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October 17 Carl Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner Honors Don DeLillo, Walter Isaacson and Nami Mun
The Chicago Public Library Foundation and the Chicago Public Library are proud to announce that National Book Award-winning author Don DeLillo (White Noise, Underworld) and bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson (Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and Universe) will be honored at the annual Carl Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner, Wednesday, October 17 at The Forum (725 W. Roosevelt Road) on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Whiting Award and Pushcart Prize winner Nami Mun (Miles from Nowhere) will receive the 21st Century Award honoring significant recent achievement by a Chicago-area writer.
The celebratory evening, co-chaired by Foundation Director Trisha Rooney Alden, President of R4 Services, and Michael Sacks, CEO of Grosvenor Capital Management, L.P., and produced by Foundation Director Donna LaPietra, begins with a cocktail reception at 6 p.m. followed by an elegant dinner at 6:45 p.m, culminating with the awards program and on-stage conversation with DeLillo and Isaacson.
To highlight Chicago’s vibrant, diverse literary community, a prominent writer with ties to the city will be seated at each table and engage guests from Chicago’s business, civic and cultural communities in lively and thought-provoking conversation.
This evening is the major fundraising event of the Chicago Public Library Foundation, and proceeds support innovative Library programs including One Book, One Chicago, the Family Summer Reading Program, Teachers in the Library, CyberNavigator computer tutors and innovative teen and early learning initiatives.
Sponsorship packages are available at the $50,000, $25,000, $15,000 and $10,000 levels. Individual tickets are $1,000 and $2,500. Reservations are strictly limited. For information or to purchase tickets, tables or sponsorships, contact Carolyn Branton at (312) 201-9830 x 25 or email cbranton@cplfoundation.org.
BMO Harris Bank is the Presenting Sponsor of the Carl Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner.
