Sleuthing The Sleuth: Yunte Huang On Charlie Chan October 14, 2010

Yunte Huang will discuss his acclaimed new biography of Charlie Chan, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History. “Himself a brilliant sleuth,” says Stephen Greenblatt, “Huang follows a trail of clues that leads to Honolulu and the deeply impressive career of Chang Apana, the Chinese-born detective on whom the character was based . . . Huang writes with rare personal intensity and capacious intelligence.” Moderated by Brenda Wineapple, author of White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Director/ Distinguished Writer-in-Residence of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, and Robert Polito, author of the poetry collection Hollywood and God and Director of the Writing Program at the New School.