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TITLE: Dayton Duncan: 2009 National Book Festival
SPEAKER: Dayton Duncan
EVENT DATE: 09/26/2009
RUNNING TIME: 44 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker and author Dayton Duncan appears at the National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Dayton Duncan is an award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker and the author of nine books. "Out West: A Journey Through Lewis & Clark's America" (2001) chronicles his retracing of the Lewis and Clark trail; it was a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection and finalist for the Western Writers of America's Spur Award. "Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery" (1997) and "Mark Twain" (2001) are companion books to documentary films he wrote and produced with Ken Burns. Dayton was a consultant on Burns' award-winning series for public television "The Civil War," "Baseball" and "Jazz." He is also Burns' collaborator on "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" book and the documentary of the same name. Duncan lives in New Hampshire.
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SERIES: National Book Festival 2009