A Rainy Day Books author event presented by Rainy Day Books, the Linda Hall Library, and the Kansas City Star.

The lecture and book

In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion. Dawkins cheerfully, mischievously, looks back on a lifetime of tireless intellectual adventure and engagement. Throughout Brief Candle in the Dark, Dawkins shares with us his infectious sense of wonder at the natural world, his enjoyment of the absurdities of human interaction, and his bracing awareness of life’s brevity: all of which have made a deep imprint on our culture.

The speaker

Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of the Royal Society and was the inaugural holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion, An Appetite for Wonder, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, The Ancestor’s Tale, and The Greatest Show on Earth. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Royal Society of Literature Award, the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, the Kistler Prize, the Shakespeare Prize, the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, the Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year Award, and, most valuable of all, the International Cosmos Prize of Japan.

Location

The event will be held at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri.

Format

Richard Dawkins will discuss his life, his career, his writings, and answer audience questions. A book signing will follow the presentation. A stamped admission ticket is required for the book signing.

Admission tickets

Tickets are $27.99 plus Kansas sales tax and includes one autographed hardcover of Brief Candle In The Dark, one stamped autographing admission ticket, and one guest admission ticket (if needed). Purchase tickets from Rainy Day Books at this: Richard Dawkins tickets.