Oakley Hall @ UC Berkeley

[Dave Monroe]

Fiction readers get their moment in the campus spotlight
Story Hour in the Library series debuts next week

By Wendy Edelstein, Public Affairs | 16 January 2008

The campus's popular Lunch Poems series will gain a prose companion
when Story Hour in the Library debuts next Thursday, Jan. 24, at 5
p.m. in Doe Library's Morrison Library. Oakley Hall, author of more
than 20 novels, including Warlock, a finalist for the 1958 Pulitzer
Prize in fiction, will be Story Hour's inaugural reader.

[...]

Writing and fostering good fiction has been Oakley Hall's focus for
longer than half a century. He published his first novel, Murder City,
in 1949, and his most recent, Love and War in California, last year.
Hall, who directed the writing program at UC Irvine for 20 years, is
considered the dean of West Coast writers. He's also the co-founder of
the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, a highly respected annual
writers' conference.

Among the writers Hall has influenced are Thomas Pynchon, Richard
Ford, and Michael Chabon, the author of The Amazing Adventures of
Kavalier and Clay (which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction) and,
more recently, Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure. Chabon, who
studied with Hall at UC Irvine, will be interviewing his former
teacher before the reading.

[...]

Oakley Hall with Michael Chabon
Thursday, Jan. 24, 5 p.m. Morrison Library, Doe Library

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/01/16_storyhour.shtml