Boston Book Festival

PRESENTING PARTNER: 90.9 WBUR Boston's NPR News Station

2011 Event Descriptions

True Story

2:30pm Back Bay Events Center Quincy 180 Berkeley Street

Some stories you just can't make up.  Learn about three wildly different amazing-but-true stories from masters of the craft. Join Mitchell Zuckoff, author of Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II, Michael Willrich, author of Pox: An American History, and Emma Rothschild, author of The Inner Life of Empires. A stimulating session for lovers of non-fiction, moderated by Robin Young, host of Here and Now on WBUR 90.9 FM. Sponsored by WBUR 90.9 FM.

True Story session audio