Telling Your Story with Kim Bancroft
February 18, 2023 | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Join Kim Bancroft, author of Writing Themselves Into History at the Mendocino County Museum for an afternoon of writing and community.
With Bancroft’s assistance, aspiring writers and historians will discuss crafting their own stories. Bancroft will provide insight based on her years of experience as a historian and author and will offer guidance for using letters, diaries, oral history interviews, and other primary sources in one’s writing.
Event tickets will be $7.00 for adults, and $3.00 for children 17 and under, and will include admission to the Museum on the day of the event. Writing Workshop space is limited, to ensure a place we encourage guests to register in advance.
Register HereAbout the Speaker
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.
