Dorothy Lazard discusses her book published by Heyday, What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World, for a craft and process talk, “Memory as a Creative Tool,” at Oakland Public Library’s Dimond Branch.

3565 Fruitvale Ave, Oakland, CA. Books will be available for sale and signing. This program is made possible by the Friends of Dimond Library. Registration is appreciated but not required.

From 2009 until her retirement in 2021, Dorothy Lazard was the head librarian of OPL’s Oakland History Center. Lazard also holds a MFA degree in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College, and her writing has appeared in a variety of publications including Oakland Noir; The Public Library: a photographic essay; Go Girl!: the Black Woman’s Book of Travel & Adventure; Oakland Heritage Alliance News; and a number of literary anthologies. Her 2023 memoir What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World was shortlisted for the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction.