Hollywood icons, change-making cinema, music innovators are not quickly forgotten. In this session, authors Kirk Ellis, David Leaf and Todd S. Purdum will discuss how icons stay with us and continue to make an impact.
| Where: | UA Campus Store Stage (Seats 250)   |
| When: | Sat, Mar 14, 4:00 pm - 4:55 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Lower Level (following presentation)
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| Genre: | History / Biography |
| Moderator: | Jeff Yanc |
| Sponsors: | Session made possible courtesy of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity - Arizona Alpha Chapter, UA Campus Store |
Kirk Ellis is the multiple Emmy-winning screenwriter of HBO’s John Adams, the Apple TV+ limited series, Franklin, and other works of historical drama, including "Anne Frank: The Whole Story" and "Into the West....
David Leaf is an award-winning writer, director, and producer whose most recent books are "SMiLE: The Rise, Fall & Resurrection of Brian Wilson" and "God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys & the California Myth....
Todd S. Purdum worked at The New York Times, covering politics and later served as diplomatic correspondent and Los Angeles bureau chief. Besides being a staff writer at Vanity Fair, Politico, and The Atlantic, he authored "Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution" and "An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964....
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