Dave King

Ragdale Presents...Dave King

Sunday, May 18, 2008
3:00pm - Ragdale Barnhouse Conference Room
1260 N Green Bay Road, Lake Forest

Join us for an afternoon of tea and pastries with a reading and discussion with Dave King, author of The Ha-Ha and Ragdale's 2008 Strnad Invitational fellow.  New York Times Book Review said of his book, "King's writerly restraint serves his story well.  His novel is unflaggingly believable.  Neither showy not histrionic, The Ha-Ha is full of emotional truth and establishes King as a writer of consequence." 

Dave's Bio: 

Dave King holds a BFA in painting and film from Cooper Union and an MFA in writing from Columbia University; he taught English at Baruch College and Cultural Studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York before moving to New York University’s Gallatin School of Interdisciplinary Studies. The Ha-Ha was a finalist for Book of the Month Club’s best Literary Fiction Award and the Quill Foundation’s award for Best Debut Fiction and was named one of the best books of 2005 by the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Several foreign language editions are in print, and a film version is in development by Warner Brothers Pictures. In addition, The Ha-Ha earned Dave King the 2006 John Guare Writers Fund Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

King divides his time between Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley of New York. A new novel, tentatively entitled The Beast and Beauty, is forthcoming from Little, Brown & Co.  For more information on Dave King visit his website at www.davekingwriter.com

Space is limited.  Call Leslie Brown at 847-234-1063 x. 205 to make a reservation.

(Image by Franklin Tartaglione)