august 18th, the mississippi book festival in jackson with john meacham, salman rushdie and others. for more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and to watch our previous festival coverage click the book fairs tab on booktv.org. >> we want to introduce a first-time author, her book is called noncompliance, a known whistleblower exposes the giants of wall street, it comes out in october of this year. give us a brief synopsis of your career. >> i'm a lawyer by training and profession. i started working at law firms, that is what lawyers do and after a while i went into banking. one of the few fields that allowed women to progress. so i joined, and at some point the 2008 crisis hit and at that point in my career it was time to do a shift because you are getting older, getting up there and you are more senior and the opportunity came up to work at the bank of new york and i took it. >> reporter: what work do you do at the fed? >> i was a senior bank examiner and that is a fancy way of saying my job was to go into any bank the fed supervises and make sure they are complyi

among pen america's darkest hours when he ran's supreme leader declared a fast one on author salman rushdiewith writing firebombings by a dictator, bookstores were fearful for the safety of their employees and customers so they began pulling the satanic versus from their shelves. stephe king called up the head of a chain of stores and gave him an ultimatum. you don't sell the satanic versus you don't k cell stephe king. [applause] >> of course the store reversed course. you can't intimidate, you can't let intimidation stop books, king said. it is as basic as that. a fierce opponent of censorship, he is spoken about the dangers of pulling books from the shelves of schools and libraries and in an age of new assaults on the press and truth, stephen has taking his public platform and transformed it into a vehicle of unfiltered dissent. stephen calls it like he sees it and has become a clarion voice of unvarnished, sometimes harsh truths. some people can't take it. would rather not hear the truth. when donald trump -- [laughter] -- backed to block stephen king on twitter, stephen didn't cow for

for example, salman rushdie, you know? think, certainly, he is not going to have trouble talking about himself, i mean, but, you know, when he sat down to write his memoir about his years under the fatwa after the ayatollah khomeini had issued the fatwa, the death sentence on him because because of his writings, satanic verses, when it came to writing his memoirs, he felt we could he could not write that in the first perp. he wrote the whole memoir in the third person. oh, even somebody like many, many, many years into, you know, life in the western world this residual feeling of, like, it's not okay to say i, to be focused on yourself like that, you know, it stays with you. it stays with you. and to this day, i mean, you know, interviewed just about myself i can go a little -- [laughter] i'm very happy to talk about the classroom in america and fundamentalism. talking about myself, you know, i can get there, but i have to kind of -- there's like a little speed bump. i've got to get over the speed bump. so i understand the