Sperber Book Prize Awards—Ceremony and Lecture

Please join us for the awarding of the 2023 Sperber Book Prize for exceptional achievement in biography, autobiography, or memoir in works about media figures.

The Sperber Prize will be awarded to Kathryn S. Olmsted, Ph.D., a professor of history at the University of California at Davis, for her book The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler (Yale University Press, 2022).

The reception will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by the awards ceremony and lecture at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

The Sperber Prize honors the memory of Ann M. Sperber, author of the seminal biography of journalist Edward R. Murrow, Murrow: His Life and Times, one edition of which was published by Fordham University Press.