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Abilities United Authors' Luncheon
Volunteer Opportunities Are Available! Please join us at one of the important literary events in Northern California. The 17th
Annual Abilities United Authors' Luncheon 10:30 am - 3 pm The luncheon will feature four acclaimed authors who will read from their books, share stories about their writing experiences, and offer insight into the inspiration behind their characters. Since it began in 1991, each year the Abilities United Authors' Luncheon has drawn more than 650 guests who have been entertained by some of the world's most renowned authors. Individual seats are $125 Sponsor tables of ten provide you with preferred seating and promotional benefits at the following levels:
If you have any questions or would like to purchase a ticket for this year's event please call (650) 618-3328 or e-mail events. Book sales benefit Abilities United and are managed by Books Inc. Abilities United also benefits from any purchase you make on the Books Inc. website when you buy your books online through the Books Inc. logo below
2008 Author Information and Bios
Sponsors of the 17th Annual Abilities United Authors' Luncheon:
The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders, It's Snowing It's Snowing, It's Christmas Jack Prelutsky is the first U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate and writes wonderfully wacky poems that children find irresistable. Prelutsky is the author of more than 50 poetry collections including Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep (1976), The Mean Old Mean Hyena (1978), and Something BIG Has Been Here (1990). He has also compiled numerous children's anthologies comprising poems of others. He currently lives in Washington State with his wife, Carolyn. He met a poet named Espiritu Salamanca in 1997 and they now work together in writing poems and stories for both children and adults. In 2006, the Poetry Foundation named Prelutsky the inaugural winner of the Children’s Poet Laureate award. .
Buy her books at Books Inc. Margot Livesey grew up in a boys’ private school in the Scottish Highlands where her father taught, and her mother, Eva, was the school nurse. After taking a B.A. in English and philosophy at the University of York in England she spent most of her twenties working in shops and restaurants and learning to write. Her first book, a collection of stories called Learning By Heart, was published by Penguin Canada in 1986. Since then Margot has published six novels: Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona and The House on Fortune Street (May 2008).
She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the N.E.A., the Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. Margot is currently a distinguished writer in residence at Emerson College and the John F. and Dorothy H. Magee writer in residence at Bowdoin College. She lives with her husband, a painter, in Cambridge, MA, and goes back to London and Scotland whenever she can. Alice Sebold says, “Every novel of Margot Livesey’s is, for her readers, a joyous discovery. Her work radiates with compassion and intelligence and always, deliciously, mystery.”
Abilities United Aquathon
Volunteer Opportunities Are Available!
Abilities United Aquathon 650) 618-3326, or email The event consists of a friendly swim competition staged by more than 50 Silicon Valley companies such as Siemens Acuson, Cisco Systems, eBay, Google, Hyperion, Intel, Intuit, Northrup Grumman, Scios, SRI, and YMCA. The event is expected to draw over 600 people. The Abilities United Aquathon is a great team building event so if you would like to enjoy a fun filled day of competition for a good cause, call (650) 618-3326, or email.
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