Book Talk with Martha Ackmann
Tue., Aug. 4, 2026, 12 – 1 p.m. 
The fourth installment in our Radcliffe Book Talk series features Martha Ackmann RI ’09, author of Ain’t Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton (St. Martin's Press, 2025), a chronicle of the life and impact of the country music legend and philanthropist Dolly Parton.
Online Location: Please register for Zoom link
Gazette Classification: Humanities, Lecture
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Speaker(s): Martha Ackmann is the award-winning author of Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight (Penguin Random House, 2003); Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone: First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League (Chicago Review Press, 2010); and These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020). A theatrical adaptation of Curveball, titled Toni Stone and written by the former Radcliffe fellow Lydia Diamond, premiered Off Broadway in 2019. Ackmann’s essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Paris Review, and The Washington Post. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amelia Earhart Medal for aviation research, and the Special Media Prize from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, New England Section, among others. A former faculty member at Mount Holyoke College, Ackmann received her BA from Lindenwood College, MA from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English, and PhD from the University of Massachusetts.
Cost: Free
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Harvard Key Required: No
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