Rent a nationally-acclaimed author for a private evening with your book club or small group, by raising $1,000 to benefit 826 Boston’s free writing programs for students ages 6 to 18.
About Our Featured Authors
Julia Glass is the author of two novels—
Three Junes, winner of the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction, and
The Whole World Over—as well as
I See You Everywhere, a collection of tightly linked stories. Julia lives with her two sons and their father in Marblehead, MA.
Tom Perrotta is a novelist and Oscar-nominated screenwriter.
The Abstinence Teacher is the story of a conservative suburban town clash with the high school sexual education teacher. Tom lives with his wife and two children in Belmont, MA.
Donald Hall was appointed United States Poet Laureate in June 2006.
Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) is Hall’s record of the making of a poet. He has published over thirty books of poetry and prose including National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry winner
The One Day (1989).
Jim Shepard won the 2005 Massachusetts Book Award for
Project X, a novel about two misfit eighth graders who plan a Columbine-style massacre. His 2007 collection of short stories,
Like You’d Understand, Anyway, was nominated for the National Book Award, and won the Story Prize. He currently teaches at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.
To schedule your event and begin towards fundraising $1,000, download an 'Author Request Form'
here and return it
By email to:
Ryan@826boston.org
By mail to:
826 Boston
3035 Washington Street
Roxbury, MA 02119
In order for your event to take place, 826 Boston must receive a check for at least $1,000 two weeks prior to your scheduled event.
Program Sponsor: Harvard Book Store
Not part of a book club? Enlist your bookish neighbors, friends and family to help support Boston’s young writers, and register your book club with Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, MA. Registered book club members will receive a 20% discount on book club purchases at Harvard Book Store.
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