Praise for  Accidental Lessons...



“A beautiful, Elegantly written Book.”


  1. -Thomas E. Kennedy, Winner of the 2008 National Magazine Award and Author of In the Company of Angels.


“A terrific memoir.”


  1. -Rick Kogan, The Sunday Papers, WGN Radio, Chicago.


the kind of Book you tell your friends about.”


-Eric Jones, BookReview.com.



       

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Chicago journalist David W. Berner takes the reader inside his own personal journey, telling the story of a tumultuous year of painful endings, new beginnings, and self-discovery.


The author takes a job as a teacher in a public school in a tough, impoverished neighborhood outside Chicago during a difficult year of personal change. What he learns from the students teaches him invaluable lessons about himself, who he is, why he became a journalist in the first place, and reconfirms the belief that we can all find second chances.




AUDIO: Hear the author read from his memoir,

Accidental Lessons...




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Copyright - David W. Berner - 2009 - All Rights Reserved





 

Recipient of the 2011 Dragonfly Book Award Grand Prize for Literature.






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Books


Accidental Lessons: A Memoir of a Rookie Teacher and a Life Renewed. -  Strategic Book Group, 2009


Upcoming Appearances


1/16/2012 - Essay fiesta, Book Cellar, Chicago -  7pm...More










Award: Writer in Residence - , Orlando, Summer 2011.

THE JACK KEROUAC PROJECT



Newly Published


After Opium” - fall edition, Character-i


“Over the edge and into the wind” - epiphany Magazine, december 2011


“The Smell of dead soldiers” - Epiphany Magazine, February 2011


“First Date” - coming to eChook-Memoir vol. 2


“The Ukulele”- SHAKING LIKE A  MOUNTAIN.


“Burying Dogs” - PERIGEE.


“The Color and the Noise” -- SHAKING LIKE A  MOUNTAIN.



New Works


“BRACELETS OF GRACE: The Vietnam War story of Major Stanley HOrne.”

Audio Documentary


HONORS

2011 Grand Prize:

Royal Dragonfly Book Award


Award: Writer in Residence - THE JACK KEROUAC PROJECT, Orlando, Summer 2011


The Writer’s Cyber Colony... WORKSHOPS WITH THE AUTHOR.


David W. Berner featured in....

Chicago Tribune


Bookreview.com


WGN Radio

rick kogan - the sunday papers.


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CONTACT THE AUTHOR: davidwberner@gmail.com