birth_place nationality name birth_date known_for article_title birth_name occupation
new haven , connecticut , u.s. american david isay 5 december 1965 founder of storycorps david isay
 david avram isay radio producer
david isay

david avram `` dave '' isay -lrb- born december 5 , 1965 -rrb- is an american radio producer and founder of sound portraits productions .
he is also the founder of storycorps , an ongoing oral history project .
he is the recipient of numerous broadcasting honors , including six peabody awards and a macarthur `` genius '' fellowship .
he is the author/editor of numerous books that grew out of his public radio documentary work , including three storycorps books : listening is an act of love -lrb- 2007 -rrb- , mom : a celebration of mothers from storycorps , and all there is : love stories from storycorps -lrb- 2012 -rrb- -- all new york times bestsellers .
storycorps ' fourth and latest book , ties that bind : stories of love and gratitude from the first ten years of storycorps , was released in the fall of 2013 to coincide with the organization 's 10th anniversary .
since 2003 , storycorps has collected and archived more than 50,000 interviews with 100,000 participants .
each conversation is preserved at the american folklife center at the library of congress .
storycorps is the largest single collection of voices ever gathered , and millions listen to storycorps ' weekly broadcasts on npr 's morning edition and on storycorps.org .
