Anne Lamott in conversation with Sam Lamott

Anne Lamott, bestselling author of Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s Son, will speak on Wednesday, April 11, in Angelico Hall at Dominican University of California.

Lamott, who has been called the “People’s Author” and who was the subject of a 1999 documentary by Freida Lee Mock, is appearing with her son, Sam,  as part of Dominican’s Institute for Leadership Studies’ (ILS) 2012 Spring Lecture Series.   The lecture, which begins at 7 p.m., is open to the public and free with preferred seating available with advance purchase of her book from Book Passage.

The series is a cooperative effort between Dominican’s ILS and independent book store Book Passage. Each year, the Leadership Lecture Series features some of the country's leading figures from the world of business, politics, entertainment, academia, and literature.

Lamott is a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame. In Some Assembly Required, she chronicles her son's first year as a father and her own evolution from mother to grandmother. Stunned to learn that her son is about to become a father at 19, Lamott begins a journal about life during the first year of her grandson Jax's life.

The 2012 Leadership Lecture Series is sponsored by Private Ocean, the Marin-based wealth management company.

 For more information about the Leadership Lecture Series, call 415-485-3202, email ILS@dominican.edu or please visit www.dominican.edu/academics/businesslead/leadership/publiceventssymp.html.

To purchase Lamott’s book, call 415-927-0960 or visit www.bookpassage.com