Globe and Mail/Ben McNally Brunch Series With Maria Tipett
Join Maria Tipett (Portrait in Light and Shadow: The Life of Yousuf Karsh), Tom Perrotta (The Abstinence Teacher), Anna Porter (Kasztner's Train), and A.J. Jacobs (The Year of Living Biblically) for the Globe and Mail/Ben McNally Brunch Series at the King Edward Hotel on December 9th at 10:00 a.m. Tickets $40. Visit the Ben McNally Books website for details.
Dr. Maria Tipett is one of Canada's most prominent cultural historians and the author of many books on art, culture, and history. She has lectured extensively on Canadian art and culture in North and South America, Japan, and Europe and has curated exhibitions in Canada and abroad. Her books have won numerous awards, including the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for Canadian History. She lives with her husband, historian Peter Clarke, in British Columbia.
Tom Perrotta is the author of five previous works of fiction: Bad Haircut, The Wishbones, Election, and the New York Times bestselling Joe College and Little Children. Election was made into the acclaimed 1999 movie directed by Alexander Payne and starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon. Little Children was released as a movie directed by Todd Field and starring Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly in 2006. Perrotta lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
Anna Porter was until 2005 the publisher of Key Porter Books and remains one of Canada’s most respected publishing professionals. She is the author of three crime novels and The Storyteller, a heartfelt memoir of her family's life in Hungary during the tumultuous years of the Second World War to the 1956 revolution, and their exile to New Zealand. She lives in Toronto.
A.J. Jacobs is the editor of What It Feels Like and the author of The Two Kings: Jesus and Elvis and America Off-Line. He is the senior editor of Esquire and has written for The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, New York magazine, New York Observer, and other publications.
