Special Events
Special Events- What's Included With Your Registration
Several Special Events will occur during the Midwinter Meeting in Boston and they are included with a full registration.
These events include:
ALA/ERT Exhibits Ribbon Cutting and Opening Reception
Exhibits will open on Friday, January 15, 2010 with a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at 5:15 pm preceding the All-Conference Reception on the exhibit floor from 5:30 -7:30 pm.
ALA/ERT Author Forum-From Book to Big Screen
Friday, January 15, 2010, 4:00 -5:15 pm
Don't miss an exciting panel of authors who will talk about their experiences and the process of seeing their best-selling books become movies.
Eric Van Lustbader is the author of many bestselling thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers The Testament and The Ninja. During his thirty-odd year writing career, Van Lustbader has written over thirty novels, novellas and short-stories. He has also been chosen by Robert Ludlum's estate to continue the Jason Bourne series. His Jason Bourne novels include The Bourne Legacy and The Bourne Deception. He and his wife live in New York City and the South Fork of Long Island. His first Jack McClure book, First Daughter, was also a New York Times bestseller. His latest, Last Snow, comes out from Forge in February 2010.
Van Lustbader was born, raised and educated in Greenwich Village, New York. He is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and Columbia College with a degree in Sociology, proof that from an early age he loved the science of how people react to one another. Before turning to writing full-time, he taught in the NYC Public School System, and spent ten years in the rock music business, where he formed his own company, produced records, worked for Elektra Records and CBS Records, and wrote free-lance. Along the way, he became friends with such stars as John Lennon, Elton John, Bryan Ferry, Robert Fripp and many others.
Sponsored by Forge
Chuck Hogan is the author of several acclaimed novels, including The Standoff and Prince of Thieves. Prince of Thieves won the 2005 Hammett Award and was called one of the ten best novels of the year by Stephen King. He is the co-author, with Guillermo del Toro, of the New York Times bestseller The Strain. Prince of Thieves will soon be a major motion picture.
Sponsored by Simon and Schuster
Tracy Chevalier is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels, including Girl With A Pearl Earring and Burning Bright. Chevalier was born in 1962 and grew up in Washington, DC. She has a BA in English from Oberlin College, Ohio and an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. Chevalier has lived in London for over 20 years, and is married, with one son. She was a reference book editor for several years before turning to writing full-time. Her second novel, Girl With A Pearl Earring, won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award. It has sold almost 4 million copies worldwide and was made into a film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson.
Sponsored by Penguin
Julie Powell, thrust herself from obscurity (and an uninspiring temp job) to cyber-celebrityhood when, in 2002, she embarked on an ambitious yearlong cooking (and blogging) expedition through all 524 recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She detailed the experience in her 2005 New York Times bestselling memoir, Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, which was adapted into a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in August 2009.
Powell has made appearances on national television shows from ABC's Good Morning America and CBS's The Early Show to The Martha Stewart Show and Food Network's Iron Chef America, and her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers including Bon Appetit, Food and Wine, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times, the Washington Post, and more. She is a two-time James Beard Award winner, has been awarded an honorary degree from Le Cordon Bleu in
Sponsored by Little, Brown and Company
Sunrise Speaker Series
Saturday and Sunday, January 16-17, 2010, 8:00 - 9:00 am
Monday, January 18, 2010, 9:00 -10:00 am- *New Time!!
Saturday, January 16, 2010, 8:00 - 9:00 am
featuring Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert was born in Connecticut, attended college in New York City and spent the years after college traveling around the country and the world working odd jobs, writing short stories and essentially creating what she has referred to as her own MFA program.
She broke onto the literary scene in 1993 when one of her short stories was pulled from the slush pile at Esquire magazine and published under the heading "The Debut of an American Writer."
Her first book, a collection of short stories called Pilgrims, was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second book, Stern Men, a novel about lobster fishing territory wars off the coast of Maine, was also a New York Times Notable Book. The Last American Man, her biography of Eustace Conway, an eclectic modern day woodsman, was a finalist in 2002 for both The National Book Award and The National Book Critic's Circle Award.
Her most recent book, a New York Times number one bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love, is about the year she spent traveling the world alone after a difficult divorce. It was named one of the 100 most notable books of 2006. In 2008, Gilbert was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time Magazine. Much of her writing has been optioned by Hollywood. Her memoir about her bartending years became the Disney movie, "Coyote Ugly." Her new book, Committed A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, will be published January 2010.
Sponsored by Penguin
Sunday, January 17, 2010, 8:00- 9:00 am
featuring Atul Gawande, M.D.
Join us on Sunday morning to hear Atul Gawande, writer and surgeon, talk about his most recent book, the New York Times best seller, Better, A Surgeon's Notes on Performance. His previous book, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2002.
Gawande is a staff member of the Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the New Yorker magazine. He served as a senior health policy advisor in the Clinton presidential campaign and White House from 1992 to 1993. He is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Research Director for the BWH Center for Surgery and Public Health. He is the director of the World Health Organization's Global Challenge for Safer Surgical Care. In 2006, he received the MacArthur Award for his research and writing.
Gawande has written a new book, The Checklist Manifesto (Metropolitan Books), due to be released January 2010.
Sponsored by Macmillan
* Note this new time!
Monday, January 18, 2010, 9:00- 10:00 am
featuring Adriana Trigiani
Adriana Trigiani is an award-winning playwright, television writer and documentary filmmaker.The author of the bestselling Big Stone Gap series and the New York Times bestselling novels Lucia, Lucia, The Queen of the Big Time, Rococo, and, most recently, Very Valentine, has been published in 33 countries around the world. Her next book, Brava Valentine, which is the sequel to Very Valentine, will debut in February 2010. Trigiani has written the screenplay for the film version of Big Stone Gap, which she will also direct, and Viola in Reel Life, the first title in her young adult series, which debuted in September. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
Sponsored by HarperCollins
Eleventh Annual Arthur Curley Memorial Lecture
Saturday, January 16, 2010, 1:30- 3:00 pm
Featuring Al Gore
Al Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the
Mr. Gore is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, An Inconvenient Truth and The Assault on Reason and is the subject of an Academy Award winning documentary. He is widely considered to be one of the world's foremost authorities on the climate crisis. Ever since he opened the world's eyes to the perilous situation the earth is in with his groundbreaking An Inconvenient Truth, Mr. Gore has been the definitive name associated with the climate crisis. In November 2009, Rodale the original publishers of An Inconvenient Truth, along with Puffin Books and Viking Children's Books (divisions of Penguin Young Readers Group) will simultaneously release an adult version, and young readers editions in paperback and hardcover respectively, of his follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth, Our Choices: How We Can Solve the Climate Crisis, which further explores the situation and its causes, and what we can do to alter the effects moving forward. With his follow up book, former Vice President Al Gore takes a deeper look at the climate crisis and what we need to do in order to save the earth from impending doom. We believe that this platform will get librarians talking and more importantly involved, as well as will appeal to today's socially conscious youth as we take an even closer look at our planet in peril.
Mr. Gore was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental work. Al Gore lives in
Arthur Curley served as
Sponsored by Penguin Young Readers Group
Spotlight on Adult Literature
Sponsored by ALTAFF and ALA Conference Services
Saturday, January 16, 2010, 2:00- 4:00 pm
Join adult authors on the exhibit floor for book signings and free galleys.
ALA President's Program
Sunday, January 17, 2010, 3:30- 5:30 pm
featuring Yohannes Gebregeorgis
Literacy in Ethiopia: The Key to Development and Informed Citizenship
Literacy and the love of reading should start with children. Yohannes Gebregeorgis, Founder and Executive Director of Ethiopia Reads, focuses on the literacy work of his organization that encourages a love of reading through establishing children's and youth libraries in Ethiopia, free distribution of books to children, and multilingual publishing. Mr.Gebregeorgis was selected to be one of CNN's Top 10 Heroes in 2008 for his work in establishing children's libraries in Ethiopia.
Technology Showcase
Monday, January 18, 2010, 10:00 am- 1:15 pm
The showcase will consist of free concurrent programs on the exhibit floor featuring new products and demonstrations.
Youth Media Awards
Monday, January 18, 2010, 7:30- 9:00 am
Each year the American Library Association (ALA) honors books and media for children and teens. Recognized worldwide for the high quality they represent, the ALA Youth Media Awards, including but not limited to the prestigious Caldecott, Coretta Scott King Book Awards, Newbery and Printz awards, guide parents, educators, librarians and others in selecting the best materials for youth. Selected by committees composed of librarians and other literature and media experts, the awards also encourage original and creative work in the field of children's and young adult literature and media. Doors open at 7:30 a.m.
Discussion Groups
Over 200 discussion groups featuring a variety of speakers will be held throughout the Midwinter Meeting.
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