A celebrated California novelist and Berkeley alum, Oakley Hall has authored more than twenty works, most notably the recent Ambrose Bierce series, and Warlock, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Love and War in California was published in 2007, and like much of his work, focuses primarily on the historical American West. Hall was director of the writing program at the UC Irvine for twenty years, and in 1969 co-founded the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. Among his many honors are lifetime achievement awards from the PEN Center and induction into the Cowboy Hall of Fame. Hall will read from his work and be interviewed by Michael Chabon, whose most recent work is The Yiddish Policeman's Union.

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