{"id":58547,"date":"2023-10-10T15:47:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=58547"},"modified":"2023-10-10T15:53:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:53:58","slug":"walter-isaacson-on-the-craft-of-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2023\/10\/walter-isaacson-on-the-craft-of-biography.html","title":{"rendered":"Walter Isaacson on the Craft of Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>He titled his lecture &#8216;Lessons About Living with Geniuses.&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture: Walter Isaacson, \u201cLessons About Living with Geniuses\u201d\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AlBqprmhbhs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <em><strong>&#8216;My road to biography began at TIME magazine.&#8217;<\/strong><\/em> <br>His lecture was presented by the CUNY Graduate Center with the Leon Levy Center for Biography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;My road to biography began at TIME  magazine.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>He titled his lecture \u2018Lessons About Living with Geniuses.\u2019 His latest biography is about Elon Musk. His previous biographies were about Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Jennifer Doudna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18,4,20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-media","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/WALTER-ISAACSON.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-fej","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58547"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58568,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58547\/revisions\/58568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}