Edmund White Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel), Les Standiford, The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits), Nancy Milford (a forthcoming biography of Rose Kennedy) and Stacy Schiff (a forthcoming biography on Cleopatra) participated in a panel discussion was held on the art of biography. Among the topics they discussed where choosing subjects to write about and how to empathize with unsympathetic characters. James Atlas moderated. Following their discussion the panelists responded to questions from the audience.