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Tickets On Sale Now! Presenter: Kentucky Author Forum Pricing: Event $17 Dinner and Event $100 Program Information: Elizabeth Gilbert author of Eat, Pray, Love and the soon-to-be-reissued novel, Stern Men Elizabeth Gilbert's recent memoir Eat, Pray, Love has been in the top tier of the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list since 2006. Her debut novel, Stern Men, will be reissued by Penguin Books in February 2009. Gilbert’s skill as a writer traverses many genres. She has written for magazines as varied as GQ, The New York Times, SPIN, and Travel & Leisure. Esquire published her short story, Pilgrims, in 1993, under the headline “The Debut of an American Writer”. She was the first unpublished short story writer to debut in Esquire since Norman Mailer. Her short story collection, also titled Pilgrims, received a Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She adapted her GQ article on Eustace Conway into a biography of the naturalist, The Last American Man, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in non-fiction. Elizabeth Gilbert appears on the list of “The 2008 TIME 100: The World’s Most Influential People”. The film rights to Eat, Pray, Love have been sold to Paramount, and production is to begin soon, with Julia Roberts to star. Interviewer: ZZ Packer ZZ Packer is an African-American author, notable for her works of short fiction. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and Louisville, Kentucky. She is a 1990 graduate of Seneca High School, in Louisville, KY. Packer attended Yale University, where she received a B.A in 1994. Her graduate work included an M.A. at Johns Hopkins University in 1995 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop of the University of Iowa in 1999. She was named a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. Shortly thereafter, she entered the national literary scene with a high-profile appearance in the Debut Fiction issue of The New Yorker (2000). Her short story in the issue became the title story in her collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Riverhead Books, 2003), which was published to considerable acclaim. Ticketing Information: Reserved Seating Running Time: 5:00 PM - Carmichael's Book Sale - Wine & Cheese provided by Brown-Forman 6:00 PM - Interview in the Bomhard Theater 7:00 PM - Q & A - Book signing on stage A $17 ticket includes the above three events. 8:15 PM - Dinner in honor of the Author in the Mary Anderson Room at The Kentucky Center. A $100 package ticket includes the above three events plus dinner with author & interviewer Age Appropriate: All Ages Access Services: Accessible Seating Assistive Listening Service
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