David Wright
David has been working on library front lines for over two decades, specializing in readers' advisory and services. He enthusiastically supports and serves readers via live and forms-based readers' advisory, displays, promotions, content, programming, and outreach. David is a firm believer in the primacy of story to our enterprise and our future, and has presented a successful storytime for adults for several years, as well as a film/story program called Page to Screen.
David also teaches readers' advisory at the University of Washington's iSchool, and has contributed chapters to Genreflecting, The Readers' Advisory Handbook, and Research-Based Readers' Advisory.
David also teaches readers' advisory at the University of Washington's iSchool, and has contributed chapters to Genreflecting, The Readers' Advisory Handbook, and Research-Based Readers' Advisory.
When he isn't writing for The Seattle Times, Booklist, and Kirkus, David spends a ridiculous amount of time with his two cats. He also buys way too many books, and is slightly obsessed with neglected and obscure fiction, which does him no good at all in his work but seems to satisfy a perverse impulse to read things that nobody else is reading, or cares to.
David has fond memories of being read to as a child, and to this day loves sharing books and stories aloud. He and his wife have read all of the great Russian novels aloud to each other, and are now working on Proust, which they are discovering to be a nifty cure for insomnia.
David has fond memories of being read to as a child, and to this day loves sharing books and stories aloud. He and his wife have read all of the great Russian novels aloud to each other, and are now working on Proust, which they are discovering to be a nifty cure for insomnia.