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Brendan Gill Lecture to Feature Andrew Ross Sorkin -- Award-Winning Journalist, Co-Anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box, and Bestselling Author of 1929

By Lorraine Shanley, Member, Board of Trustees, The Bronxville Historical Conservancy

Dec. 10, 2025: Award-winning New York Times journalist, co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box, and best-selling author, Andrew Ross Sorkin will be the featured speaker at the annual Brendan Gill Lecture on Thursday, February 26, at 7:30 pm at Sarah Lawrence College's Reisinger Auditorium.  One of the country’s foremost financial journalists, whose books Too Big To Fail and 1929 chronicle events that changed the course of U.S. political and economic life and eventually resulted in policies that strengthened the country’s social safety net, will discuss how these cataclysmic events occurred.  The characters in both books come to life in Sorkin’s hands, whether it is Jamie Dimon,  George W. Bush, and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in Too Big to Fail or President Herbert Hoover, JP Morgan’s son, Jack Morgan, and Winston Churchill, in 1929.  Sorkin will be interviewed by local resident and journalist David Westin, an anchor for Bloomberg’s Wall Street Week on Bloomberg Television.  

This free lecture is open to the public and presented each year by The Bronxville Historical Conservancy as a gift to the community. A reception with the speaker will follow the presentation. Registration will be open to the public beginning in early February on the BHC website: BronxvilleHistoricalConservancy.org.

Sorkin joins an illustrious roster of previous Gill speakers, including Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ken Burns, Mo Rocca, Jill Lepore, Douglas Brinkley, David Rubenstein, Jon Meacham, and Michael Beschloss, among others.  

When not busy writing bestselling books, Sorkin is a financial columnist for The New York Times and is the founder of its financial newsletter, DealBook. He is an anchor for Squawk Box, has produced documentaries for CNBC, and is a creator of the successful drama series, Billions. His other producing credits include HBO’s adaptation of Too Big to Fail, which was nominated for 11 Emmy Awards.

Sorkin will focus his talk on his recent book, 1929, which the Wall Street Journal called “one of the best narrative histories [we’ve] read.”

 

 

 

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Bronxville is a quaint village (one square mile) located just 16 miles north of midtown Manhattan (roughly 30 minutes on the train) and has a population of approximately 6,500. It is known as a premier community with an excellent public school (K-12) and easy access to Manhattan. Bronxville offers many amenities including an attractive business district, a hospital (Lawrence Hospital), public paddle and tennis courts, fine dining at local restaurants, two private country clubs and a community library.

While the earliest settlers of Bronxville date back to the first half of the 18th century, the history of the modern suburb of Bronxville began in 1890 when William Van Duzer Lawrence purchased a farm and commissioned the architect, William A. Bates, to design a planned community of houses for well-known artists and professionals that became a thriving art colony. This community, now called Lawrence Park, is listed on the National register of Historic Places and many of the homes still have artists’ studios. A neighborhood association within Lawrence Park called “The Hilltop Association” keeps this heritage alive with art shows and other events for neighbors.

Bronxville offers many charming neighborhoods as well as a variety of living options for residents including single family homes, town houses, cooperatives and condominiums. One of the chief benefits of living in “the village” is that your children can attend the Bronxville School.

The Bronxville postal zone (10708, known as “Bronxville PO”) includes the village of Bronxville as well as the Chester Heights section of Eastchester, parts of Tuckahoe and the Lawrence Park West, Cedar Knolls, Armour Villa and Longvale sections of Yonkers. Many of these areas have their own distinct character. For instance, the Armour Villa section has many historic homes and even has its own newsletter called “The Villa Voice” which reports on neighborhood news.

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