The 95th Luncheon
is being held on Monday, October
21, 2019
Ticket sales begin
online at 12 a.m. Tuesday,
September 3, 2019
at www.bookandauthor.org and
by phone at 9 a.m. at
586-685-5750x102
Tickets $40
Authors will be
available to sign purchased books
after the luncheon. Book sales
support grants. Please purchase
your books at the luncheon! There
will be a limited number of books
for sale.
11:00 am - Book Sale Room
Opens
11:45 am - Luncheon Doors Open
12:00 pm - Lunch is Served
1:00 pm - Authors Begin to
Speak
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Deborah Blum
Official
Website:
www.deborahblum.com
Deborah Blum, Director
of the Knight Science Journalism
program at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, is the
Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of two best-selling
books, including “The Poisoner's
Handbook” and her newest, “The
Poison Squad.” The latter is
the dramatic true story of how
food was made safe in the United
States and the heroes, led by
Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley,
who fought for change at the
end of the 19th
Century when food was often
dangerous to eat and even
lethal. Deborah has also been a
columnist for The New York Times
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Bridgett Davis
Official
Website:
https://bridgettdavis.com
Bridgett
Davis is the
author of “The
World According to Fannie
Davis: My Mother’s Life in
the Detroit Numbers,” an
unusual memoir of how
low-stakes gambling helped
fuel -- and fund -- racial
justice work in Detroit.
While it tells how her
mother ran a successful
illegal numbers operation
when Bridgett was young, it
is also about the African
American strivers of
Detroit, the evolution of
her own family history and a
tale of female empowerment
as well as a love letter to
her mother. Born and raised
in Detroit, Bridgett is also
the author of two novels,
“Into the Go-Slow” and
“Shifting Through Neutral.”
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Susan Isaacs
Official
Website:
https://www.susanisaacs.com
Susan Isaacs is
the best-selling author of 14
novels, including
“Compromising Positions,”
“Shining Through,” “After All
These Years,” and “As Husbands
Go.” Her new novel, “Takes One
to Know One,” is a twisty
mystery thriller. It features
a retired FBI agent turned
Long Island housewife who taps
into her investigative past
when she begins to suspect
that her neighbor is harboring
criminal secrets. Susan is a
former editor of Seventeen, a
freelance political
speechwriter, chairman of the
board of Poets & Writers
and a past president of
Mystery Writers of America.
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James Poniewozik
Official
Website:
James
Poniewozik, the chief
television critic of the New
York Times, is the author of
"Audience of One: Donald
Trump, Television and the
Fracturing of America." His
eye-opening book traces the
history of TV and mass media
from the simpler times of the
1980s to its powerful
worldwide presence today, and
tells the almost unbelievable
story of how a "volcanic,
anti-hero" billionaire merged
with the medium to become our
45th president. Originally
from Monroe, James attended
the University of Michigan.
He went on to write about TV
for Time magazine for 16 years
and has contributed to
publications like Fortune,
Salon and Rolling Stone.
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DIRECTIONS
The luncheon will be held at the
Burton Manor, located at:
27777 Schoolcraft
Road
Livonia, MI, 48150
(between Middlebelt & Inkster
off I-96)
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