Author will share insight on Dorothy Day

Author Robert Ellsberg will present “Dorothy Day: A Radical, a Journalist, a Saint for Our Time,” at the  Nieman Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 2, at 4 p.m. in the Beaumier Conference Center of Marquette University’s John P. Raynor, S.J., Library, 1355 W. Wisconsin Ave.

Ellsberg, who recently edited The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, will be available before the presentation to sign copies of the book, which will be available for sale at a cost of $42. Before the free, public event, tours of the Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection will be available from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Marquette University Archives on the third floor of Raynor Library.