Judith Nies
Author Bio Judith Nies JUDITH NIES is an author, essayist, and teacher. She has worked as a journalist, teacher, historian, researcher, and speechwriter. Her memoir and narrative history of the 1960s THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND was published in June 2008 by Harper Collins. Her books include: Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition, which has been in print for over thirty years (UCal Press, 2002, first published as Seven Women, Viking Penguin, 1977), and Native American History (Ballantine, 1996). Her essays and reviews have been published in The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Progressive, American Voice, Orion. Her essay "The Black Mesa Syndrome," which was a finalist for the John Oaks Environmental Journalism Award, is included in the anthology The Future of Nature (Milkweed Press 2008). Awards include a Bunting Fellowship at Harvard/Radcliffe, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio grant, Ludvig Vogelstein Foundation grant and residences at MacDowell, Mesa Refuge, and Yaddo artists colonies. She teaches writing at Massachusetts College of Art and is a member of PEN America. She grew up in Swampscott, Massachusetts and currently lives in Cambridge. |
Previous Book/Author Events
2009 Author Events May 7th, 2009 Awards Event 5:30 - 9:00 Health Quarters -- Remarkable Women Georgetown Country Club Georgetown, MA April 26, 2009 10:30 AM Ethical Society Longy School of Music Cambridge, MA April 15, 2009 Writers Life Writing Personal History Cambridge Adult Ed Weds. 8:00 PM March 11, 2009 "Books of Our Time" Mass School of Law Andover, MA Will be broadcast on Comcast Cable February 4, 2009 PEN New England Author Talk and Reading Hotel Marlowe Cambridge MA January 29, 2009 Thursday Morning Talks "THe Good Wife and Other Double Binds Remappping the 1960s" Armenian Church11:00am 145 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA October 15, 2008 6:30 pm Spirit of '76 Bookstore Marblehad, MA Author's Talk September 20, 2008 Saturday 1PM Cornerstone Books 45 Lafayette Street Salem, MA September 22, 2008 Tuesday 7PM Rochambeau Library Providence, RI (with Books on the Square) Book Club Discussions: September 7, Marblehead, MA September 8, Cambridge, MA August, Brookline Bookclub July 16, 2008 Wednesday 7PM Politics and Prose Bookstore 5015 Conn. Ave. NW Washington, DC August 17, 2008 Sunday 7PM Where the Sidewalk Ends Chatham, MA August 20, 2008 Wednesday 7PM Brookline Booksmith Brookline, MA Past Events:
BOOK LAUNCH PARTY June 19, 2008 7:00 pm Porter Square Books Cambridge, MA Reading and Reception May 19, 2007 Super Seminar Tufts University Women and the 1960s A conversation with Prof. Linda Bamber Macrh 13, 2007 "Author, Author" Boston Women Communicators Lenox Hotel, 6-9pm Boston January 25,2007 Cambridge Center for Adult Education A conversation about "A Girl I Left Behind" and women's lives in the 1960s April 2, 2005 Teaching American History The Women's Rights Movement Bridgewater State College Bridgewater, MA PEN Author Readings from New Work Hotel Marlowe Cambridge, MA March 3, 2005 5:30 - 7:30 Reading, The Girl I Left Behind June 22, 2004 Emerson College Publishing Course Graduation Speaker April 27, 2004 Women's National Book Association Boston Public Library, 7:00 PM "Writing Women's Lives" The art and craft of biography November 5, 2003 7:30 pm The First and Second Church, Boston 66 Marlborough Street Boston "Dorothy Day and Mother Jones: Radical Women and Religion" June 2, 2003 7pm Los Angeles Public Library Author Series A conversation on the tradition of social activism in the U.S. 2003 Los Angeles Public Library Author Series 7PM A conversation about the tradition of social activism in the U.S. June 2nd, 2003 www.lapl.org Dartmouth College Hanover, NH March 29, Book Store signing March 30 –Talk, Dartmouth Women’s and Gender Studies Center Woodstock Library Woodstock, Vermont January 11,2003 Sunday Authors Talk 2002 Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies Harvard University November 17, 2002 Cambridge, MA Wellesley College Zeta Alpha House Meet the Author November 2, 2002 Wellesley, MA Wellfleet Library Wellfleet, MA August 19, 21, 2002 Writers workshop and reading |
