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MorseLife Literary Society 2012 Season To Offer Look Into This Year’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel, Along With The First Wife of Ernest Hemingway in Paris and the U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany
West Palm Beach, FL (October 31, 2011) - MorseLife is pleased to announce the 2012 season of the MorseLife Literary Society, its series of presentations with celebrated authors of award-winning and acclaimed books, beginning in January with this year’s Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jennifer Egan.
According to Mary Alice Pappas, Senior Vice President of MorseLife Foundation and the originator of the MorseLife Literary Society, the cost for the series is $400 per person, which includes breakfast, the books and valet parking. “In our fourth season, we are delighted to include some of the most talked-about authors of the year, including recent Pulitzer Prize-winning Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit From the Goon Squad; Paula McLain, author of a wonderful historical work about Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, The Paris Wife; and Erik Larson, author of our first non-fiction presentation, In the Garden of Beasts,” she said. “In this, our fourth year, we are privileged to continue to host some of this world’s most accomplished contemporary authors to stimulate and entertain our participants.”
The 2012 MorseLife Literary Society begins on Thursday, January 19th with Jennifer Egan, and continues with authors in February and March. All events will be held at The Colony Pavilion, 155 Hammon Avenue in Palm Beach with registration at 8:45 am and breakfast at 9:00 am.
The schedule is as follows:
Jennifer Egan, author of a Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan, Author
Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, this sprawling novel in 13 chapters connects the stories over 40 years of associates and friends of a successful music executive and aging punk rocker in their path to self-destruction. In her New York Times review, Cathleen Schine describes the novel as a “moving and humanistic saga…an enormous nineteenth century-style epic brilliantly disguised as ironic postmodern pastiche.” The Pulitzer Prize Board noted that the novel is an “inventive investigation of growing up and growing older in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.” The novel will be soon adapted into a series for HBO.
Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife
Paula McClain, Author
The Paris Wife is the much talked about third novel of poet and author Paula McLain. It is a thoughtfully researched story about the first wife of Ernest Hemingway, Hadley Richardson, who struggled over their five year marriage to find her place in the intoxicating and tumultuous world of the Paris of the 1920s. In a Seattle Times review, The Paris Wife was called an “Absorbing, illuminating book…giving us an intimate view of a sympathetic and perceptive woman, the striving writer she married, the glittering and wounding Paris circle they were part of, and the challenges of trying to preserve love and domesticity in the face of rising celebrity and ruthless ambition.” Ms. McLain is the author of two collections of poetry, as well as a memoir, Like Family, and a first novel, A Ticket to Ride.
Erik Larson, author of In the Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson, Author
The newest nonfiction work by the author of three New York Times best sellers, In the Garden of Beasts, is a portrait of Berlin during the early time of Hitler’s reign. It is brought to life by William E. Dodd, American’s first ambassador to that regime and his carefree daughter Martha -- both players in a terrifying story of Hitler’s rise to power, which builds to a stunning climax. In its New York Times review, the book was cited as “by far his best and most exhilarating work of novelistic history….a transportingly true story.” Mr. Larson is the author of The Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck and Isaac’s Storm and has written for The Atlantic, Harper’s, The New Yorker and other publications.
For more information, please call (561) 209-6103, or email MorseLife at cindyo@morselife.org. Space is limited.
MorseLife is a nationally-recognized provider of health care and residential services for seniors and their families in Palm Beach County. A charitable, not-for-profit organization, its programs include short term rehabilitation, long term care, independent and assisted living, home care, adult day center, meals-on-wheels, and research and education. Founded in 1983, MorseLife has built a reputation and tradition of caring for seniors with excellence, dignity and compassion -- honoring senior living -- now and forever.