Dorothy O. Helly Lecture

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Lady Bird Johnson

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October 21, 2013

4:00 PM-5:30 PM

Room 9204

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The event is cosponsored by Writing Women’s Lives, Women’s Studies Certificate Program, Leon Levy Center for Biography, Center for Humanities, Master’s Programs in Liberal Arts, and Doctoral Programs in English and History.

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Betty Boyd Caroli is currently in the process of completing a biography of Lady Bird Johnson, to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2014.  For the purpose of this lecture she will share how her subject was chosen (after having written about all the first ladies), the major problems encountered while writing Lady Bird Johnson’s story, and the support system that helped her get the book written.

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A graduate of Oberlin College, Betty Boyd Caroli holds a master’s degree in Mass Communications from the Annenberg School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in American Civilization from New York University. A Fulbright scholar to Italy, she also held fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, the Hoover Presidential Library, and others. After studying in Salzburg, Austria and Perugia, Italy (but before joining the faculty at the City University of New York), she taught in Palermo and Rome, Italy. She currently resides in New York City and Venice, Italy.

Caroli is the author of The Roosevelt Women (Basic, 1998; 1999); America’s First Ladies (GuildAmerica, 1996) Inside the White House (Abbeville, 1992; expanded ed., GuildAmerica, 1999); Immigrants Who Returned Home (Chelsea, 1990); First Ladies (Oxford University Press, 1987; 1988; expanded eds., 1995, 2003, 2010) and many other books. Frequently appearing on national television and BBC to discuss the role of presidents’ wives in American politics, Caroli has been a guest on Today, The O’Reilly Factor, Lehrer NewsHour, “Book Notes” with Brian Lamb, and many others.

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