David Fiske

Upcoming Free Historical Talk and Walk in Ballston Spa, New York

Author David Fiske will lecture on this topic as part of the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Library's First Friday: series. The June 3rd program will begin at 10:30 am ET.

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has called Fiske "Northup's current and most devoted biographer."

David Fiske will be signing copies of his latest book, Solomon Northup’s Kindred: The Kidnapping of Free Citizens before the Civil War, at the Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza, on Saturday, March 12, 2016, 3 pm.

David Fiske, co-author of a complete biography of Solomon Northup, will give two presentations at the Black History Month Brunch being put on by the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Tuckahoe, New York on February 28, 2015.

David Fiske, co-author of Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave, will be one of the authors participating in the Glens Falls Chronicle Autumn Leaves Book Fair on November 2, 2014.

On Sunday, October 12, short walking tours of the history-laden village of Ballston Spa, New York will be led by local author David Fiske

On October 4, 2014, author David Fiske will talk about Solomon Northup at the Holyoke Public Library in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

David Fiske, co-author of a biography of Solomon Northup, will give a presentation in Schenectady, New York, about the life of Anne Northup. The story of her husband's wrongful enslavement was the basis of the Oscar-winning film: 12 Years a Slave.

The ruins of Madame Sherri’s "castle," a custom-made house she had built in rural New Hampshire has piqued the curiosity of many people through the years. Who was this woman? Why did she come here? What was her story?