Library Gala set
Submitted photoAuhor Ann Hood will attend the annual Library Gala in South Brunswick on Sept. 20.
Ann Hood, best-selling author of "An Italian Wife," will attend an Italian-themed dinner Saturday, Sept. 20, after hours at the South Brunswick Public Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction.
Hors d’oeuvres begin 6:30 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m.
To purchase tickets, be a sponsor, or buy an ad in the program book, visit www.sbpl.info/foundation. Tickets also available for purchase at the Library. Contact: 732-329-4000×7287 or e-mail [email protected]. Tickets are $65 per person and include hors d’oeuvres, buffet dinner, beverages, dessert, and book signed by author.
Ms. Hood is the author of 15 books, as well as numerous essays and short stories. Her writing has won her a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction and two Pushcart Prizes.
Her bestsellers include "The Knitting Circle" and "Obituary Writer." The memoir "Comfort: A Journey Through Grief " was named one of the top 10 nonfiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice.
She is a faculty member at The New School in New York City and lives in Providence, R.I.
