A COMPANY OF AUTHORS 2026
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For the 23rd consecutive year, a distinguished group of Stanford writers will present brief talks on their recently published books. The program is hosted by Peter Stansky, Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford. Attendees are welcome to drop in or, better yet, spend the entire afternoon in the company of these engaging and thought-provoking writers. Join us in person or online. Co-sponsored by Stanford Continuing Studies and the Stanford Humanities Center.
SCHEDULE
1:00 pm – Welcome
Peter Stansky
1:05 – 1:35 pm
Panel 1 – Communism, Law and Crime
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Chair: Peter Stansky
- Charles G. Palm, Documenting Communism: The Hoover Project to Microfilm and Publish the Soviet Archives
- Alan O. Sykes, The Law and Economics of International Trade Agreements
- David A. Sklansky, Criminal Justice in Divided America: Police, Punishment, and the Future of Our Democracy
1:45 – 2:15 pm
Panel 2 – Writing
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Chair: Bruce Thompson
- Laura Goode, Pitch Craft: The Writer’s Guide to Getting Agented, Published, and Paid
- Thomas Ehrlich, Murder at Seascape
- Shane Denson, Bride of Frankenstein
2:25 – 2:55 pm
Panel 3 – The Wide World
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Chair: Leslie Friedman
- Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, 90 Seconds to Midnight: A Hiroshima Survivor’s Nuclear Odyssey
- John G. Brock-Utne, Memories from the German Occupation of Norway 1940–45
- Leslie Friedman, Coming Home to India
3:05 – 3:35 pm
Panel 4 – Literature
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Chair: Roland Greene
- Keith Ekiss, Burial Fragments: Poems
- Adam Johnson, The Wayfinder: A Novel
- Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Jim: The Lives and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade
3:45 – 4:15 pm
Panel 5 – History
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Chair: Carolyn Lougee
- Rowan Dorin, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe
- Gordon H. Chang, War, Race, and Culture: Journeys in Trans-Pacific and Asian American Histories
- Jonathan Clark, Ottawa, Illinois: 1967
4:25 – 4:55 pm
Panel 6 – Coping with America
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Chair: Larry Horton
- William B. Gould IV, Those Who Travail and Are Heavy Laden: Memoir of a Labor Lawyer
- Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein, We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care (presented by Liran Einav)
- Mark G. Kelman, Understanding Harm: How the Law Should Assess Injury
5:05 – 5:35 pm
Panel 7 – Dealing with the World
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Chair: Charlie Junkerman
- Keith Michael Baker, Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror
- Dan Edelstein, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin
- Steven J. Zipperstein, Philip Roth: Stung by Life