Author Talk with Kate Betts at Cellar Gate Wine Market

Kate Betts, author of My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

(Spiegel & Grau $27.00, due May 12)

Tuesday May 19 at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are $45 and include the book, a glass of wine and light appetizers

Register at Lake Forest Book Store at 847-234-4420

Join Lake Forest Book Store as we welcome Time contributing editor Kate Betts for a great night at Cellar Gate Wine Market

Kate Betts has been covering the world of style for twenty-five years, first as a reporter in the Paris bureau of “Women’s Wear Daily” and later as an editor at “Vogue, “”Harper’s Bazaar, “ and “Time” magazine. The youngest person ever to serve as editor in chief of “Harper’s Bazaar, “ she is also the author of the critically acclaimed book “Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style.” Betts lives in New York City with her husband, the writer Chip Brown, and their two children.

One woman’s passionate pursuit of fashion in the City of Light. When Betts (Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style, 2011) went to Paris as a high school graduate in 1982, she dreamed of returning to the city to live. After graduating from Princeton four years later, she fulfilled her dream. She wanted to be a foreign correspondent, writing articles and news stories on the important events happening around her, but she quickly became immersed in Paris’ dynamic world of fashion. In this lighthearted, appealing memoir, Betts takes readers back in time to when she was a young woman, still searching for her identity, a tribe, or family of her own choosing, and a place to call home. She intermingles memories of life in her little flat in Paris, her French girlfriends, and long weekends with her lover with the rapid-paced world of writing about French haute couture. - Kirkus Reviews

Event date: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - 6:30pm Event address: Cellar Gate Wine Market 524 Sheridan Road Highwood, IL 60040