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Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation Presents Kim Bancroft


March 29, 2023 | 2:00 pm

Join Kim Bancroft at the Lafayette Library where she will discuss her dynamite book, Writing Themselves into History. Bancroft presents these women’s perceptive reflections on life in the still early days of California, paying special attention to their complex and nuanced portraits of gender, race, and class in the nineteenth-century West. Detailing Emily’s and Matilda’s experiences with public life, motherhood, and business against the backdrop of San Francisco’s high society and the state’s growth amidst the tumult of the American Civil War.

At this event, Kim will also introduce her storytelling workshop “Legacy and Memory,” facilitating conversations about how we can best utilize all the archives of our family and ourselves now tucked away in attics and basements. What options do we have for organizing, sorting, and presenting old letters and diaries, perhaps creating stories preserved for future generations?

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About the Speaker

Kim Bancroft

Kim Bancroft

Longtime teacher turned editor and writer, Kim Bancroft earned a B.A. in English from Stanford, an M.A. in English and a teaching credential from San Francisco State University, and a doctorate in education from UC Berkeley. She has taught at high schools and community colleges in the Bay Area, at the Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico, and at Sacramento State. In 2014 Kim edited H.H.B.'s 1890 autobiography, Literary Industries, published by Heyday Books. She also wrote a biography of the founder of Heyday Books, called The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin: The Damn Good Times of a Fiercely Independent Publisher. Of many other memoirs that Kim has recently helped create, she has edited two of Native friends in the Willits area where she now lives in a cabin in the woods. Kim is also seeking to publish a book she wrote with a former classmate, David Waddell, called Same School, Different Class: A Dual Memoir of School Integration.


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