Literary Voices
A Friends of the Libraries Event
Saturday April 27, 2013, 6pm, UW Club
Friends of the Libraries' eighth annual Literary Voices dinner is on Saturday, April 27, 6pm (social hour) 7pm (dinner) at the UW Club. Tickets are $125. Proceeds benefit Libraries preservation, collections, and student scholarships.
Send an email or phone 206-616-8397, or print and fill out an order form and mail or fax it with payment information.
Garth Stein, Keynote Speaker
Garth Stein is the author of the New York Times best selling novel, The Art of Racing in the Rain (Harper, 2008). Now published in 30 languages, The Art of Racing in the Rain was the #1 BookSense selection for June, 2008, the Starbucks spring/summer 2008 book selection, and has been on the IndieBound bestseller list since its publication.
Stein's previous novel, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets (Soho Press, 2005) won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and was a BookSense Pick in both hardcover and paperback. Raven Stole the Moon (Harper, 2010) was Stein's first novel.
He has also written a full-length play, Brother Jones, and produced a number of award-winning documentaries.
Garth is the co-founder of Seattle7Writers, a non-profit organization comprising 42 prominent Northwest authors dedicated to creating connections between readers, writers, booksellers, and librarians to foster and support a passion for the written word.
Born in Los Angeles and raised in Seattle, Garth's ancestry is diverse: his mother, a native of Alaska, is of Tlingit Indian and Irish descent; his father, a Brooklyn native, is the child of Jewish emigrants from Austria. After spending his childhood in Seattle and then living in New York City for 18 years, Garth returned to Seattle, where he currently lives with his wife, three sons, and their dog, Comet.
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2010
Keynote Speaker
Timothy Egan
Authors
Paul Bannick
Knute Berger
Nicolette Bromberg
Linda Chalker-Scott
Ellen Dissanayake
Curtis Ebbesmeyer
Karen Fisher
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Lesley Hazlelton
Jim Lynch
Heather McHugh
Doug Nufer
Art Thiel
Coll Thrush
Sasha Su-Ling Welland
David B. Williams
Presenting Partners
2009
Keynote Speaker
J.A. Jance
Authors
Kathleen Alcala´
Bruce Barcott
Daniel James Brown
Charles R. Cross
Madeline DeFrees
Lauro Flores
Lawrence Kreisman
Marc Laidlaw
Lynda Mapes
Cliff Mass
Ann Pancake
Malcolm Parks
Matt Ruff
Peter Ward
Presenting Partners
Kenneth S Allen Library Endowment Fund
BNY Mellon Wealth Management
OCLC
University of Washington Press
2008
Keynote Speaker
Sherman Alexie
Authors
Tony Angell
Kit Bakke
James A. Banks
& Cherry McGee Banks
Lance Bennett
William Dietrich
Paul Dorpat
and Jean Sherrard
Tess Gallagher
Jack Hamann
Maria Headley
Susan Jeffords
Ruth Kirk
David Laskin
Robert Schenkkan
Alice Shorett
Shawn Wong
Robin Wright
Presenting Partners
BNY Mellon Wealth Management
OCLC
UW College of Arts and Sciences
University of Washington Press
2007
Keynote Speaker
Pepper Schwartz
Authors
Greg Bear
Michael Biggins
Mark Jenkins
Laura Kastner
Joel Migdal
David Montgomery
Jeffrey Ochsner
Nancy Pearl
Maya Sonenberg
Indu Sundaresan
Woodruff “Woody” Sullivan III
Solveig Torvik
David Wagoner
2006
Keynote Speaker
Charles Johnson
Authors
Dennis Andersen
Gerald Baldasty
Linda Bierds
David Bosworth
William Calvin
Ivan Doig
Valerie Easton
Patricia Kuhl
Margaret Levi
Eric Liu
Colleen J. McElroy
Andrew Meltzoff
Ronald Moore
David Shields
2011
Erik Larson, keynote speaker
Stephanie Coontz
David Domke
Charlotte Coté
Ellen Forney
Michael Gruber
Gordon Hempton
Michael Honey
David Horsey
Hanson Hosein
Stephanie Kallos
Linda Johns
Charles P. LeWarne
Lawrence Matsuda
Lorraine McConaghy
Frances McCue
Robin Chapman Stacey
2012
Rebecca Brown, keynote speaker
Maid Adams, Jean Durining, Joan Singler, and Bettylou Valentine
Kurt Armbruster
David Barash
Paula Becker and Alan Stein
Misha Berson
John M. Findlay and Bruce Hevly
Kathleen Flenniken
Molly Gloss
John Laursen
Stephen Manes
Karl Marlantes
Donna Miscolta
Richard Morrill
Jennie Shortridge


