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Dr. Jaina Sanga is the author of three works of fiction: a novel titled Silk Fish Opium; a book of short stories, Train to Bombay; and a book of novellas, Tourist Season. She is also a literary scholar and has published a book on Salman Rushdie. Sanga serves on the Board of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture and is also a Fellow of the Institute. She is currently working BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH CONVERSATION on her fourth book of fiction, a detective novel set in India.

11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Each session: $40 public; $35 DMA Member/Educator/Student Dr. Randi Tanglen is Associate Professor of English, Director Join fellow bibliophiles for lunch in the DMA's Cook Boardroom (unless of the Gender Studies program, and Director of the Robert and Joyce Johnson Center for Faculty Development and otherwise noted) as you enjoy the opportunity to delve more deeply into a Excellence in Teaching at Austin College in Sherman. She featured book. By and sharing insights together before or after hearing teaches classes on women , protest literature, and the author speak, we hope your experience will be even richer and more 19th-century American literature. In 2012, she was named one of the Princeton Review’s “Top 300 Professors.” meaningful. Please note that these are book discussions, not author events.

Executive Director Amy Lewis Hofland leads the Crow Museum of Asian Art of the University of Texas at Dallas, Quichotte Autumn Light the preeminent museum in the southern by Salman Rushdie by Pico Iyer dedicated to the arts and cultures of Asia. Hofland is a life- Wednesday, Wednesday, long student, devoted to her work at the museum and to September 11 November 6 creating a more compassionate society. She recently led the Dallas Arts District’s signing of the International Charter for Conversation Conversation Compassion and she Chairs the Dallas Arts District Board. facilitated by facilitated by Dr. Jaina Sanga Amy Hofland

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Conversation facilitated by Dr. Randi Tanglen "When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humor and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book." Visit DMA.org/ALL for updates and other details. —Christopher Morley

4 DMA.org/ALL DMA.org/ALL 5 DISTINGUISHED WRITERS DISTINGUISHED WRITERS SALMAN RUSHDIE TRACY CHEVALIER In conversation with author Jaina Sanga tuesday, september 17, 7:30 pm horchow auditorium thursday, september 5, 7:30 pm moody performance hall Tracy Chevalier is bestselling Internationally bestselling author Salman author of nine previous novels, including Girl Rushdie delivers Quichotte, a dazzling Don with a Pearl Earring, which has been translated Quixote for the modern age—a tour de force that into 39 languages and made into an Oscar- is as much an homage to an immortal work of nominated film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett literature as it is to the quest for love and family. Johansson.

Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam Chevalier's tenth and newest novel, A Single DuChamp, mediocre of spy thrillers, Thread, is an immersive, moving story of a creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman woman coming into her own at the dawn of who falls impossibly in love with a television the Second World War. After the Great War star. He sets off with his imaginary son Sancho took her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet on a picaresque quest across America to prove Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one himself worthy of her hand. Just as Cervantes of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood wrote to satirize the culture of his after the war killed so many young men. Yet time, Rushdie uses his trademark storytelling Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent TICKET PRICES TICKET PRICES book included magic to take the reader on a wild ride through caring for her grieving, embittered mother. She a country on the verge of moral and spiritual Public: $40 VIP Experience (limited quantity) Member/Educator: $30 finally saves enough to move out of her mother's Includes reserved front collapse, rendering a wickedly entertaining Student: $20 place and into the town of Winchester, home section seating and a portrait of an age in which fact is so often signed hardcover copy of to one of England's grandest cathedrals, where Quichotte indiscernible from fiction. she is drawn into a society of broderers—women Public: $80 who embroider kneelers for the cathedral, Member: $70 Salman Rushdie is the author of 13 previous novels, including Midnight’s Children, for which carrying on a centuries-long tradition of One ticket + one book he won the and Best of the Booker; bringing comfort to worshippers. Violet finds Public: $60 a sense of community, fulfillment in the work Member/Educator: $55 one of short stories; and four works of Student: $50 nonfiction, and has co-edited two anthologies. they create, and even a growing friendship. But He is a member of the American Academy of when forces threaten her new independence Two tickets + one book and another war appears on the horizon, Violet Public: $80 Arts and Letters and is currently a Distinguished Member/Educator: $75 Writer in Residence at . must fight to put down roots. Told in Chevalier's Student: $70 glorious prose, A Single Thread is a timeless story A former president of PEN American Center, There will not be a book Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to of friendship, love, and a woman crafting her signing following this event. literature. own life.

“A glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual “Chevalier is a master at foregrounding the small, dramatic stories resources, a master of perpetual storytelling.” of overlooked people from the past.”

6 DMA.org/ALL —The New Yorker —Geraldine Brooks DMA.org/ALL 7 SPECIAL EVENT ARTFUL MUSINGS JIM MATTIS BEN FOLDS In conversation with Ryan Taylor of Minnesota Opera In conversation with Jim Falk of saturday, september 21, 7:30 pm friday, september 20, 7:30 pm horchow auditorium dallas baptist university, pilgrim chapel Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major

In partnership with World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth and music influencers of our generation. He has Dallas Baptist University created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes albums with Ben Folds Five, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by retired Marine multiple solo albums, a classical piano concerto, general and the 26th United States Secretary of and collaborations with artists ranging from Defense Jim Mattis—one of the most formidable Sara Bareilles to William Shatner. Featured for strategic thinkers and most revered military five seasons as a judge on NBC's acclaimed leaders of our time—is a clear-eyed account of a cappella show The Sing Off, Folds is also an avid learning how to lead in a chaotic world. photographer and an outspoken champion Mattis will discuss his storied career over four for arts education and music therapy in public decades, from wide-ranging leadership roles schools. in three wars to ultimately commanding a A celebrated singer-songwriter, beloved for quarter of a million troops across the Middle songs such as “Brick” and “You Don’t Know TICKET PRICES East. Recounting his foundational experiences Me,” and the former frontman of the band Ben as a leader, Mattis extracts the lessons he has TICKET PRICES VIP Experience (limited quantity) Folds Five, he will be the first to tell you he’s Includes reserved front learned about the nature of warfighting and VIP Experience (limited quantity) an unconventional icon. In his first book and section seating and a peacemaking, the importance of allies, and the Includes reserved front signed hardcover copy of section seating, a hardcover memoir, A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of strategic dilemmas now facing our nation. This Call Sign Chaos copy of A Dream About Lightning Music and Cheap Lessons, Folds reflects on his Public: $80 conversation will focus on Mattis's insights about Bugs, and a Fast Track pass DMA/WAC Member/Veteran: $70 for the book signing life in a charming and wise chronicle of his leadership, not on politics. Public: $80 artistic coming of age, infused with the wry One ticket + one book Member/Educator: $75 Call Sign Chaos is a memoir of a life of warfighting observations of a natural storyteller. He opens up Public: $60 and lifelong learning, following along as Mattis DMA/WAC Member: $55 One ticket + one book about finding his voice as a musician, becoming Veteran/Student: $45 rises from Marine recruit to four-star general. Public: $60 a rock antihero, and hauling a baby grand piano It is a journey about learning to lead and a Member/Educator: $55 Two tickets + one book Student: $50 on and off stage for every performance. In his story about how he, through constant study Public: $80 inimitable voice, Folds digs deep into the life Two tickets + one book DMA/WAC Member: $75 and action, developed a unique leadership experiences that shaped him, imparting hard- Veteran/Student: $65 philosophy, one relevant to us all. Public: $80 Member/Educator: $75 earned wisdom about both art and life. “Combining simplicity and thoughtfulness, Jim Mattis has produced a Student: $70 “A Dream About Lightning Bugs reads like its author: classic account of a lifetime of service. Call Sign Chaos is a lesson in intelligent, curious, unapologetically punk, and funny as hell.” leadership and an evocation of humanity in the cause of peace.” —Sara Bareilles —Henry Kissinger

8 DMA.org/ALL DMA.org/ALL 9 DISTINGUISHED WRITERS DISTINGUISHED WRITERS MARGARET ATWOOD KRISTIN HANNAH

In conversation with author Kathleen Kent In conversation with Krys Boyd of

monday, september 23, 7:30 pm monday, september 30, 7:30 pm mcfarlin auditorium, first united methodist church southern methodist university In Kristin Hannah’s #1 New York Times instant In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Great Alone, a desperate family acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated the questions that have tantalized readers for wilderness of Alaska, only to find that their decades. When the van door slammed on Offred’s unpredictable environment is less threatening future at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers than the erratic behavior found in human had no way of telling what lay ahead for her— nature. In this unforgettable portrait of freedom, prison, or death. With , human frailty and resilience, Hannah reveals the wait is over. Atwood’s sequel picks up indomitable character of the modern story 15 years after Offred stepped into the American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing unknown, with the explosive testaments of three Alaska—a place of incomparable beauty and female narrators from Gilead. danger. The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful,

stay-up-all-night novel about love and loss, Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 40 the fight for survival, and the wildness that TICKET PRICES TICKET PRICES books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In lives in both man and nature. VIP Experience (limited quantity) One ticket + one book addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, now an award- Includes reserved front winning TV series, her novels include Cat’s Eye, Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and Public: $60 section seating, a Member/Educator: $55 short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, copy of The Great Alone, and bestselling author of more than 20 novels, Student: $50 a Fast Track pass for the which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the including the international blockbuster book signing The Nightingale, which has been published in Two tickets + one book Premio Mondello in Italy; , winner Public: $65 Public: $80 of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; Member/Educator: $60 43 languages and in 2015 was voted a best book Member/Educator: $75 and Hag-Seed, a retelling of Shakespeare’s The of the year by Amazon, Buzzfeed, Journal, Student: $70 Regular Tickets , and numerous other Tempest. She is the recipient of numerous awards, Public: $40 There will not be a book Member/Educator: $30 sources. The Nightingale is currently in movie signing following this event. including the Franz Kafka Prize, the PEN Center Student: $20 USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los production at TriStar Pictures, which also This is one of only five Angeles Times Innovator’s Award. optioned her novel The Great Alone. live events literary legend Margaret Atwood is holding in the US in conjunction “Hannah vividly evokes the natural beauty and danger of Alaska with the release of her new “Dear Readers: Everything you’ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner novel. and paints a compelling portrait of a family in crisis and a workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other community on the brink of change.” inspiration is the world we’ve been living in.” —Margaret Atwood —Booklist

10 DMA.org/ALL DMA.org/ALL 11 NEW & NOTABLE DISTINGUISHED WRITERS CASEY GERALD ANN PATCHETT tuesday, october 1, 7:30 pm sunday, october 6, 7:00 pm horchow auditorium first united methodist church Co-sponsored by the William P. Clements Department of History, SMU

Ann Patchett’s much-anticipated new novel Named a "Best Book of 2018" by NPR and the The Dutch House is a poignant and compelling New York Times, There Will Be No Miracles Here is exploration of the indelible bond between two a memoir that has the arc of a classic rags- siblings over the course of five decades. Danny to-riches tale, but turns the American Dream and Maeve Conroy struggle to overcome the loss narrative on its head. of their mother—who abandons the family to

help the poor—and the subsequent remarriage Casey Gerald's story begins in the Oak Cliff of their real estate mogul father to a materialistic neighborhood of Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, younger woman. When their father dies when he gathers with the congregation of unexpectedly, the wealthy siblings are thrown his grandfather's black evangelical church into poverty and premature independence. As to see which of them will be carried off in they grapple with questions of inheritance, love, the Rapture. His beautiful, fragile mother and , they cling to each other with disappears frequently and mysteriously, uncommon fierceness. When they are forced leaving him and his sister to live on her to confront the people who abandoned them, disability checks. When Gerald—following in TICKET PRICES the now-adult Conroys encounter holes in the the footsteps of his father, a gridiron legend TICKET PRICES Public: $30 protective cloak in which they have wrapped One ticket + one book Member/Educator: $25 who literally broke his back for the team—is Public: $50 themselves. Student: $15 recruited to play football at Yale, he enters a Member/Educator: $45 world of secret societies and success on Wall Student: $40 Ann Patchett is the author of seven novels, Street, in Washington, and beyond. But even Two tickets + one book including Bel Canto and Commonwealth, and as he attains the inner sanctums of power, Public: $75 three works of nonfiction. She has won Gerald sees how the world crushes those who Member/Educator: $65 numerous prizes, including the PEN/Faulkner "Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled Student: $55 live at its margins, how the elite perpetuate Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction, and off the most urgently political, most the salvation stories that keep others from her work has been translated into more than deeply personal, and most engagingly rising, and, most painfully, how his own 30 languages. She was named one of the 100 spiritual statement of our time by just ascension is part of the scheme. looking outside his window and inside most influential people in the world by Time himself. Extraordinary.” After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business magazine. Patchett is the co-owner of School, Casey Gerald co-founded MBAs Across Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee. — America. He has been featured at TED and SXSW and on the cover of Fast Company. “Patchett’s splendid novel is a thoughtful, compassionate exploration of obsession and forgiveness, what people acquire, keep, lose or give away, and what they leave behind.”

—, starred review

12 DMA.org/ALL DMA.org/ALL 13 BOOKSMART NEW & NOTABLE KATE DICAMILLO BENJAMIN MOSER In conversation with author Ben Fountain saturday, october 12, 2:30 pm horchow auditorium monday, october 14, 7:30 pm horchow auditorium

Two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo In Sontag: Her Life and Work, Benjamin returns to the world of Raymie Nightengale in Moser delves into the life of one of the most her new book Beverly, Right Here, turning her emblematic voices of the 20th century: focus to tough-talking, tenderhearted Beverly —novelist, activist, essayist, Tapinski. Beverly ran away from home plenty playwright, filmmaker, and one of the of times when she was just a kid. Now that most influential critics of her generation. she’s 14, she figures it’s not running away, but Mythologized and misunderstood, Sontag leaving. Determined to make it on her own, left a legacy of writing—on art and politics, Beverly finds a job and a place to live. She tries feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried style, and more—that forms an indispensable underneath the orange trees back home; her key to modern culture. She was there when friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; the Cuban Revolution began, and when the and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared Berlin Wall came down; she was in Vietnam about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn’t under American bombardment, and in New want to depend on anyone, and definitely York with artists Andy Warhol and Jasper doesn’t want anyone to depend on her. But TICKET PRICES TICKET PRICES Johns. Sontag: Her Life and Work explores the despite her best efforts, she can’t help forming VIP Experience Public: $15 insecurity behind her formidable public face. Member/Educator: $10 connections with the people around her—and (limited quantity) Includes reserved front Drawing from the writer’s restricted archives, Student: $7 gradually, she learns to see herself through section seating, a discounted interviews with those who have remained Designed for families their eyes. In a touching, funny, and fearless hardcover copy of Sontag: Her silent on her until now (including Annie with children age 10 and conclusion to her books about the beloved Life and Work, and a Fast Track older and for adults who are pass for the book signing Leibovitz), and nearly 100 images, Sontag crafts young at heart Three Rancheros, #1 New York Times bestselling Public: $65 a definitive portrait of one of the world's most author Kate DiCamillo tells the story of a Member/Educator: $55 towering intellectuals and brings her legacy to character who will break your heart and put it Regular Tickets life for a new generation. back together again. Public: $30 Member/Educator: $25 Benjamin Moser is a native, a Kate DiCamillo is a National Book Award Student: $15 translator, and author of Why This World: A finalist and was named National Ambassador Biography of , a finalist for the for Young People's Literature. Her books’ National Book Critics Circle Award. He was a themes of hope and belief amid impossible recipient of the 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship. circumstances and their messages of shared

humanity and connectedness have resonated “An astonishing page-turner, the last word on Susan Sontag. I can’t with readers of all ages around the world, imagine the necessity of another book about her life.” with almost 30 million books in print —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend worldwide.

14 DMA.org/ALL DMA.org/ALL 15 ARTFUL MUSINGS NEW & NOTABLE PICO IYER wednesday, october 16, 7:30 pm tuesday, october 22, 7:30 pm horchow auditorium horchow auditorium

Pico Iyer’s memoir Autumn Light: Season of The Fountains of Silence by master storyteller Fire and Farewells is a moving meditation on Ruta Sepetys is an epic, heart-wrenching story about identity, unforgettable love, impermanence, mortality, and grief that also repercussions of war, and the hidden explores Japanese history and culture. Drawn violence of silence—inspired by the true back to Japan by the sudden death of his postwar struggles of Spain. Under the fascist father-in-law, Iyer grapples with the question dictatorship of General , we all have to live with: how to hold on to Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, the things we love, even though we know tourists and foreign businessmen flood into that we—and they—are dying. Iyer leads us Spain under the welcoming guise of sunshine through the year following his father-in- and wine. Among them is Dallas high- law's death, introducing us to the people who society teen Daniel Matheson, the son of an populate his days: his ailing mother-in-law, oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with his who often forgets that her husband has died; parents hoping to connect with the country his absent brother-in-law, who severed ties of his mother's birth through the lens of his camera. Photography—and fate—introduce with his family years ago; and the men and him to Ana, whose family's obstacles reveal women in his ping-pong club, who traverse TICKET PRICES TICKET PRICES the lingering grasp of the Spanish Civil War, their autumn years in different ways. As Public: $40 Public: $20 as well as chilling definitions of fortune and the seasons change, Iyer reminds us of the Member/Educator: $30 Member/Educator: $15 fear. Daniel's photographs leave him with Student: $20 Student: $10 impermanence of our surroundings and to uncomfortable questions amidst shadows of take nothing for granted. 6:30 p.m. danger. He is backed into a corner of decisions Explore highlights of Japanese Pico Iyer is the author of two novels and 10 to protect those he loves, revealing an art, including Hiroshige’s works of nonfiction, including A Beginner’s incredibly dark side to the sunny Spanish city. TŌkaidŌ prints, on a pre-event tour with a DMA docent. Guide to Japan (September 2019), a playful Ruta Sepetys is an internationally acclaimed and profound guidebook full of surprising, author of . Her novel Between brief, incisive glimpses into Japanese culture. Shades of Gray was adapted into the film Ashes An essayist for Time since 1982, Iyer has also in the Snow, and Salt to was praised by the Wall Street Journal as “superlative” and written for the New York Times, Conde Nast “masterly crafted.” Winner of the Carnegie Traveler, and , and has given Medal, Sepetys is passionate about the three TED talks. He was educated at Oxford power of history and literature to foster and Harvard. global awareness and connectivity. She “This season teaches him the lesson of impermanence, the has presented to NATO, to the European inevitability of decay. . . . There’s much wisdom in what he says.” Parliament, in the United States Capitol, and at embassies worldwide. —The New York Times

16 DMA.org/ALL DMA.org/ALL 17 DISTINGUISHED WRITERS WIT & WISDOM JOHN GRISHAM TIM O'BRIEN In conversation with author and lawyer Talmage monday, november 11, 7:30 pm horchow auditorium thursday, october 24, 7:30 pm eisemann center for performing arts, hill performance hall After becoming a father for the first time at the age of 58, National Book Award–winning novelist Tim O’Brien did the math, and it was The Guardians, John Grisham’s latest legal grim. When his two young sons would begin to thriller, delivers pulse-pounding suspense know him, they would know an old man. He coupled with some of his most inventive twists regretted waiting so long to have them and that and turns yet. In a small Florida town, a young he wouldn’t be around to teach them everything lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his he had learned. desk as he worked late one night. With no clues, no witnesses, and no real suspects, the police O’Brien resolved to give his sons what he soon settle on Quincy Miller, a young black man wished his own father had given him—a few who was once a client of Russo’s. scraps of paper signed “Love, Dad.” Maybe a Quincy languishes in prison for 22 years until he word of advice. Maybe a sentence or two about writes a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small some long-ago Christmas Eve. Maybe some innocence group founded by a lawyer–minister scattered glimpses of their rapidly aging father, named Cullen Post. Cullen travels the South a man they might never really know. For the fighting wrongful convictions and taking cases next 15 years, the author talked to his sons on no one else will touch. With Quincy Miller, paper, as if they were adults, imagining what TICKET PRICES TICKET PRICES though, he gets far more than he bargained for. they might want to hear from a father who The first 1,000 ticket bundles Public: $40 purchased will include a Powerful, ruthless people murdered Keith Russo, DMA Member/Veteran: $30 was no longer among the living. The result is pre-signed copy of The Guardians. and they do not want Quincy exonerated. They Student: $20 Dad’s Maybe Book—the first new book by O’Brien

killed one lawyer 22 years ago, and they will kill in almost two decades—in which he shares There will not be a book signing after this event. another one without a second thought. wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and VIP Experience John Grisham is the #1 New York Times bestselling rewards of raising two sons. (limited quantity) author of more than 30 novels, one work of Includes reserved front section nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels seating and a signed hardcover O’Brien’s acclaimed novels include The Things copy of The Guardians for young readers. By request of the author, a Public: $80 They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods, and Going portion of ticket sales for this event will go to the Member/Educator: $75 After Cacciato, which won the 1979 National Texas chapter of The Innocence Project, which One ticket + one book Book Award in fiction. In 2013 he was awarded exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA or two tickets + one book the Pritzker Military Library Literature $50–$80 based on seat location; testing and reforms the criminal justice system Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military tickets include a hardcover book. to prevent future injustice. Writing. Most recently, he was a co-writer on For tickets, visit the Vietnam episodes of This Is Us. Raised in eisemanncenter.com/events-tickets or call 972-744-4650. Minnesota, he now lives in Austin, Texas.

18 DMA.org/ALL DMA.org/ALL 19 DISTINGUISHED WRITERS SPECIAL EVENT SAMANTHA POWER PEGGY WALLACE KENNEDY monday, november 18, 7:30 pm the hockaday school, & DONNA WILHELM nancy a. nasher and david j. haemisegger theater In conversation with Krys Boyd of

thursday, december 5, 7:30 pm In partnership with horchow auditorium

In her new memoir The Education of an Idealist, Peggy Wallace Kennedy was just a young girl in the Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power summer of 1963 when her father stood in a schoolhouse traces her distinctly American journey from door trying to block two African American students Irish immigrant to human rights activist to US from entering the University of Alabama. Her memoir Ambassador to the United Nations. President The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey heralded Power as one of to Reconciliation reflects on the politics of her youth and America’s “foremost thinkers on foreign policy.” attempts to reconcile her adored father with his legacy of governing by fear and hate. At the end of his life, Power began her career as a war correspondent Wallace came to renounce his views, and his daughter and put her ideals into practice while working had a political awakening, after which she dedicated with Obama in the Senate, on the campaign much of her life to attemping to repair some of the trail, and throughout his presidency. Power’s damage he caused. Timely and timeless, The Broken Road perspective on government is unique, speaks to change, atonement, activism, and racial transporting us from the streets of war-torn reconciliation. TICKET PRICES Bosnia to the Situation Room and into the world of high-stakes diplomacy. VIP Experience (limited quantity) Arts advocate and philanthropist Donna Wilhelm grew Includes reserved front section seating and a signed hardcover In gripping prose, Power illuminates the up in an immigrant boarding house run by her Polish copy of The Education of an Idealist complex worlds of politics and geopolitics while mother. A Life of My Own: A Memoir is an immersive Public: $70 laying bare the battles and defining moments of story of her reinvention and transformation—from DMA/WAC Member/Educator: $60 Veteran/Student: $50 her life, such as juggling a demanding job with lonely child, to corporate wife and devoted mother, the challenge of raising two small children. She to fiber artist, jewelry designer, and middle-aged One ticket + one book Public: $50 reminds us how the United States can lead, and divorcee. With unbridled honesty, Wilhelm reveals DMA/WAC Member/Educator: $45 why there is always something each of us can her unique upbringing, diverse work history, and Veteran/Student: $40 do to advance the cause of human dignity. The family challenges, and the journey of personal growth

Two tickets + one book Education of an Idealist is a humorous, stirring, and that allowed her to overcome the turmoil of her inner Public: $70 unforgettable account of the world-changing life. Her search for self-realization explores lies and DMA/WAC Member/Educator: $65 TICKET PRICES deception about her origins, and a quest for truth Veteran/Student: $60 power of idealism—and of one person’s fierce Public: $30

determination to make a difference. Member/Educator: $25 and understanding that ultimately shapes her into For tickets, visit Student: $15 a philanthropic thought leader with a clear sense of dfwworld.org/power or call 214-965-8400. purpose and a humanitarian vision.

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