PEOPLE
Saturday, September 28, 2024  3:00 – 4:30 PM ET (eastern time, USA)

Two John Singer Sargent portraits of Isabella Stewart Gardner painted decades apart spectacularly delineate the audacious collector, but how? Robert Mapplethorpe takes a dozen photographs of Patti Smith for the cover of her first album Horses, but only one emerges as iconic. Paul Auster cries just once after his father’s sudden death, and that is when he collects his father’s neckties, an article of clothing that speaks most directly of and for the man.

What can we learn from these artists as we write our people onto our pages? What new tools and wisdoms can we apply to the stories that we tell? In this one-of-a-kind masterclass, Beth Kephart presents brand new possibilities, offers original prompts inspired by the art, and deconstructs her own approach to writing characters.

One hour and fifteen minute lecture / fifteen minute Q and A session.