Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A conversation with Scholar of Note A. Kendra Greene about the wondrous journey of Zarafa the Giraffe to Paris and learn about natural history collections at the intersection of science and art.
Filmed on 13/11/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
As we near the 200th anniversary of the journey to Paris from Africa of Zarafa, the first giraffe in Europe since the Medicis, writer and illustrator A. Kendra Greene presented an essayist’s illumination of curiosity and encounter, from medieval reports of the camelopard to the first photographic evidence of ghost giraffes.
About the speaker:
A. Kendra Greene is a writer and book artist based in Dallas. She is the author and illustrator of "The Museum of Whales You Will Never See", first published by Penguin and Granta, and now translated into German and French. With publications from Atlas Obscura to Zyzzyva, her work has been presented at the Smithsonian, exhibited at The Reading Room, collected as far away as Qatar, and supported by fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, and the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard. Tin House will unleash a collection of her essays in curiosity, "No Less Strange or Wonderful", in Winter 2025.
At the Library as a Scholar of Note, Greene is working on a nonfiction book-length project on Hell, or l’enfer.
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
A conversation with Scholar of Note A. Kendra Greene about the wondrous journey of Zarafa the Giraffe to Paris and learn about natural history collections at the intersection of science and art.
Filmed on 13/11/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
As we near the 200th anniversary of the journey to Paris from Africa of Zarafa, the first giraffe in Europe since the Medicis, writer and illustrator A. Kendra Greene presented an essayist’s illumination of curiosity and encounter, from medieval reports of the camelopard to the first photographic evidence of ghost giraffes.
About the speaker:
A. Kendra Greene is a writer and book artist based in Dallas. She is the author and illustrator of "The Museum of Whales You Will Never See", first published by Penguin and Granta, and now translated into German and French. With publications from Atlas Obscura to Zyzzyva, her work has been presented at the Smithsonian, exhibited at The Reading Room, collected as far away as Qatar, and supported by fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, and the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard. Tin House will unleash a collection of her essays in curiosity, "No Less Strange or Wonderful", in Winter 2025.
At the Library as a Scholar of Note, Greene is working on a nonfiction book-length project on Hell, or l’enfer.
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
