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Authors @ Drucker is an interview series featuring one author every month. In this series, you’ll learn the stories of some of the most successful business-owning families in the world. We will cover topics like business succession, innovation, conflict management, and generational dynamics. In this session, Katherine Howe will be discussing her recent book Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune.

Katherine Howe is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian and novelist. She is the author of several novels for adult and young adult audiences, has edited two volumes of primary sources for Penguin Classics, and is the co-author (with Anderson Cooper) of #1 New York Times bestselling books Vanderbilt and Astor. Her expertise and insights have been featured on Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, NPR’s The Weekend Edition, and the BBC, to name a few. Howe received her BA in Art History and Philosophy from Columbia and an MA in American and New England Studies from Boston University.