Thank you so much for an amazing night! 

​Photo Gallery Part 1: CLICK HERE
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Photo Gallery Part 2: CLICK HERE

​For sponsorships and salon dining with our honored Laureates: CLICK HERE

​​          Set for Friday, March 8, 2019 in the Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library, Library Laureates 2019 builds on its time-honored tradition of intimate salon dining and conversation with brilliant writers, with a new open-space experience in the 6th floor Laureate Gallery designed by and for our next generation of young influencers and library supporters. We expect more than 400 guests to participate as sponsors in laureate salons and as ticket buyers in the Laureate Gallery. 

          Thirty-eight brilliant authors will grace our laureate salons and the gallery: creative writers, poets, screenwriters and playwrights who embody the Library’s values of inclusion, access, and free expression. 

          Tables will be distributed throughout the Library in intimate corner rooms of six to eight tables of ten (the Hormel Center, the Wallace Stegner Environmental Center, African American Center, etc). At each table an honored Laureate will engage guests in discourse about their latest work, creative process and evolution as a writer. Sponsorships range from $25,000 to $500. 
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​   Responding to the demand to share the iconic Library Laureates experience with the city’s emerging next wave of young talent and influence, we are launching the first Laureate Gallery Next Gen on the 6th floor Skylight Gallery on the same night. This future-forward literary event will feature three Laureates in a non-seated, performative setting with live music and dancing to follow. Admission to Laureate Gallery is a ticketed price of $200 (early bird tickets available now!

​          The goal for Library Laureates 2019 is to raise $500,000, with net proceeds going to annual support for San Francisco Public Library programs and resources. Friends has a fifty-six year history of keeping the future of the Library in focus to ensure responsive services to the community. Residents of all ages are turning to our Library for responsive 21st century programs and services, especially as the cost of meeting basic needs, raising a family and acquiring the skills to thrive in the technology-driven economy grows. The public-private partnership between Friends, you and the Library makes the exceptional difference in neighborhoods throughout the city. ​

​Amy Freed, Playwright, 
2019 Laureate  

 Jade Chang, Author, 
2019 Laureate 

​T. J. Stiles, Biographer,
2019 Laureate  

Our 2019 Laureates

Laureate Bios

Jesse Andrews, MUNMUN, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Judy Bebelaar & Ron Cabral, And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of People's Temple from High School to Jonestown
Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do
Elaine Castillo, America is Not the Heart
May-lee Chai, Useful Phrases for Immigrants
Jade Chang, The Wangs vs. the World
Jeff Chang, We Gon'Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Dave Eggers, The Monk of Mokha, Her Right Foot
Tongo Eisen-Martin, Heaven Is All Goodbyes: Pocket Poets
Amy Freed, Playwright, Shrew!, Freedomland
Marcus Gardley, Playwright, Black Odyssey
James W. Haas, The San Francisco Civic Center
Mary Ellen Hannibal, Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and
Hope in an Age of Extinction
Dan Hoyle, Border People
Tyehimba Jess, Olio
Laleh Khadivi, A Good Country
Rachel Khong, Goodbye, Vitamin
R.O. Kwon, The Incendiaries
Samin Nosrat & Wendy MacNaughton, Salt Fat Acid Heat
Merrill Markoe & Megan Koester, The Indignities of Being a Woman
Joshua Mohr, Sirens
Nayomi Munaweera, What Lies Between Us
Achy Obejas, The Tower of the Antilles
Tommy Orange, There There
Anne Raeff, Winter Kept Us Warm
Richard Rhodes, Energy: A Human History
Caitlin Rosenthal, Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management
Shanthi Sekaran, Lucky Boy
Randy Shaw, Generation Priced Out
Kim Shuck, Clouds Running In
Dashka Slater, The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the
​Crime That Changed Their Lives
T.J. Stiles, Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
Danielle Teller, All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of
Cinderella’s Stepmother
Esme Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Kathy Wang, Family Trust
Dr. Mary J. Wardell Ghirarduzzi, Twice as Good:
The Leadership and Power of Women of Color

Sponsor Information PDF

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For more information, or to talk to us directly, please contact Craig Palmer at 415-477-5235; E-mail: craig.palmer@friendssfpl.org​