FestivalandCo, The Shakespeare and Company Literary Festival

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	Thursday 12 June	Friday 13 June	Saturday 14 June	Sunday 15 June
11h-11.50h	Anton Gill: Art Lover - The Life & Times of Peggy Guggenheim. Introduced by John Baxter. In English / bilingual Q&A.	Alistair Horne: Paris: Biography of a City, a Sentimental journey. Introduced by John Baxter. In English / bilingual Q&A.	Shiv Malik: Biography and Journalism in the Age of Terrorism. Introduced by JS Rafaeli. In English.	John Baxter: Man Bites Biographer: How to Survive When A Biography Goes Wrong. Introduced by Heather Hartley. In English / bilingual Q&A.
12h-12.50h	Alicia Drake: After The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris. Introduced by Heather Hartley. In English / bilingual Q&A.	Victoria Glendinning: Memoirs versus Biographies. Introduced by Chip Martin. In English.	Veronica Buckley: In the Shadow of the Sun King. In conversation with Susannah Clapp. In English.	Susannah Clapp: With Chatwin - The Editor's Story. In conversation with Chip Martin. In English.
13h-13.50h	Tété-Michel Kpomassie: An African in Greenland. Introduced by Chip Martin. In English / bilingual Q&A.	Rachel Cusk: Motherhood and Memoir. In conversation with Janine di Giovanni. In English, extract read in French.	A.C. Grayling: Descartes' Mind, Descartes' Body. Introduced by Alan Jenkins. In English.	Hermione Lee: Biography and the Case of Edith Wharton. In English.
14h-14.50h	Blake Morrison: Life Writing and Remembered Lives. In English.	English PEN presents Another Sky in Paris chaired by former English PEN president Victoria Glendinning. In English.	Paul Auster reads from his upcoming novel Man in the Dark. In English.	André Schiffrin: My Political Education. In conversation with Ian Jack. In English / bilingual Q&A.
15h-15.50h	Carolyn Burke: Biography and Serendipity: In édith Piaf's Footsteps. Introduced by Chip Martin. In English / bilingual Q&A.	A.M. Homes: Secrets, Lies and the Truth In Between. Introduced by Ian Jack. In English.	Jeanette Winterson: How to Tell the Truth - Autobiography and Invention. Introduced by Sylvia Whitman. In English.	Catherine Millet on her upcoming memoir Jour de Souffrance. Introduced by Thomas Wieder. In French / bilingual Q&A.
16h-16.50h	Jung Chang: My Personal Journey Towards the Understanding of Mao. Introduced by Janine di Giovanni. In English.	Luke Davies on Candy and God of Speed. Introduced by Chip Martin. In English.	Alain de Botton: Status Anxiety: Successful and Failed Lives. Introduced by JS Rafaeli. In English / bilingual Q&A.	Marjane Satrapi: Drawing a Life: Biography and the Graphic Novel. Introduced by Joan Dupont. In English / bilingual Q&A.
17.15h-18.30h	1928: Orlando, The Well of Loneliness and The Ladies Almanack: Jeanette Winterson and Diana Souhami in conversation. In English.	I Am the Other: Conversation between Béatrice Commengé and Amélie Nothomb. In French.	The New York Review of Books panel: Obama - Biography of a DividedNation, with André Kaspi, William Pfaff, Darryl Pinckney. In English.	Memoir and Fiction panel chaired by Ian Jack, with A.M. Homes and Siri Hustvedt. In English.