2010 Presenters
Caroline Alexander
A contributing writer for The New Yorker, Granta, and National Geographic, Caroline Alexander is the author of three books, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, and, most recently, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War, which Ken Burns praised as "a spectacular and constantly surprising new book... a triumph."
Delivering a goundbreaking reading of the Iliad that restores Homer's vision of the tragedy of war, Alexander uncovers why "the epic of all epics" has had such a profound impact on our culture. Called "spirited and provocative... a nobly bold, even rousing adventure," Steve Coates of the New York Times says " it would be hard to find a faster, livelier, more compact introduction."
LINKS:
Archived news about Caroline Alexander in The New York Times
Video: Alexander discusses her book, The War That Killed Achilles
Video: Alexander gives a lecture on The War that Killed Achilles
Audio: Alexander appears on NPR to discuss The War that Killed Achilles
