Whittier College News Release
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5TH ANNUAL BOOKFAIRE DELIVERS L.A.
AUTHORS
Whittier, CA (March 17, 2005)—The
Friends of the Shannon Center’s 5th Annual Meet the Authors and
Bookfaire will take place on Saturday, April 2, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in
the Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts, 6760 Painter Avenue, located
on the Whittier College campus. The Bookfaire program primarily features local
authors; scheduled to speak are two keynoters—novelists Helie Lee and Rosalind
Miles—and includes authors from a variety of genres. This event is open to the
public; tickets are $50.00 and include lunch with the authors. Reservations are
required and may be made by calling the Shannon Center Box Office, (562)
907-4203.
The full
program includes the following speakers:
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Helie Lee, author
of the national bestseller Still Life With Rice and In The Absence
of Sun, memoirs in which she chronicles her family’s experience in
war-torn Korea from the 1930s to 1997;
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Rosalind Miles, an
Oxford-educated scholar, a renowned author on feminism, and a critically
acclaimed novelist of over twenty books including I, Elizabeth and the
Guenevere Trilogy;
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Firoozeh Dumas,
whose memoir
Funny in Farsi has earned Orange County Reads One Book’s “2004 Book of the
Year” and was selected for the Whittier Public Library Foundation’s “One Book
One Whittier” project;
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Denise Hamilton,
author of the best-selling Eve Diamond crime novels--The Jasmine Trade,
Sugar Skull, and Last Lullaby -- featuring a reporter who solves
murders in contemporary multicultural Los Angeles;
- J.
S. Holliday,
considered by many to be the foremost historian on the California Gold Rush
and author of The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience
and Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California;
- Paul
Mandelbaum,
short story author and nonfiction writer for The New York Times
Sunday Magazine, among others; winner of a James Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award; and whose recent
debut novel, Garrett in Wedlock, has earned rave reviews;
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Robert Masello,
author of novels, magazine and newspaper articles, television shows, and a
number of non-fiction works such as The Things Your Father Never Taught
You, Proverbial Wisdom, and Raising Hell;
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Susan Goldman Rubin,
author and illustrator of children’s books as well as two novels, Emily Good As
Gold and Emily in Love, which feature a developmentally disabled
heroine, and award-winning author of a number of biographies, art books, and
nonfiction works focusing on the Holocaust and the disenfranchised;
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David Ulin,
essayist, book critic, and
editor of the award-winning
Another City: Writing
from Los Angeles and
Writing Los Angeles: A
Literary Anthology; frequent contributor to the
Los
Angeles Times
and
LA Weekly;
and
recipient of the 2002
California Book Award.
The Bookfaire is an annual fundraising event for the Friends of the Shannon
Center, the official support group of the Ruth B. Shannon Center for the
Performing Arts. The proceeds are used to
maintain the premises, fund
the outreach programs for local elementary schools and support the performing
arts at Whittier College.
The
Shannon Center is located at the northeast corner of Painter Ave. and
Philadelphia St. on the Whittier College campus. For directions or information
about other events, please contact the Box Office, (562) 907-4203.
Founded
by Quakers in 1887, Whittier College is an independent, four-year college
offering a traditional liberal arts program integrated with both professional
and pre-professional courses of study. With an emphasis on diversity, community,
and curricular innovation, the College’s primary mission is to endow students
with the education, skills, and values appropriate for global leadership and
service.
Whittier Law School,
which is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the
Association of American Law Schools, is located on a separate campus in Orange
County. |
