Fresh Ink
March 19: Melanie Benjamin, 7:00 p.m. April 16: Elizabeth Kostova, 7:00 p.m.
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MELANIE BENJAMINFriday, March 19, 7:00 p.m.
Horchow AuditoriumThe March Late Night celebrates Lewis Carroll’s literary masterpiece Alice in Wonderland and Tim Burton’s movie adaptation starring Johnny Depp and Anne Hathaway. Come explore Wonderland, enjoy a Mad Hatter’s tea party, and delve into Melanie Benjamin’s debut novel, Alice I Have Been (January 12, 2010). This spellbinding historical novel, based on remarkable research, is an imaginative rendering of the life of Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves, the girl who inspired Lewis Carroll. Benjamin was inspired to write Alice’s story when she saw an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago called Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll. Alice’s father was the Dean of Christ Church at Oxford, where her family lived across the street from mathematics professor Charles Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll. During the 1860s, Dodgson told the Liddell children stories as they picnicked in the English countryside, but then a rift occurred between him and the Liddell family that no one ever spoke of again. What happened that fateful summer when “wonderland” was born? In the book, eighty-two-year-old Alice mines her way to the heart of this question. Alice I Have Been captures the passionate spirit of a woman who was truly worthy of her fictional alter ego.
“Focusing on three eras in Alice’s life, Benjamin offers a finely wrought portrait of Alice that seemingly blends fact and fiction. This is book club gold.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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ELIZABETH KOSTOVAFriday, April 16, 7:00 p.m.
Horchow AuditoriumApril’s Late Night celebrates the exhibition The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850–1874. Elizabeth Kostova’s highly anticipated second novel, The Swan Thieves (January 12, 2010), resonates with this same setting and time period. The central character is a painter whose great talent is hindered by his troubled mind. This story of obsession, history’s losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope will captivate readers. Kostova’s epic novel The Historian (2005), about Vlad the Impaler(the real-life Dracula), was the first debut novel ever to enter the New York Times Best Seller list at #1. It now boasts an estimated four million copies worldwide.
Tickets to Fresh Ink programs are included with paid admission to the Museum.
Order tickets in advance to guarantee your seat.
ORDER ONLINE or call 214-922-1818
Photo Credits:
Melanie Benjamin: Photo by Dennis Hauser Elizabeth Kostova: Photo by Deborah Feingold Arts & Letters Live is supported by the Kay Cattarulla Endowment for the Literary and Performing Arts, TACA, The George and Fay Young Foundation, The Hoglund Foundation, The Eugene McDermott Foundation, and Annual Series Supporters. Additional support provided by Friends of the Dallas Public Library. Air transportation provided in part by American Airlines. Hotel accommodations provided in part by The Adolphus. Promotional partners include The Dallas Morning News, Einstein Printing, and 
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