Daniel Mark Epstein

Daniel Mark Epstein

Daniel Mark Epstein has written two books on Abraham Lincoln — The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage and Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington — in addition to biographies of Aimee Semple McPherson, Nat King Cole, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. He has also written several plays and seven poetry collections, and his poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review, among other publications. The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Epstein the Rome Prize in 1977 and an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2006, and his other honors include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. For more information, visit www.danielmarkepstein.com.

Event
Lincoln Scholars, Part I: Daniel Mark Epstein and Andrew Ferguson
When: Tue, Sep 23, 10am – 12pm
Where: Dewberry Hall South, Johnson Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (map)
Description: Part of a day-long series of events looking toward the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, this panel features Daniel Mark Epstein, author of both Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington and The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage, and Andrew Ferguson, author of Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s America. Moderated by presidential historian Richard Norton Smith, scholar-in-residence in Mason’s School of Public Policy and Department of History and Art History. Sponsored by Gale Cengage Learning, the Finley Lecture Series of the Department of History and Art History, and Mason’s Office of University Life.