Author Program: Riding Like the Wind

Sun Dec 01 2024 at 02:00 pm to 05:00 pm UTC-08:00

Alameda Free Library (Stafford Room) 1550 Oak St. Alameda, CA | Alameda

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Author Program: Riding Like the Wind
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This is your chance to meet Iris Jamahl Dinkle, author of Riding Like the Wind- the Life of Sanora Babb, for a conversation and book signing.
"No novelist captured the relentless devastation of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, or the cruel treatment of the desperate 'Okies' forced to leave their homes on the Plains for California, better than Sanora Babb. In this biography, Iris Jamahl Dunkle explains why. Hardship, hunger and struggle, discrimination and stubborn prejudice, big dreams thwarted by fate and bad luck––these were also recurring elements of Babb's own remarkable personal story. But she met it all with an indomitable will, a vivaciously free spirit, and an unbending devotion to her artistic vision. Riding Like the Wind is a both heartbreaking and heroic tale that brings to vivid life an important American writer who never received the critical acclaim and commercial success she deserved."—Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, producers of The Dust Bowl
Iris Jamahl Dunkle is an Emerita Poet Laureate of Sonoma County and a faculty member at UC Davis. She has authored two biographies: Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020) and Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb (University of California Press). Her fourth poetry collection, West : Fire : Archive, was recently published by The Center for Literary Publishing. Dunkle writes a weekly blog called Finding Lost Voices, which revives the voices of women who have been forgotten or misremembered and serves as the Poetry and Translation Director at the Napa Valley Writers' Conference.She’s on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.
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Alameda Free Library (Stafford Room) 1550 Oak St. Alameda, CA, 1550 Oak St, Alameda, CA 94501-2932, United States,Alameda, California

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