1pm - 2pm: 'Writing the American Renaissance.' John Matteson (The Lives of Margaret Fuller), moderator. Jeffrey Cramer (The Portable Thoreau, ed.), Megan Marshall (Margaret Fuller: A New American Life), David S. Reynolds (Walt Whitman's America).

2:15pm - 3:15pm: 'Writing Jewish Lives.' Ruth Franklin (Shirley Jackson), moderator. Greg Bellow (Saul Bellow's Heart), Joshua Rubenstein (Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life), Steve Weitzman (Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom). Co-sponsored by the Jewish Lives series of Yale University Press.

3:30pm - 4:30pm: Hermione Lee (Virginia Woolf) in Conversation with Gary Giddins (Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams).

[coffee break]

5pm - 6pm: 'American Modernists.' Carol Sklenicka (Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life), moderator. Blake Bailey (Cheever: A Life), Alice Kessler-Harris (A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman), Richard Lingeman (American Journey: Theodore Dreiser).

6:15pm - 7:15pm: 'Founding Fathers as Literary Figures.' Annette Gordon-Reed (The Hemingses of Monticello), moderator. R.B. Bernstein (Thomas Jefferson), Eric Foner (Tom Paine and Revolutionary America), Peter Onuf (The Mind of Thomas Jefferson).