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Writing Nonfiction Like a Novel with T.J. Stiles
Litquake's Master Class Mixer

Location:
Mechanics' Institute Building
57 Post St., Suite 604

Researching that sprawling nonfiction book project, but finding yourself bogged down in the narrative? Announcing Litquake's Master Class Mixer with two-time Pulitzer Prize winner T.J. Stiles! The class will include three full hours of instruction with Stiles, and then conclude with a cocktail reception with the author in Litquake's downtown San Francisco office. Class size is limited to 15 participants. 

Stiles, called "a superb researcher" by the Washington Post, recently won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History for his most recent book, Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America. He is also the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer for Biography and the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. A Guggenheim fellow, he has taught creative nonfiction at Columbia.

To reserve please visit http://www.litquake.org/event-series/master-class-mixers. Mechanics' Institute members use code MI2016 for 10% off.

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Admission: 
Members & Public $100
Location: 
Offsite: See description for location
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