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Joseph Kanon (Trinity 1968) in conversation with Liaquat Ahamed (Trinity 1971).

All alumni and friends are invited to an evening with New York Times Best Selling author Joseph Kanon (Trinity 1968) in conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner Liaquat Ahamed (Trinity 1971).

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

All alumni and friends are invited to an evening with New York Times Best Selling author Joseph Kanon (Trinity 1968) in conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner Liaquat Ahamed (Trinity 1971).

Attendees will hear the Cambridge alumni discuss Joseph's new title, Defectors, his previous works, and much more. A networking reception will follow the conversation.

This event is $20 per person to attend. Guests are most welcome.

We hope you will join us.


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Joseph Kanon's latest novel Defectors is the gripping story of one family torn apart by the divided loyalties of the Cold War, but it's also a revealing look at the wider community of defectors, American and British, living a twilit Moscow existence, granted privileges but never trusted, spies who have escaped one prison only to find themselves trapped in another that is even more sinister. He is the author of seven other novels, Los Alamos, which won the Edgar Award for best first novel; The Good German, which was made into a film with George Clooney and Cate Blanchett; Stardust; The Prodigal Spy; Istanbul Passage; Alibi, which earned Kanon the Hammett Award of the International Association of Crime Writers, and Leaving Berlin, a New York Times Notable Book that was also named one of the best books of 2015 by both the Wall Street Journal and NPR. Kanon is also a recipient of The Anne Frank Human Writers Award for his writings on the aftermath of the Holocaust. Before becoming a full-time writer, Kanon was a book-publishing executive. He lives in New York City with his wife, literary agent Robin Straus. They have two sons.


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Liaquat Ahamed is the author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (2009). The book was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History, the 2010 Spear's Book Award (Financial History Book of the Year), the 2010 Arthur Ross Book Award Gold Medal, the 2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. For 2009 it was recognized as one of Time magazine's 'Best Books of the Year', New York Times 'Best Books of the Year' and Amazon.com's 'Best Books of the Year'. It was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He has been a professional investment manager for 25 years. He has worked at the World Bank in Washington, DC, and the New York-based partnership of Fischer Francis Trees and Watts, where he served as Chief Executive. He is currently an adviser to several hedge fund groups, including the Rock Creek Group and the Rohatyn Group; a director of Aspen Insurance Co.; and is on the board of trustees of the Brookings Institution. Ahamed has degrees in economics from Harvard and Cambridge universities.

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