Sunday, June 22, 2008 4:06 PM

The Authors Guild Annual Dinner
At The Metropolitan Club, NY NY
May 5th 2008

Satirist and author Roger Rosenblatt  hosted a gala fundraising dinner in celebration of writers and writing to benefit the Authors Guild Foundation and the Authors League Fund on Monday, May 5th, at the Metropolitan Club in New York City. This year the Authors Guild honored  literary entrepreneurs Richard Howorth and Louis D. Rubin, Jr. with its Distinguished Service Award presented by Pat Cummings and Roy Blount Jr. 

Well known and admired within the publishing community, both men have played important roles in the development of Southern writers and literature. Mr. Howorth founded one of the nation’s most admired independent bookstores, Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1979.  He has served the American Booksellers Association as both President and board member.  He has also been elected mayor of Oxford.  Mr. Rubin is an editor, novelist, essayist, teacher and publisher who has helped nurture a generation of Southern writers.  After ten years at Hollins College, where he taught several writers who have gone on to literary or scholarly distinction, he joined the University of North Carolina in 1967, where he served as a distinguished member of the English department for twenty-two years.  He also founded Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a highly regarded publisher that showcases Southern writers.

The co-chairs of the evening were authors Sallie Bingham, Judy Blume, Sandra Brown, Mary Higgins Clark, Michael Connelly, Michael Crichton, James Gleick, Barbara Goldsmith, John Grisham, A.E. Hotchner, Garrison Keillor, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, John R. MacArthur, Mary Pope Osborne, R.L. Stine and Jane Stine, Scott Turow and Stuart Woods.
 
 Attendees includeD: James Atlas, Ken Auletta, Philip Berney, Roy Blount Jr., Sandra Brown, Maria Carvainis, Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, Pat Cummings, Liz Darhansoff, Nelson DeMille, James Duffy, Jennifer Egan, Philip Friedman, Jonathan Galassi, Lynn Goldberg, Martin Garbus, Gail Hochman, A.E. Hotchner, Richard Howorth, Susan Isaacs, Erica Jong, Michael Levi, John R. MacArthur, Terry McMillan, Robert K. Massie, J. Robert Moskin, Victor and Anne Navasky, Esther Newberg, Sidney Offit, Mary Pope Osborne, Hannah Pakula, Peter Petre, Samuel Pinkus, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Bert Pogrebin, Douglas Preston, Roger Rosenblatt, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Pat Schroeder, James Stevenson, Nick Taylor, Jeffrey Toobin, Lily Tuck, Scott Turow, Amanda Urban, Anthony and Margo Viscusi and Stuart Woods.

 

The Authors Guild is the largest society of published book authors in the U.S.  Roy Blount Jr. serves as the Guild's president.

The Authors Guild Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting writing as a livelihood and promoting the importance of writing, publishing, free speech and copyright.  Sidney Offit serves as the Foundation's president.

The Authors League Fund provides assistance to professional writers and dramatists who find themselves in financial need because of medical or health related problems, temporary loss of income, or other misfortunes. Pat Cummings serves as the Fund's president.

We at Liberty News Online like to thank Mr Bruce Mason for his kind invite, for more information about the organization feel free to log onto their website at http://www.authorsguild.org

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