Author Kathleen Brady is scheduled to present a lecture on two area natives later this month at Jamestown Community College as part of Women's History Month. The lecture called "History Made in Chautauqua County: How Ida Tarbell and Lucille Ball Changed America" will take place on Thursday, March 24th at 4:00 PM at JCC's Jamestown campus in Sheldon Center Room 332 and will be free and open to the public.
Brady, a St. Bonaventure University Lenna visiting professor, has written biographies on both women. She was named a Fellow of the Society of American Historians for her book Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker while her critically well-received Lucille, The Life of Lucille Ball is in its fifth printing.
Brady has additionally been featured in many programs about her subjects. On Ida Tarbell, a journalist and author who got her start at The Chautauquan newspaper, these include podcasts on NPR's "Money Matters" series on monopoly and on the History Channel. On Jamestown native Lucille Ball, these are TCM's podcasts, a Fox Nation documentary, and the American Masters PBS special.
Brady is a past co-director of the Biography Seminar at New York University and a former reporter for Time Magazine. She has contributed columns to Newsday and other publications.
