Dorothy Lazard, author of What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World (published by Heyday), discusses her work alongside Cara Black, Lauren Markham, and Nina Schuyler at the Napa County AAUW Authors Forum.

Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center, 2277 Napa Vallejo Highway, Napa, CA. Doors open at 1:30 pm. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Napa Bookmine and the authors will be available for book signing. Proceeds will go to scholarships for Napa County girls and women. This event is sponsored by the Napa County AAUW Scholarship Foundation.

Dorothy Lazard was born in St. Louis and grew up in San Francisco and Oakland. A librarian for nearly forty years, she joined the staff of the Oakland Public Library in 2000. From 2009 until her retirement in 2021, she was the head librarian of OPL’s Oakland History Center, where she encouraged people of all ages and backgrounds to explore local history. Lazard is the 2023 recipient of the Oscar Lewis Award in Western History from the Book Club of California. She lives in Oakland.