Join 2024 Scholar of Note A. Kendra Greene on November 13th for her hybrid event!
Giraffe Mania: Paris as City of Natural History with Scholar of Note A. Kendra Greene
Wednesday, November 13th, at 19 h 30 – 20 h 30, or 1:30-2:30 pm ET.
Join Scholar of Note Kendra Greene to trace the wondrous journey of Zarafa the Giraffe to Paris and learn about natural history collections at the intersection of science and art.
A. Kendra Greene is a writer and book artist based in Dallas. She is the author and illustrator of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, first published by Penguin and Granta, and now translated into German and French. With publications from Atlas Obscura to Zyzzyva, her work has been presented at the Smithsonian, exhibited at The Reading Room, collected as far away as Qatar, and supported by fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, and the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard. Tin House will unleash a collection of her essays in curiosity, No Less Strange or Wonderful, in Winter 2025.
At the Library as a Scholar of Note, Greene is working on a nonfiction book-length project on Hell, or l’enfer.