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Literacy Partners
Evening of Readings Gala |
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Mark Jackson, Literacy Partners executive director Susan McLean, Mary Karr, Jacqueline Weld Drake, honoree Robert Bradford, event co-chair Liz Smith, honoree Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sara Gruen, Norris Church Mailer and Literacy Partners chairman Peter Brown.
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Literacy Partners celebrated its 26th Anniversary with a star-studded “Evening of Readings” Gala on Monday, May 10, 2010 at the Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City. The Gala was once again chaired by celebrated New Yorkers Liz Smith, Arnold Scaasi and Parker Ladd. Literacy Partners, New York’s only accredited adult literacy organization, honor edbest-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford, OBE, and her husband, filmmaker Robert Bradford.
To help celebrate, distinguished writers Sara Gruen (author of Water for Elephants), David Finkel (Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Good Soldiers), Mary Karr (author of two bestsellers, Liar’s Club and Lit) and Norris Church Mailer (author of Windchill Summer and Cheap Diamonds) read from their own works. Joining these acclaimed authors on stage were Literacy Partners adult literacy students, who read their own inspiring essays about their experiences learning to read as adults.
Attendees included: Peter Brown, Mary Higgins Clark, Mrs. John R. Drexel III, Nora Ephron, Mica Ertegun, Dame Celia Lipton Farris, Barbara Goldsmith, Gael Greene, Sharon Hoge, David and Julia Koch, Evelyn and Leonard A. Lauder, Ralph Lauren, Melissa and Chappy Morris, Thomas S. Murphy, James L. and Margo MacNabb Nederlander, James and Charlene Nederlander, Mike Nichols and Diane Sawyer, Nicholas Pileggi, Ingeborg Rennert and Nina Rennert Davidson, Louise and Leonard Riggio, Felix and Elizabeth Rohatyn, Hilary and Wilbur Ross, Lily Safra, Lesley Stahl, Allison Stern, Robert A.M. Stern, Alice and Thomas Tisch, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Suzy and Jack Welch and Mortimer Zuckerman.
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David Finkel, Norris Church Mailer, Sara Gruen, Mary Karr, Joe Armstrong.
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Jane Friedman, Rodman Drake, Jacqueline Weld Drake.
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Cherie Blair, Peter Brown and Liz Smith.
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Lee Eastman, Vanessa Eastman, Jodie Eastman and John Eastman.
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Kathy Lee Gifford, Frank Gifford.
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John Josephson, Carolina Zapf.
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Joni Evans.
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Katharine Raymond, Les Hinton.
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Lesley Stahl.
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Elizabeth Peabody, Joe Armstrong, Norris Church Mailer.
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Yanna Avis, Robert Zimmerman.
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Mary Cross, Susan Magrino Dunning.
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Tommy Tune, Carol Holmes McCarthy.
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Nina Rennert Davidson, Mitchell Davidson.
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Frank Gifford, Mary Higgins Clark.
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NICK HUNT / PatrickMcMullan.com |
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