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 Vintage, publisher of The First Tycoon and Jesse James in paperback, 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.