Frances Dinkelspiel

Frances Dinkelspiel

Author, and Co-Founder, Berkeleyside

February 11, 2016 — 4:10 PM
International House Auditorium — 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley

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About the Lecture Power, money, gold and wine in the making of California. All that, and what it’s like to write best-selling books and operate Berkleyside, the respected local online news site. Plenty to cover with author Frances Dinkelspiel, in conversation with Deirdre … Continued

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About the Lecture

Power, money, gold and wine in the making of California. All that, and what it’s like to write best-selling books and operate Berkleyside, the respected local online news site. Plenty to cover with author Frances Dinkelspiel, in conversation with Deirdre English of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism . 

About Frances Dinkelspiel

Frances Dinkelspiel is an award-winning author and journalist. Her most recent book, Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California, is both a New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Her first book was Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, which was also a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Frances’s freelance articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine and elsewhere. Dinkelspiel is an accomplished speaker who has delivered more than 200 lectures on the history of California, Isaias Hellman, and the role Jews made to the development of the state.

In 2009, after watching newspapers decimate their local reporting staffs, Dinkelspiel co-founded Berkeleyside, a news site about Berkeley, CA. Berkeleyside has twice won the “Best Community News Site” award from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. In 2013, Frances and her partners created Nosh, a site about the food scene in the East Bay.


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