Writing wrongs: lessons from co-authoring Virginia Roberts Giuffre's memoir
Sat 18 April 2026
15:00
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Journalist and author Amy Wallace spent four years working with Virginia Roberts Giuffre on her New York Times #1 bestseller, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice. In it she helps Giuffre tell her harrowing story -- an account of child sex trafficking, abuse and the bravery that would exposed Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and eventually led to the banishment of the former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
In this workshop, Wallace will cover the process of memoir writing, exploring how one excavates decades-old testimonies and fact-checks them; the idea of being a "ghost-writer" and best practice for writing in someone else's voice -- and what mental, physical or emotional work should any storyteller do when they are a conduit for the expression of other people's trauma.
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Amy Wallace
Amy Wallace is a California-based writer who splits her time between books and magazines. Her magazine work has appeared in GQ, Wired, The New Yorker, New York, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Details, The Nation, the New York Times Magazine, Elle, and other national publications. Two of her profiles – Hollywood’s Information Man (Los Angeles, 2001) and Walking Time Bomb (New York, 2019) – have been nominated for a National Magazine Award. She has also collaborated on three books. Most recently, she worked with Virginia Roberts Giuffre on her autobiography Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice (Knopf, 2025), which was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. In 2021, Simon & Schuster published Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company, by Jeff Immelt, the former CEO of General Electric. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Random House, 2014), with Ed Catmull, then the president of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation, was also a New York Times bestseller. Wallace began her career as an assistant to New York Times columnist James Reston. She spent two years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution covering prisons and death row; next she went to the Los Angeles Times. Since then, Wallace has been a correspondent at GQ, an editor-at-large at Los Angeles magazine, and a monthly columnist on creativity and innovation (Prototype) for the New York Times Sunday Business section. She also served as a senior writer at Conde Nast Portfolio. She spent 11 years at the Los Angeles Times as a reporter covering state politics, higher education, and the entertainment industry. During that period, she shared in two staff-wide Pulitzer Prizes: in 1992, for coverage of the Los Angeles riots, and in 1994, for coverage of the Northridge earthquake. Later, she became the Times’ deputy business editor over entertainment and technology coverage. For more information on Amy, see the 6 March 2026 Guardian article entitled Virginia Giuffre’s ‘invisible ghostwriter’ on the Epstein survivor’s legacy: ‘She wanted to name all of them. They deserve to be named’.
Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo
Il Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo di Perugia è un evento annuale che riunisce professionisti dei media, esperti di comunicazione e appassionati di informazione da tutto il mondo. Si svolge nel centro storico di Perugia e offre conferenze, dibattiti, workshop e opportunità di networking sui temi più rilevanti del giornalismo contemporaneo.
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Palazzo dei Priori (Perugia)
Il Palazzo dei Priori, o comunale, è uno dei migliori esempi d'Italia di palazzo pubblico dell'età comunale. Sorge nella centrale Piazza IV Novembre a Perugia, in Umbria. Si estende lungo Corso Vannucci fino a via Boncambi. È ancora oggi sede di parte del Municipio e, al terzo piano, della Galleria nazionale dell'Umbria. Deve il suo nome ai Priori, la massima autorità politica al governo della città in epoca medievale.