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Title
Californina Library Association: The Writer in an Automated World panel part 2
Alternative Title
A panel discussion with Eric Hoffer
Created Date
1963
Description
Eric Hoffer spoke at a panel discussion that took place at the Palace Hotel
"The Writer in an Automated World." A discussion with Eric Hoffer, Robert Kirsch, and Kenneth Rexroth. Moderator, Lawrence Clark Powell. California Librarian. Second general session of the Annual Conference, California Library Association, San Francisco, December 11, 1963]. An autodidact of working class roots, Eric Hoffer worked as a migrant worker, following the harvests in California, and then a longshoreman on the docks of San Francisco, which was around the time he started writing. He became known as a "longshoreman philosopher" and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983. His first of ten books, The True Believer (1951), became widely recognized as a classic.
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