Speaker: Robert Dugoni
September 22, 5:00 p.m.
DeRosa University Center
Who: Everyone is welcome to attend, but this event would be of particular interest to faculty and staff that enjoy suspenseful novels, students interested in law and/or students seeking careers in writing.
What: Come meet critically acclaimed author Robert Dugoni as he presents his latest book, Wrongful Death. Book signing will also be available.
When: Tuesday, September 22nd at 5pm
Where: DeRosa Center Ballroom
Description:
Robert Dugoni was born in Pocatello, Idaho and raised in Burlingame, California. Growing up the middle child in a family of ten siblings, Dugoni jokes that he didn't get much of a chance to talk, so he wrote. By the seventh grade he knew he wanted to be a writer.
Dugoni wrote his way to Stanford University where he majored in communications/journalism and creative writing writing and worked as a reporter for the Stanford Daily. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and worked briefly as a reporter in the Metro and San Gabriel Valley Offices of the Los Angeles Times before deciding to attend the UCLA law school. Dugoni practiced law full-time in San Francisco as a partner at the law firm, Gordon and Rees and is currently of counsel for a law firm in Seattle.
While practicing law he satisfied his artistic thirst studying acting at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, appearing in equity and non-equity shows throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. His longing to return to writing never wavered, however, and in 1999 he made the decision to quit the full-time practice of law to write novels. On the 4-year anniversary of his wedding, he drove a u-haul trailer across the Oregon-Washington border and settled in Seattle to pursue his dream.
For the next three years, Dugoni worked in an 8x8 foot windowless office in Seattle's Pioneer Square to complete three novels, two of which won the 1999 and 2000 Pacific Northwest Writer's Association Literary Contests.
To learn more about Robert Dugoni visit www.robertdugoni.com
