A Celebration of Authors 2016

A Celebration of Authors 2016 

The signature fundraising event of the Worcester Public Library Foundation Please join us for an extraordinary evening of cocktails, food and conversation with four celebrated authors to benefit the programs and services of the Worcester Public Library. 

 Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 5:30-9:00 p.m. 

The White Room @ Crompton Collective 138 Green Street Worcester, MA 

Anita Diamant

Anita Diamant is the Boston-based author of 12 books, including bestsellers The Boston Girl and The Red Tent. Her novels Day After Night, Good Harbor, and The Last Days of Dogtown are book-group favorites, too. Diamant is the author of a collection of essays, Pitching My Tent, and six non-fiction guides to contemporary Jewish Life, including The New Jewish Wedding, and Choosing a Jewish Life. Her writing has appeared in such publications as The Boston Globe, Real Simple and Hadassah Magazine. She was the founding president of Mayyim Hayyim, Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center in Newton, Massachusetts, www.mayyimhayyim.org. Visit her web site at www.antiadiamant.com.

Joseph Finder

 Joseph Finder is the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen novels, including The Fixer,
Suspicion, Vanished, and Buried Secrets. Finder's international bestseller Killer Instinct won the International Thriller Writers' Thriller Award for Best Novel of 2006. Other bestselling titles include Paranoia and High Crimes, which both became major motion pictures. He lives in Boston.

  

Lily King 

Lily King is the author of The Pleasing Hour, The English Teacher, Father of the Rain, and the New York Times bestseller, Euphoria. She is winner of the Kirkus Prize, two time winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction and a NYTBR Top Ten Book of the Year author. She lives with her family in Maine.

Ann Leary

Ann Leary is the New York Times bestselling author of The Children, The Good House, An Innocent,
A Broad and Outtakes from a Marriage. She has written short fiction and essays for the New York Times, Ploughshares, NPR's "You Must Read This," among various others. Ms. Leary and her husband, actor Denis Leary, live in northwestern Connecticut.







Joe Cox, Moderator, is President of the EcoTarium, New England's leading science and nature center.