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He was reunited with When the school curtain at last goes up, a series of in 1966, the FOL is an independent, 501(c)(3) Please indicate the name(s) of your guest(s) and any his mother in 1965 in Chicago but would never unexpected, hilarious and touching events brings nonprofit organization. special seating requests: again see his beloved father, who died in Cuba. both the play and Wolitzer’s story to a cathartic FOL Board of Directors 2010–2011 Carlos earned his Ph.D. in 1979 at Yale and enlightening close. Amy Bass, President; Nancy Wright and Ellen University where he is now Riggs Professor of Meg Wolitzer is a graduate of Brown University. Zimmerman, Vice Presidents; Eleanor Rybecky, History and Religious Studies. He is an expert She is the author of eight previous novels. She Secretary; Tinu Thakore, Treasurer in the social, intellectual, religious and cultural lives in New York with her husband and sons. Directors: Margaret DeSiervo, Robert Drew, Karen history of medieval and early modern Europe. He Her mother, novelist Hilma Wolitzer, spoke at a Gordon, Beverly Halm, Carol Hiller, Sylvia Kamisher, lives in Guilford, Connecticut with his wife and Friends of the Library Book & Author Luncheon Pamela O’Connell, Lauren Smith, Selma Willner three children. in 1989 on her novel, Silver.