David Kessler
David Kessler was born in Brooklyn. He learned his first lesson in love and loss when the Dodgers left town. He relocated to Hartford, where he was exposed to New England culture. He then headed west, first to Kalamazoo College, and eventually fulfilled his lifelong desire to live in Berkeley. After doing graduate work in history at the University of California, he went to work in the university library. He recently retired from its fabled Bancroft Library. He continues to indulge his...

