Events
Breaking Silences: Using Intimate Biography to Uncover the Lives of Thomas Wen Yi Liao and Mary Mon Toy
SEMINAR FEATURING:
Kim Liao, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)
Marnie Mueller, Novelist
Moderator: Megan Marshall, Emerson College
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:15 PM.
Information and registration for in-person or online attendance at: https://www.masshist.org/events/breaking-silences
This program's guests—a first-time author and a veteran novelist—spent decades researching family histories shadowed by war, global politics, and anti-Asian racism. Kim Liao discovered a many-layered story suppressed both in her family and by the Taiwanese government featuring her grandfather, a leader of the Taiwanese independence movement after World War II. Marnie Mueller, born in a Japanese American concentration camp in 1942 and later befriended by Mary Mon Toy, a talented "showgirl" incarcerated in a different camp, became her friend's executor. After Mon Toy's death in 2009, a hidden life story emerged that begged to be told alongside Mueller's own long-concealed history. Learn about "intimate biography" from two authors who are inventing the form.
Join the conversation at the New England Biography Series. By providing an opportunity for those interested in the craft of biography to convene and converse, this series creates a community that will support biographical works in progress and help inspire future projects.
Nikkei Write Now Craft Session
Marnie is honored to have been invited to present at a Nikkei Write Now craft session on September 10, 2024.
The full transcript of her presentation can be read HERE.
Marnie appeared among an esteemed panel of national and international biographers and memoirists at the Annual Biographers International Organization on May 16 2024
Marnie is one of the subjects of the documentary film "Daughters" by the esteemed documentary filmmaker Manfred Kirchheimer. It premiered at the Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NYC, on Saturday, May 11, 2024
On April 11, 2024, Marnie was interviewed by Rosalind Reisner on her book, "The Showgirl and the Writer," in an online presentation by the Women's National Book Association's New York City Chapter
2016 EVENTS
March 24
THE COLOR OF CITIZENSHIP: THE IMPACT OF THE JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT DURING WWII--THEN AND NOW
Keynote Speaker at Austin Peay State University ASANBE ANNUAL DIVERSITY SYMPOSIUM
Clarksville, Tennessee
September 18
THE COLOR OF CITIZENSHIP: THE IMPACT OF THE JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT DURING WWII--THEN AND NOW
Sundays at the Library Series
Hotchkiss Library
Sharon, Connecticut
2015 EVENTS
"Sources and Secrets"
Panel discussion at 25th Anniversary of Women Writing Women's Lives
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
October 2 at 1:45 pm
Panelists: Carla Kaplan, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Marnie Mueller
2014 EVENTS
March 6
"Balancing the Personal and the Political"
Berkshire Festival of Women Writers
Kripalu Center
Lenox, Mass.
7 PM
Panelists: Carol Ascher, Laurie Lisle, Marnie Mueller
November 17
"Balancing Commitment and Craft in Political Fiction"
WNBA-NYC Chapter Event
Pace University, 551 Fifth Avenue, NYC
7PM
Panelists: Celine Keating, Elizabeth Nunez, Tiphanie Yanique, Ellen Meeropol, Marnie Mueller
2013 Events
November 12
"How I Got That Story"
Women's National Book Association
Pace University
6:30 PM
Panelists: Jean Fagan Yellin, Nancy Rubin Stuart, Diane Jacobs, Marnie Mueller, moderator Deirdre Bair
2005 EVENTS
January 13, 14, & 15
Writer in Residence
Bennington College Writing Seminars
Bennington, VT
Tuesday, May 17, 7:00 PM
Book Club discussion of My Mother's Island
Jonathan Trumbull Library
580 Exeter Road
Lebanon, Connecticut
For more information: 860-642-7763
Wednesday, May 25, 7:30 PM
Book Discussion
Saratoga Springs Public Library
49 Henry Street
Saratoga Springs, NY
For more information:
518-584-7860