Northern California Book Awards: Daniel Ellsberg

1 JULY 2018 — sunday

37th Annual Northern California Book Awards, Northern California authors are honored in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation, and Children's Literature with brief readings and remarks; presentation of the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award to activist and author Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner; NCBR Recognition Award to Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits, photographs by Christopher Felver; master of ceremonies Oscar Villalon, ZYZZYVA Managing Editor, presented by the Northern California Book Reviewers, Poetry Flash, San Francisco Public Library and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, PEN West, Women's National Book Association-SF Chapter, and Mechanics' Institute Library, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, enter on Grove, SF, free, 1:00, book signing and lively reception follows (510/525-5476, NCBR@poetryflash.org, poetryflash.org)