Prairie Dog

A social storyteller who built community through the written word.

Dickens was the quintessential communicator — a prolific writer who published his novels in serialized installments, building devoted reader communities one chapter at a time and famously reading his work aloud to huge, rapt audiences. He was deeply embedded in social life, a tireless campaigner for the poor, and his genius lay in witty observation of human society, skewering injustice with humor and pathos. Like the prairie-dog, he thrived on connection, collective storytelling, and an almost compulsive need to produce, communicate, and entertain.