Join us for an evening with Garry Marshall — a creative force in Hollywood for more than 50 years. He has excelled as a writer, producer, director, and actor. Among his credits, in TV & Film – Happy Days, Mork & Mindy, and Laverne & Shirley; Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, Beaches, The Other Sister, and The Princess Diaries.
Oscar Hijuelos is the international bestselling author of eight novels, including Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, for which he became the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He visits Live Talks to talk about his memoir, Thoughts Without Cigarettes — about the people and places that inspired his novels.
Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Frank Deford is senior contributing writer at Sports Illustrated. A weekly commentator for NPR’s “Morning Edition,” — where he recently he read his fifteenth-hundred commentary — he is also a regular correspondent on the HBO show “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
Christopher Buckley is author of fifteen books, which have translated into sixteen languages. They include: Steaming To Bamboola, The White House Mess, Wet Work, God Is My Broker, Little Green Men, No Way To Treat a First Lady, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, Losing Mum And Pup: A Memoir and Thank You For Smoking, which was made into a movie in 2005.
On Irving’s upcoming novel….“This tender exploration of nascent desire, of love and loss, manages to be sweeping, brilliant, political, provocative, tragic, and funny—it is precisely the kind of astonishing alchemy we associate with a John Irving novel. .. It is Irving at his most daring, at his most ambitious. It is America and American writing, both at their very best.”
—Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone and My Own Country
