Katonah Museum to Hold Literary Luncheon

KATONAH—Writers Ben Cheever, Sue Miller and Elizabeth Berg will be the speakers at the Katonah Museum of Art's Eleventh Annual Literary Lunch on April 19. All three noted novelists will speak about the creative process and sign their books.  

The annual event will feature a reception with the authors, and lunch and an author program, and then a book signing. The lunch, to be held at Abigail Kirsch at Tappan Hill, is usually sold out in advance, but tickets are still available.

Both Miller and Berg have new novels coming out in April. Miller will be publishing The Lake Shore Limited and Berg will be publishing The Last Time I Saw You.

Miller's previous books include The Senator's Wife, Lost in the Forest, The World Below, While I Was Gone (an Oprah's Book Club selection), The Distinguished Guest; The Good Mother, the story collection Inventing the Abbotts, and the memoir The Story of My Father.  Both The Good Mother and Inventing the Abbotts were made into movies.

Berg is the author of Open House (an Oprah's Book Club selection), Durable Goods, Joy School, Talk Before Sleep, The Year of Pleasures, The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted, and Dream When You're Feeling Blue.

Cheever will moderate the conversation. He is the author of four novels (The Plagiarist, The Partisan, Famous After Death, The Good Nanny), and two works of non-fiction (Selling Ben Cheever and Strides). He edited The Letters of John Cheever. His most recent book is a collaboration with illustrator, Tim Grajek, for a children's book called The First Dog. 

Tickets for the Literary Lunch are $150 for the author reception, program, and luncheon. Tickets for the program and luncheon are $90 for museum members $105 for non-members. Space is limited and reservations are required by April 9. 

For more information and to make reservations call 914-232-9555 x 2978.

The Katonah Museum of Art is, along with Ridgefield's Aldrich Museum, part of the Fairfield/Westchester Museum Alliance, which offers free same-day admission to all member museums after paying admission to one of them, and members of one museum always enter all others for free. (Online information says the alliance only went through 2009, but a phone call to the Aldrich revealed it remains valid.)