Dr. Natalie Dykstra

Author of Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner; Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life | rep'd by @zoepagnamenta | mostly on Instagram.

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

Grateful for all the support from @cambridgepl!

[Cambridge Public Library @cambridgepl]

Happy New Year! Checkout the most popular nonfiction books at the Cambridge Public Library in 2024.

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

Well, this made my day, week, month - thank you!!!

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'Gardner was a careful editor of her legacy: she requested that friends burn her letters to them. (Not all of them complied.)'

James Cahill on the cosmopolitan world of a high-society art collector https://t.co/el2uXeZhh8

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

Grateful for this inteview now posted at GBH Forum Network. I enjoyed this conversation very much!

[GBH Forum Network @GBHForumNetwork]

Your next prescription? Going to a museum or taking a dance class- experts recommend on @GBHNews.
Learn why we need art museums and the fabulous story of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner with @camforum and @natalieanneDY, author of Chasing Beauty.
#art #goodvibes

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

Grateful for this lovely review of CHASING BEAUTY!🙏
Next up: I'll be giving talks at @TheMountLenox on July 8/9 - join us!
https://t.co/guXl0a3BL4
@MarinerBooks @zoepagnamenta #isabellastewartgardner

[GBH Forum Network @GBHForumNetwork]

While doing research, Anne Higonnet uncovered evidence of what was fashionable during the French revolutionary era. Watch this @camforum talk to learn about how three female visionaries heralded a new mode of feminism and self-empowerment. https://t.co/z9YF95El1B

[GBH Forum Network @GBHForumNetwork]

Watch this new @camforum talk with biographer Natalie Dykstra on the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner & learn more about why art and spirituality were so connected for her.🎨 https://t.co/XdPkBEx0B4

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

Very grateful for a #NEHPublicScholar award, frankly a game-changer for my work on CHASING BEAUTY. Thank you for this wonderful program that supports writers and scholars. @NEH_Research @HopeCollege @MarinerBooks

[National Endowment for the Humanities @NEHgov]

Isabella Stewart Gardner, art collector and creator of one of America’s most stunning museums, comes to life in Natalie Dykstra’s new NEH-funded book. #NEHPublicScholar

https://t.co/OAfQQBz1hQ

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

Some shine from @HopeCollege, where I taught for twenty years - thank you Greg Olgers the interview, looking forward to coming back to campus in September.
Acclaimed Biography Examines Life of Revered Museum Founder https://t.co/JBYSeos1gX via @HopeCollege @MarinerBooks

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

Can't wait!!!

[Biographers International Organization @biographersintl]

Have you registered for the 2024 BIO Conference?
Cosponsored by the Leon Levy Center for Biography, the 2024 BIO conference returns to the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan, from May 16 to May 17. For program & registration info, click the link in our bio!
#bioconference2024

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

Delighted that CHASING BEAUTY is included here - thank you!!
@MarinerBooks @zoepagnamenta @Harper360UK @HarperCollins

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Some new biographies we enjoyed. Glad to see one of our choices from 2023 won a Pulitzer Prize!
https://t.co/pkCK72i5px
Books by @dolphinsands, @natalieanneDY, @profburns, @yalepress, @LyndseyStonebri, @DonJRobertson, @MarinerBooks, @jonathaneig

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

A brilliant line in @aoscott's review of Colm Tóibín’s LONG ISLAND: "He brings us close enough to Eilis, and to Nora, to see what and how they think, but not so close as to invade their privacy or compromise their dignity." This is Tóibín's greatness.
https://t.co/XxqRrVjgnI

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

THANK YOU @GC_CUNY, @Kaibird123, Rachel Cohen and the audience for such a memorable evening - won't forget the feeling in the room! @zoepagnamenta @danavanderlugt @debvanduinen @HopeArtsHum

[The Graduate Center @GC_CUNY]

ICYMI, watch the video! @natalieanneDY discusses "Chasing Beauty," her acclaimed biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner, with Rachel Cohen. https://t.co/3ziEsfgyLw @biographyctr @Kaibird123 @MarinerBooks

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

Grateful for CHASING BEAUTY to be included in this list of new biographies! Thank you! https://t.co/MUGNlCBipp @marinerbooks @HarperCollins

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

So glad and grateful that CHASING BEAUTY is included in this @nytimes list. What an April!
@zoepagnamenta @MarinerBooks @HarperCollins
9 New Books We Recommend This Week https://t.co/ZIbkC8FHDS

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

I'm so grateful to have the chance to talk with Rachel Cohen next week about #ChasingBeauty - thank you to her and to @biographyctr and @GC_CUNY for this evening! @MarinerBooks

[The Graduate Center @GC_CUNY]

Join us Thurs, 4/18 at 6:30p - @natalieanneDY discusses Chasing Beauty, her "exquisitely detailed and perceptive" (@nytimes) biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner, with Rachel Cohen. Reserve to join in person or online: https://t.co/4gsj61jb2T Presented w/@biographyctr

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

Cleveland is NEXT on 4/15 at 6:30pm at the Hudson Library & Historical Society. Registration link below!
https://t.co/M3PzJl3gE5

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

Can't wait for this converstion - come join us! And thank you @cambridgepl for your support of #ChasingBeauty

[Cambridge Public Library @cambridgepl]

4/24: Celebrate the release of "Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner," a new biography of the beloved Boston art collector called "exquisitely detailed and perceptive" (@nytimes), with author Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY. Register here: https://t.co/Ee8Va1bjIz

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

Reading Oliver Sacks, especially his masterpiece (in my humble opinion) AWAKENINGS in the late 1980s changed me. Off to graduate school I went...!

[Oliver Sacks Fdn. @OliverSacks]

In this clip from Web of Stories, Oliver talks about his love of Charles Darwin, and their shared fascination with the most humble of creatures: the worm.

[Oliver Sacks Fdn. @OliverSacks]

In this clip from Web of Stories, Oliver talks about his love of Charles Darwin, and their shared fascination with the most humble of creatures: the worm.

[Dr. Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY]

To say I can't wait to talk with great art critic Sebastian Smee on 4/24 is a vast understatement - thank you to Sebastian and to @cambridgepl for hosting this event! @zoepagnamenta @marinerbooks @gardnermuseum #biography #isabellastewartgardner

[Cambridge Public Library @cambridgepl]

4/24: Celebrate the release of "Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner," a new biography of the beloved Boston art collector called "exquisitely detailed and perceptive" (@nytimes), with author Natalie Dykstra @natalieanneDY. Register here: https://t.co/Ee8Va1bjIz