Christopher Buckley - November 5, 2009 - Westbound Transatlantic - Cunard Insights features award-winning authors and playwrights on select Transatlantic Crossings as part of the Literature and Liners series. Through September 2009, your clients can look forward to engaging Q&A discussions, enlightening lectures, book signings and readings with acclaimed authors such as Christopher Buckley.
Mr. Buckley is the author of 14 books, including The White House Mess, Wet Work, Boomsday and Thank You For Smoking, which was made into a motion picture in 2005. He has also written over 60 comic essays for The New Yorker and is a regular contributor to The New York Times. In addition to being a prolific writer, he has also been the managing editor of Esquire magazine and chief speechwriter to President George H.W. Bush.
Lorella Brocklesby - August 23, 2009 - Eastbound Transatlantic
Lorella Brocklesby is a specialist in the cultural, architectural and design history of America and Europe. Brocklesby has been teaching at Parsons The New School for Design for 13 years where her courses have included "The History of Interior Design" and "Connections", a course which examines the stylistic developments of interiors, decorative arts and fine art. In addition to her work at Parsons, Brocklesby is an Adjunct Professor of Humanities at New York University where she has received an Award for Teaching Excellence. She also lectures frequently at many area museums and throughout Europe and Australia.
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John Guare - September 8, 2009 - Eastbound Transatlantic - Cunard Insights features award-winning authors and playwrights on select Transatlantic Crossings as part of the Literature and Liners series. Through November 2009, your clients can look forward to engaging Q&A discussions, enlightening lectures, book signings and readings with acclaimed writers such as John Guare.
John Guare has won the Obie, Tony, London's Olivier Award and three NY Drama Critics Circle Awards for such plays as The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation (for which he wrote the screenplay), and Two Gentlemen of Verona. He was also nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay of Louis Malle's Atlantic City. In addition to his writing, Guare founded and co-edits the Lincoln Center Theater Review, is a member of the Dramatists Guild and teaches playwriting at the Yale School of Drama.
CHRIS BENN - November 5, 2009 - Eastbound Transatlantic - Chris Benn is head of astronomy at the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, a site boasting one of the best night skies in the world for astronomy. Using the best of Europe's optical telescopes, including the world's largest, this renowned scientist investigates quasars and searches for planets around stars. He began his career as a physicist and radio astronomer and has also worked at Britain's first hands-on science centre before joining the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Benn is also the creator of the world's first four-dimensional crossword puzzle.
KATHY SULLIVAN - November 11, 2009 - Westbound Transatlantic - U.S. astronaut Dr. Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, joins the November 11 Westbound Crossing. As one of just 35 people selected from over 8,000 inaugural shuttle program applicants, Sullivan flew on three missions in 15 years with NASA and played major roles in the launch and repair of the Hubble Space Telescope. She has also served as the Chief Scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, lead COSI, a premier hands-on science education centre, and co-authored two books. Today, Dr. Sullivan leads a new centre focused on mathematics and science education policy at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs (Ohio State University).
Cruising on Cunard, from the US to England is fun ... You feel like you're headed to see the Queen !
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