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@Macaulay Author Series Featuring Michael Schnayerson with Jonathan Alter

Michael Shnayerson, contributing editor to Vanity Fair, shares his latest,The Contender: A Biography of Andrew Cuomo.  Jonathan Alter will interview Shnayerson. Alter is an author, reporter, columnist, television analyst, and a producer of the political comedy “Alpha House.”

The event is free and open to all.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Andrew Cuomo is the protagonist of an ongoing political saga that reads like a novel. In many ways, his rise, fall, and rise again is an iconic story: a young American politician of vaunting ambition, aiming for nothing less than the presidency (Amazon).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Michael Shnayerson became a contributing editor at Vanity Fair in 1986 and has since written more than 75 stories for the magazine, most recently reporting on the environmental hazards in the U.S., and investigating the likelihood of hacking into voting machines. He began his career in 1976 as a reporter at the Santa Fe Reporter and moved to Time as a staff writer in 1978. In 1980 he became editor in chief of Avenue. He has been a consulting editor at Condé Nast Traveler since its inception in 1987. Shnayerson is the author of Irwin Shaw: A Biography (Putnam, 1989) and The Car That Could: The Inside Story of GM’s Revolutionary Electric Vehicle (Random House, 1996), which was named one of the best business books of 1996 by BusinessWeek; and he is the co-author, with Mark J. Plotkin, of The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria (Little, Brown, 2002) and co-author of Harry Belafonte’s memoir My Song (Knopf, 2011). @mbshnay

THE @MACAULAY AUTHOR SERIES: Offering unique previews of new work by the season’s best writers of fiction and nonfiction, paired in conversation with distinguished interviewers and an audience drawn from throughout the city, the @MACAULAY AUTHOR SERIES takes place in the beautiful and historic Macaulay building. Sponsored by Friends of Macaulay. For more information please visit http://macaulay.cuny.edu/community/author-series











When: Tue., Apr. 21, 2015 at 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where: Macaulay Honors College
35 W. 67th St.
212-729-2900
Price: Free
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Michael Shnayerson, contributing editor to Vanity Fair, shares his latest,The Contender: A Biography of Andrew Cuomo.  Jonathan Alter will interview Shnayerson. Alter is an author, reporter, columnist, television analyst, and a producer of the political comedy “Alpha House.”

The event is free and open to all.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Andrew Cuomo is the protagonist of an ongoing political saga that reads like a novel. In many ways, his rise, fall, and rise again is an iconic story: a young American politician of vaunting ambition, aiming for nothing less than the presidency (Amazon).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Michael Shnayerson became a contributing editor at Vanity Fair in 1986 and has since written more than 75 stories for the magazine, most recently reporting on the environmental hazards in the U.S., and investigating the likelihood of hacking into voting machines. He began his career in 1976 as a reporter at the Santa Fe Reporter and moved to Time as a staff writer in 1978. In 1980 he became editor in chief of Avenue. He has been a consulting editor at Condé Nast Traveler since its inception in 1987. Shnayerson is the author of Irwin Shaw: A Biography (Putnam, 1989) and The Car That Could: The Inside Story of GM’s Revolutionary Electric Vehicle (Random House, 1996), which was named one of the best business books of 1996 by BusinessWeek; and he is the co-author, with Mark J. Plotkin, of The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria (Little, Brown, 2002) and co-author of Harry Belafonte’s memoir My Song (Knopf, 2011). @mbshnay

THE @MACAULAY AUTHOR SERIES: Offering unique previews of new work by the season’s best writers of fiction and nonfiction, paired in conversation with distinguished interviewers and an audience drawn from throughout the city, the @MACAULAY AUTHOR SERIES takes place in the beautiful and historic Macaulay building. Sponsored by Friends of Macaulay. For more information please visit http://macaulay.cuny.edu/community/author-series

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