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disparaged.” The American Scholar O’Connell, Eleanor Rybecky, Fern Treiber, Selma Willner One Library Drive NY 11050 Port Washington, to the Invitation Your 49th Annual Book & Author Luncheon 200 L.I.E. North Service Road, Manhasset Alice McDermott Russell Shorto Susan Isaacs Reserve Your Place Now! The Ninth Hour Revolution Song: A Story Program Moderator (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017) of American Freedom Make your check payable to FOL and mail this reservation (W.W. Norton & Company, 2017) form to FOL Assistant Treasurer: Danielle Tane 26 Crescent Rd. Epic Photography Port Washington, NY 11050 Jamie Schoenberger (917) 488-9462 [email protected] Alice McDermott is the acclaimed author Russell Shorto is one of America’s foremost authors Susan Isaacs was dubbed “Jane Austen with a of eight novels including Charming Billy, winner of of narrative history. He was a featured speaker shmear” by NPR’s book critic. Among her thirteen Reservations should be mailed by Wednesday, May 2 and will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis. the 1998 National Book Award and an American at our 2005 luncheon discussing The Island at bestselling novels are Lily White, Shining Through MAIL EARLY! No walk-ins please. Book Award. Her books At Weddings and the Center of the World. The book, about Dutch and After All These Years. She has written No tickets are issued. A record of reservations is kept at Wakes, After This and That Night were finalists Manhattan, was a national best-seller and is screenplays for two films:Compromising Positions, the door. For more information, you may also call Lynn for the Pulitzer Prize. Her stories, essays and currently being developed as a television series. an adaptation of her novel, and Hello Again. She Moessner at the library at (516) 883-4400, Ext. 101. reviews have appeared in The New York Times, In his new epic, Revolution Song, Shorto takes also has one nonfiction work to her credit,Brave The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Harpers, us back to the founding of the American nation, Dames and Wimpettes: What Women are Really NAME

Commonweal and elsewhere. drawing on diaries, letters and autobiographies Doing on Page and Screen. Before she took to ADDRESS Her new novel, The Ninth Hour, was lauded as to flesh out six lives that cast the era in a fresh books, she was an editor at Seventeen magazine one of the Top 10 of 2017 by the Wall Street Journal, new light. Through these lives we understand and a freelance political speechwriter.

Time Magazine, NPR and Library Journal, and was that the revolution was fought over the meaning An alumna of Queens College, Isaacs currently PHONE a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award of individual freedom, a philosophical idea chairs the board of directors of the literary E-MAIL for Fiction. In it, McDermott offers a powerfully that became a force for violent change. A organization Poets & Writers. She is past president affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a brilliant defense of American values, Revolution of Mystery Writers of America and belongs to Reserve _____ place(s) at $85 each $______widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve Song makes the compelling case that the revolution the National Book Critics Circle, PEN, and the Salute our 49th Anniversary Luncheon their Irish-American community in Brooklyn. On is still being fought today. International Association of Crime Writers. Among with an additional donation $______a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant Shorto earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy her honors are the John Steinbeck Award, the Total Enclosed $______opens the gas taps in his tenement. His suicide from The George Washington University. He is Writers for Writers award, and the Marymount reverberates through many lives over the decades, currently Senior Scholar at the New Netherland Manhattan Writing Center prize. ($40 of each ticket and any additional contributions are tax deductible.) testing the limits and the demands of love and Institute and a contributing writer at The New York Her most recent works are the novella, A Hint sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness. Times Magazine. He is a fellow of the New York of Strangeness, and the short story, “Getting Vegetarian meals available. _____ Please indicate number requested. McDermott earned her BA at SUNY Oswego Academy of History and a member of the Advisory Somewhere,” included in the anthology It Seems and her MA from the University of New Hampshire. Board of the John Adams Institute in Amsterdam. to Me That I Am America. She has just finished her Please indicate the name(s) of your guest(s) and seating Currently she is the Richard A. Macksey Professor In 2009 he received a knighthood from the Dutch fourteenth novel (and first of a series),Takes One to requests. We try our best to honor your requests. of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. She government for advancing Dutch-American Know One. is the recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the relations. His awards include the New York City She lives with her husband, a criminal defense Carington Award for Literary Excellence, and the Book Award, the Washington Irving Prize, and the lawyer, in Port Washington.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for American Literature. New York Public Library Award. In 2018 he was In 2013 McDermott, who grew up on Long named to the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Island, was inducted into the New York State He currently is writing a book about the post- At the luncheon we will be selling our featured Writers Hall of Fame. She lives with her family WWII years in his hometown of Johnstown, Pa. He outside Washington, D.C. lives in Cumberland, Md., with his wife and family. books (available for signing) and raffle tickets. The GRAND RAFFLE PRIZE will be a $1,000 Americana Manhasset Shopping Spree!