Elizabeth Hawes is speaking on Albert Camus and her new book, Camus, A Romance, in the series Writers on Writing at the Center for Fiction (formerly the Mercantile Library, founded in 1820), 17 East 47th Street, New York City.
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Elizabeth Hawes is the author of Camus, A Romance and New York, New York, How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City, 1869-1930. A former staff member and contributor to The New Yorker, she has also written forThe New York Times Magazine and ...
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Women's Refugee Commission, Nature Conservancy