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Anne Lamott

Monday, April 19, 2010 |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

Bay Area native Anne Lamott writes books of uncommon candor, and intimacy, from the tumultuous frontline of single motherhood in Operating Instructions, to her six beautifully rendered novels. Lamott's 1994 book on the craft of writing, Bird by Bird, is a classic of the genre, combining humor, practicality and a generous and warm affection for fellow writers. In 1999, Academy-Award winning director Freida Lee Mock made a documentary film about Lamott, titled Bird by Bird with Annie, in which she interweaves Lamott's personal story of addiction and redemption with advice on the struggles and pleasures of the writing life. Three most recent books - Traveling Mercies, Plan B, and Grace (Eventually) - all deal with the spiritual, and Lamott's own journey in the Christian faith. Lamott has taught writing at the University of California, Davis, as well as at writing conferences across the country, and her fiction has earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her forthcoming novel, Imperfect Birds, explores the power of honesty and forgiveness in a family facing a crisis.

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