Biographer T.J. Stiles

Booking T.J. Stiles as a Speaker
An experienced public speaker, author T.J. Stiles has addressed dozens of audiences, at venues ranging from Yale University to Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi. He has appeared in a number of documentaries, including two films in the PBS series The American Experience ("Jesse James" and "Grand Central"), for which he served as an advisor.

It is possible to book a talk by T.J. Stiles either through the publicity department of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., or through the Random House Speakers Bureau. Requests for more formal and in-depth talks unrelated to the promotional tour of The First Tycoon should be directed to the Random House Speakers Bureau; booksellers hoping to take part in the tour should contact Knopf publicity. Information for both follows.

Past Appearances:

Television
Aired February 4, 2008:
T.J. Stiles served as advisor and on-screen expert for the film "Grand Central," a documentary in the PBS series The American Experience.

Aired 2006:
Stiles also served as consultant and on-screen expert for "Jesse James," an earlier film in the series The American Experience.

Lectures
As noted above, T.J. Stiles is available to give talks, and has frequently spoken in a wide variety of venues. In 2006, for example, he delivered the James Neal Primm Lecture at the St. Louis Mercantile Library, a talk that was excerpted in August 2008 by U.S. News & World Report for a special issue on the Civil War.