"The New School has invited distinguished and provocative writers, artists, and scholars from several disciplines to examine in a comprehensive public forum the nature of biography and how storytelling is changing in our culture. Panel discussions feature biographers, memoirists, poets, and novelists alongside anthropologists, literary scholars, documentary photographers, and filmmakers. Conference participants have also been invited to read or screen their work at a series of evening programs organized in collaboration with the Poetry Society of America. Participants include Frank Bidart, Pamela Clemit, Rosalind Morris, Jeanne Moskal, Nell Painter, Rick Woodward, and others to be announced.

Co-sponsored by the New School's Writing Program and Department of Social Sciences, the Poetry Society of America, Fence, and the Columbia Univ. Department of Anthropology with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Council for the Humanities."

Inscriptions: Anthropology; Biography; Poetry; Reading; Mixed Genre; Perfect History; Chamber Music; Fiction; Reading.