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Links to Public Appearances and Interviews

To listen to an interview with T.J. Stiles on NPR's "Morning Edition," click here.

T.J. Stiles on "Forum," on KQED radio, San Francisco, December 23, 2009.


T.J. Stiles on the Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC Radio, December 22, 2009

Click to read a profile of T.J. Stiles in the San Francisco Chronicle, December 21, 2009.
Below: T.J. Stiles accepts the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Award Presentation and Remarks, from the National Book Foundation website.


Click to watch the entire 2009 National Book Award ceremony. (T.J. Stiles receives his award at approximately 70 minutes into the program.)
BookTV's interview with T.J. Stiles, National Book Awards, November 18, 2009.
Photographs from the National Book Award ceremony in New York, November 18, 2009.

Photos from the 2009 National Book Awards from National Book Foundation on Vimeo.


A Flash video of T.J. Stiles, speaking about Cornelius Vanderbilt and The First Tycoon at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.


Click here to watch T.J. Stiles in conversation with novelist Kevin Baker at the New York Public Library, April 30, 2009.
Click here to listen to T.J. Stiles on the Washington Post Book World podcast.
Go here to listen to T.J. Stiles on NPR's "On Point," May 14, 2009.
Click here to listen to T.J. Stiles in conversation with novelist Kevin Baker, at the New York Public Library, April 30, 2009.
Listen to T.J. Stiles discuss THE FIRST TYCOON with Leonard Lopate on WNYC radio, April 30, 2009.


Go to this page to find an interview with T.J. Stiles on Napa's KVON radio.
Read T.J. Stiles's essay about the secret message his great-great-grandfather left inside Lincoln's watch.
This is a PDF file. An Interview with T.J. Stiles about THE FIRST TYCOON: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (164.7KB)
This is a PDF file. Interesting facts about the life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (90.9KB)
Watch T.J. Stiles discuss Cornelius Vanderbilt and the original Grand Central in the opening segment of "Grand Central," a film in the PBS series "The American Experience." (Quicktime format)
T.J. Stiles in conversation about Jesse James and the Civil War with Milt Rosenberg of WGN Radio, Chicago: Part 1 (RealPlayer file)
T.J. Stiles in conversation about Jesse James and the Civil War with Milt Rosenberg of WGN Radio, Chicago: Part 2 (RealPlayer file)
Click for T.J. Stiles's appearance schedule.

T.J. Stiles is available to speak about Cornelius Vanderbilt, the making of the American economy, and The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Click on the photograph on right for a schedule of upcoming appearances.

Resources on this Website

Media Center
Interviews with T.J. Stiles about The First Tycoon
Dwight Garner on The First Tycoon, New York Times, 04/29/09
"I read eagerly and avidly. This is state-of-the-art biography."
New York Times Book Review (Cover Review of Jesse James), 10/27/02
"So carefully researched, persuasive, and illuminating that it is likely to reshape permanently our understanding of its subject's life and times."