California Authors Night - 2002 Edition        (Rehearsal photo at the bottom)

Tenth Annual California Authors Night
Produced by the Pleasant Hill Recreation & Park District in cooperation with the CWC, Mt. Diablo Branch. Three performers will portray these authors, revealing their struggles, successes, and those who influenced them.

M.F.K. Fisher
In a career spanning more than 60 years, she wrote hundreds of stories for The New Yorker as well as 15 books of essays and reminiscences, a novel, a screenplay, a book for children and dozens of travelogues. She used food as a cultural metaphor. Her books include The Gastronomical Me, Here Let Us Feast and Dubious Honors. She will be performed by local writer, Pat Edwards who has done one-woman shows featuring Gertrude Stein, Helen Hunt Jackson, Lillian Hellman, Gertrude Atherton and Jessica Mitford.

Herb Caen
Pulitzer Prize-winning San Francisco newspaper columnist Herb Caen wrote 16,000 columns, each with 22 individual items, separated by his trademark three dots. During the McCarthy era, the FBI kept close tabs on him. Caen was an accomplished drummer, who performed into his 80's. David Pinkham, a local theater performer, will portray Caen. Pinkham has portrayed Joaquin Miller, Dashiell Hammett, and William Saroyan for past Authors Nights.

Mary Hallock Foote
As she moved with her husband from one Western mining camp to another, she wrote twelve novels and four volumes of short stories. However, modern readers know her better as the main character in Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer-prize winning novel, Angle of Repose. Beverly Lauderdale will portray Foote. Lauderdale is an accomplished writer and teacher. She has portrayed Mary Austin, Kathleen Norris, and Jessmyn West, in past years.

March 14th , 7:00 pm. $8 per person. Proceeds will be donated to the annual CWC Mt. Diablo Branch Young Writers Contest for Contra Costa Middle School Students.
Onstage Theater, 2050 Oak Park Blvd., Pleasant Hill.

   Director - Liz Pentacoff

 

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