Claudia Kalb

Claudia Kalb is an award-winning journalist who blends biography, science, and firsthand reporting to illuminate the lives of great minds. Spark builds on a series of cover stories she wrote for National Geographic about the origins of genius. Her first book, Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History’s Great Personalities, was a New York Times bestseller.

JBW 2022 Digipass
Jewish Book Week Digi-Pass gives access to all eight KPlayer (online streaming) events for £39.50.
Including:
Mourning & Evening – Monday 28 February 1pm GMT
From burials to sitting shiva, join the authors of two intriguing new books on how Jewish communities mark death. Nessa Rapoport, author of Preparing for Sabbath and A Women’s Book of Grieving, returns with Evening: A Novel, with a Jewish family mourning the death of one of two sisters. ...

Spark: How Genius Ignites
What are the origins of genius? How do luck, failure, personality and serendipity play into the arc of discovery? And why do some people reach extraordinary creative heights early in life while others achieve greatness decades later? New York Times bestseller Claudia Kalb joins us live from the US to answer these questions and more, as in her latest book Spark, via the lives of 13 extraordinary individuals, from child prodgies Shirley Temple, Yo-Yo Ma and Pablo Picasso to th...