Prize-winning authors Adam Hochschild and T.J. Stiles compare notes on the high art of taking historical facts and transforming them into potent narratives.  

The American Academy of Arts and Letters honored Hochschild for his work, which has ranged from depictions of a fraught relationship with his father to brutality in colonial Africa and opposition to the First World War.  

Stiles won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt.  He has also written about Jesse James, and is now researching the life of George Armstrong Custer.  

Julia Flynn Siler, a veteran Wall Street Journal writer and herself the author of two narrative histories, will guide the conversation.

This event is open to the public and sponsored by UC Berkeley Extension.