AJ Jacobs is the Friends' Annual Speaker

AJ Jacobs is the Friends of the Libraries and Dennis L. Bruce Author Series speaker. Jacobs will speak in the Barret Room on Tuesday, April 8 at 7:00.

Jacobs is an editor for Esquire magazine and the author of several books. Recently Jacobs wrote The Know it All. As Jacobs explains, "The Know it All is about the year I spent reading the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z (or, more precisely, from a-ak to zywiec). All forty-four million words of it."

Released in late 2007 is The Year of Living Biblically. This book is about Jacob's quest to live the ultimate biblical life. "To follow every single rule in the Bible – as literally as possible."

You may sample Jacobs writing by visiting his website at http://www.ajjacobs.com/ .