Contact: Kay Finney
Librarian
Berkeley Public Library
510-981-6135
Groundbreaking southern author Dorothy Allison speaks at the Central Library in Berkeley on Saturday, June 18 at 1:00pm in the Community Meeting Room.
Dorothy Allison received mainstream recognition with her novel Bastard Out of Carolina, (1992) a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award. The novel won the Ferro Grumley prize, an ALA Award for Lesbian and Gay Writing, became a best seller, and an award-winning movie. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Her other works include Cavedweller (1998), Trash: Stories (1988), and Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1995). Dorothy Allison now travels the country teaching and speaking at various literary conferences.
Ms. Allison describes herself as a feminist, a working class story teller, a Southern expatriate, a sometime poet and a happily born-again Californian. Join us in the Central Library community meeting room for an hour that is sure to be thought-provoking and entertaining.
Allison says, “I am quite clear that my own life was saved by story, and moreover by the books in which I found life-saving stories. But the ways in which that takes place are never as simple or reductive as we might imagine.”
For more information about this event call 510-981-6135.
This free event is sponsored by the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library. (http://www.berkeleylibraryfriends.org)
The Central Library is located at 2090 Kittredge, Berkeley, CA 94704 and is open: Monday, 12:00 am-8:00 pm; Tuesday, 10:00 am-8:00 pm; Wednesday through Saturday, 10:00 am-6:00 pm; and Sunday 1:00 pm-5:00 pm.
Wheelchair accessible. For questions, to request a sign language interpreter or other accommodations for this event, please call (510) 981-6195 (voice) or (510) 548-1240 (TTY); at least five working days will help ensure availability. Please refrain from wearing scented products to public programs. Visit the library’s website: www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org.
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