Author Talk With Larry Tye

Larry Tye, author of “Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon” will speak at West Falmouth Library on Thursday, January 11th at 6:30pm. This is a free event. “Robert F. Kennedy’s enshrinement in the liberal pantheon was actually the final stage of a journey that had its beginning in the conservative 1950s. In “Bobby Kennedy”, Larry Tye peels away layers of myth and misconception to paint a complete portrait of this singularly fascinating figure.” Call 508-548-4709 for more information.

Larry Tye is a New York Times bestselling author. In addition to his writing, Tye runs the Boston-based Health Coverage Fellowship, which helps the media do a better job reporting on critical issues like public health, mental health, and high-tech medicine.

From 1986 to 2001, Tye was an award-winning reporter at The Boston Globe, where his primary beat was medicine. Tye, who graduated from Brown University, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993-94. He taught journalism at Boston University, Northeastern, and Tufts.

“Mr. Tye… has a keen gift for narrative storytelling and an ability to depict his subject with almost novelistic emotional detail… Tye conscientiously strips away the accretions of myth that have come to surround Robert F. Kennedy, while at the same time creating a sympathetic portrait of this complex, searching man.” – Michiko Kakutani, New York Times