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Nashville Public Library Literary Award

The foundation is pleased to announce that it will honor
John Irving
with the 2008
Nashville Public Library
Literary Award
November 7-8, 2008.

2008 Literary Award Gala cO-Chairs

Elizabeth Fox and Kay Simmons

Patrons Party
Friday, November 7  at  6:30 p.m. 
$500 per person/$1,000 per couple

Public Lecture
Saturday, November 8 at 10 a.m.
  Free to the Public 

Literary Award Gala
 Saturday, November 8 at 6:30 p.m.
$500 per person/$1,000 per couple
black-tie

The Nashville Public Library Literary Award was first given in 2004 to recognize distinguished authors and other individuals for their contributions to the world of books and reading. Proceeds from the Gala fund the multiple endeavors of the Library Foundation, including Bringing Books to Life, T.O.T.A.L. and the Summer Concert Series.

For information about the Nashville Public Library Literary Award Gala, please email the Nashville Public Library Foundation or call Katy Enterline at 615-862-5814.
     Grand Reading Room
     Literary Award Gala

The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species.

-Carl Sagan

photo by Peyton Hoge
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