FOL Announces 2019 Book & Author Luncheon Speakers

The Friends of the Port Washington Public Library this year will celebrate the 50th Golden Anniversary of its signature Annual Book & Author Luncheon on Friday May 10 at the North Hills Country Club in Manhasset. The FOL proudly announces that the two outstanding featured authors will be Meg Wolitzer and Anthony Tommasini.

Award-winning novelist and LI native Wolitzer will speak on her best-seller The Female Persuasion, an absorbing look at female power and self-determination, which was recently selected as the 2019 Long Island Reads pick. Tommasini, the Chief Classical Music Critic for The New York Times, will discuss his book The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide, a master class in what greatness means in music. Port’s own best-selling novelist Susan Isaacs returns as Program Moderator.

Tickets are $85 per person. Reservation brochures will be available starting April 1 in the library and online at www.pwpl.org/fol. For information email fol@pwpl.org. The event will include special features highlighting the luncheon’s illustrious 50-year history. Note that a $1,000 Americana Manhasset gift certificate will be the raffle Grand Prize at the luncheon.

The FOL welcomes individual and corporate luncheon sponsors beginning at $250. A special Anniversary Sponsor category ($7,500) has been added that will be reserved for a single sponsor who will receive special recognition and a full table of 12 complimentary seats. To learn about the benefits of sponsorship—which include bypassing first-come, first-served ticketing to this sellout event—please contact board members Margaret DeSiervo at 516-883-2722 or margaretdesiervo@yahoo.com, or Nancy Wright at 516-883-8418 or nprw@aol.com. Sponsors please commit by April 1 in order to guarantee seating.