Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, with Natalie Dykstra

Join us for an evening with acclaimed biographer Natalie Dykstra, author of the award-winning new biography Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner. Dykstra will offer a lecture exploring Gardner’s life and legacy, with special attention to her passion for classical literature and art. The program will be followed by a book signing and reception.

Natalie Dykstra is the author of Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life, which won a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship and was a finalist for the 2013 Massachusetts Book Award. Her recent book Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner has received a New England Society of New York Book Award and the Marfield Prize, the national award for arts writing. Her work has been supported by a Public Scholars grant from the NEH and an inaugural Robert Caro Research Fellowship from the Biographers International Organization. She has been an honorary fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society since 2011 and is an emerita professor of English at Hope College. She lives with her husband near Boston.