Lake Forest--The community is invited to attend "An Evening With Dave Eggers and Luis Alberto Urrea" on May 4 at the Gorton Community Center.
Acclaimed author Dave Eggers (The Wild Things, Zeitoun) and Luis Alberto Urrea (Into the Beautiful North, The Devil’s Highway) will come together for a reading and discussion of their work. Tickets cost $25 ($20 for students); you can also attend a cocktail reception that includes priority seating for the event, wine and hors d'ouevres--these tickets are going for $100. All of the evening's proceeds benefit 826Chi's free writing programs for students and Ragdale's retreat for writers and artists. For more information or to purchase tickets (including premium seating and access to the pre-show cocktail hour), please visit www.826chi.org or call Ragdale at 847.234.1063.
About Dave Eggers: Lake Forest native Dave Eggers is a writer, publisher and editor, as well as the co- founder of the tutoring center/writing lab 826 Valencia. His 2000 best-selling novel A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius was ranked the 12th best novel of the decade by the daily national British newspaper The Times. In 2009, Eggers published Zeitoun, a story of New Orleans resident Abdulrahman Zeitoun attempting to ride out Hurricane Katrina. The Wild
Lake Forest native Dave Eggers, at left, and Luis Alberto Urrea
Things, Eggers’ reimagination of Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, was also published in 2009. Eggers also co-wrote two screenplays in 2009: Away We Go, with his wife Vendela Vida, and Where The Wild Things Are, with director Spike Jonze.
About Luis Alberto Urrea: Luis Alberto Urrea has been publishing poems, essays, non- fiction and novels since 1993. His first book, Across the Wire, a non-fiction work about the lives of those on the United States’ border with Mexico, won the Christopher award. Urrea also won an American Book Award in 1999 for his memoir Nobody’s Son: Notes From An American Life. In 2000, Urrea was elected into the Latino Literature Hall of Fame and in 2005 was a Pulitzer prize finalist for nonfiction.
About 826CHI: 826CHI is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around our belief that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. With this in mind, we provide drop-in tutoring, after- school workshops, in-schools tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications.
About Ragdale: Ragdale is an artists' retreat located on the grounds of Arts and Crafts architect Howard Van Doren Shaw's 1897 summer home in Lake Forest. The artists' community, which overlooks 50 acres of prairie, now hosts over 200 emerging and established artists of all disciplines each year. These writers, artists, and composers come from around the world to work and experience Ragdale's remarkable gifts of community, tranquility, and creativity.
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