroines

As we celebrate the women who were “icons and instigators,” there are many women’s stories that remain to be told. Sara Fitzgerald, an award-winning biographer and former Washington Post editor, shares the stories of the little-known women whose lives she has studied: the top woman in the Republican Party of the 1960s, the secret American love of the poet T. S. Eliot and the women who challenged sex discrimination at American universities in the 1970s. A member of the board of the Biographers International Organization, Fitzgerald will briefly highlight other women that biographers are now discovering—and the challenges authors face when they delve into those stories.

Venue located on Chautauqua Institution grounds; a gate pass is required.