Tickets Available for Friends of Ridgewood Library's Author Luncheon March 11

Press release:

Best-selling author Christina Baker Kline will be the guest speaker of the Ridgewood’s Library’s 26th annual Author Luncheon on Wednesday, March 11 at Seasons in Washington Township from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Kline, who will speak and sign copies of her novel, is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Orphan Train, which is about a young Irish immigrant who, as a child, is sent away from New York on a train that regularly transported orphaned and abandoned children from the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest. Moving between contemporary Maine and Depression-era Minnesota, The Orphan Train is a powerful tale of upheaval and resilience.

Kline is the latest in an impressive array of literary luminaries invited to speak at the annual Author Luncheon. Previous authors include Meg Wolitzer (2014), Kathleen Grissom (2013), Alexander McCall Smith, Elizabeth Strout, Lisa See, Sue Monk Kidd, Khaled Hosseini and Ridgewood’s own Harlan Coben.

Proceeds from the event, which includes a silent auction, will benefit the Ridgewood Public Library. Seating is limited and advance reservations are required. Reservation forms are available at the Ridgewood Public Library or by visiting the library’s website at www.ridgewoodlibrary.org. Tickets are $65 (Friends Member) and $70 (non-member).

For more information, call the Ridgewood Library at 201-670-5600 x 180 or email annualauthorluncheon@ridgewoodlibrary.org.

The mission of the Friends is to stimulate community awareness and use of the Ridgewood Library and to support the Library in developing its collections, its reference and research facilities and its programs.To this end, we shall attempt to raise funds for various programs outside the normal Library budget, purchase books and media, encourage charitable gifts and to enhance public support for the Library’s programs.

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