I Am the Library

By Audrey Sprenger

August 11, 2008

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The Nation is proud to be sponsoring the Denver Public Library's "I Am - The Library" project and collaborating with the library on an event on August 24 in Denver on the cusp of the Democratic National Convention.

About Audrey Sprenger

Audrey Sprenger is an ethnographer, field producer and professor of sociology. Currently writing the authorized biography of novelist Jack Kerouac, she will be a Visiting Scholar at the Charles Warren Center for American Studies at Harvard University during the 2008-9 academic year. She is also the author of an ethnographic novel Home Goings and in addition to the Denver Public Library has created audio, visual and public programming for National Public Radio and PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. more...
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