Welcome to the 2020 National Book festival. And our conversation with two distinguished guests who join us in honor of the centennial celebrations of american author and space age visionary rate bradberry a master storyteller whose legacy exemplifies the festivals theme of american ingenuity. I am john, director of the center for bradberry studies at Indiana University school of liberal arts. Red berries encouragement led to the creation of the center will re preserve his entire home office, a lifetime of words and mementos of the papers correspondence and working library that remained in his home at the time of his passing in 2012 part his remarkable career spans seven decades. He grew up in the great depression. His family, his father had to take the family all the way from illinois to los angeles to find work in rate bradberry was never able to go to college. He developed a great style, his own unique lyric, metaphor rich style. In his own kind of subjects writing fantasy, weird tal
Classic monsters. It was the last one to be included. Everyone has their own pantheon. You can come fight me later. [laughter] in my opinion, creature was the last one. She did so much more. She was one of disneys first female animators, she was an actress, she was an illustrator. Everything about milicent patrick was larger than life. It has been the greatest honor of my life so far to tell her story. If you read the book, you know there are pictures in there because milicent lived a very visual, cinematic life. I have a treat for all of you. Ive got some photos that have never been seen before. I have hundreds of them i was not allowed by my publisher to put in because we could not fit 700 different photos in the book. [laughter] so i would like to take you through while telling you about milicent and why she is a trailblazing artist and one of the most important women we have ever had in the film industry. Also why we dont know her any longer. I would like to take you through her li
She most noticeably designed the creature from the black lagoon, the pantheon of monsters. It was the last one to be included. Everyone has their own pantheon. You can come fight me later. [laughter] in my opinion, creature was the last one. She was one of disneys first female animators, she was an actress, she was an illustrator. Everything about milicent patrick was larger than life. It has been the greatest honor of my life so far to tell her story. If you read the book, you know there are pictures in there because milicent lived a very visual, cinematic life. I have a treat for all of you. Ive got some photos that have never been seen before. I have hundreds of them i was not allowed by my publisher to put in because we could not fit 700 different photos in the book. So i would like to take you through while telling you about milicent and why she is a trailblazing artist and one of the most important women we have ever had in the Film Industry. I would like to take you through her
Monster in the black lagoon. Have their own pantheon, torefo, one of disneys first animators, actress, illustrator. Every thing about Millicent Patrick was larger than life. The greatest honor of my life so far to tell her story. If youve rid the book you know, read the hard cover version you know there are pictures because millicent lived a visual cinematic life. I have a treat for all of you. Photos never seen before. I have hundreds and hundreds of them i wasnt allowed to pub in because we could not fit 700 photos in the book and would sort of like to take you through telling you about mill sent and why she is a trailblazing artist and one of the most important women weve ever had in the Film Industry and why we dont know her any longer. Id like to take you through her life a little bit with awesome photos. So, see if i can remember how to do this. Yes. Thats delete. Sorry. Heres my girl. So Millicent Patrick began life, grew up in a place call the hearst capital. If cribs was a tv
And the readers for allowing me to be who had elevated libraries. [applause] let me just say that you are now a number one. I finally smacked down andrew carnegie. But when i started this book i could not have anticipated that part of it. I was drawn because they wanted to understand that happened in 1986 the epic fire that close the black one the library for seven years but more importantly i wanted to understand why i cared about it so much. I have often said if somebody said to me city hall burned down i would have thought thats too bad. I assume they will rebuild it. But hearing that a library had burned, felt like a deep profoundly personal loss. And i thought why do we feel such a connection to books . And what is so disturbing. And with the investigative curiosity with the overarching question of why do we care so much about libraries. And thats what stirs a lot of people because for many people it was a reminder to them of how much they care about libraries. So the thing that i