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Literary luminaries at the 2008
Benefit of The Center for
Fiction, founded in 1820 as the
Mercantile Library. From left to
right: novelist Jeffrey
Eugenides;
honoree
Jonathan
Galassi, president of
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, who
received the 2008
Maxwell E. Perkins Award
for
Distinguished Achievement in the
Field of Fiction,
novelist Jonathan
Franzen.
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The 2009 Annual Benefit & Awards Dinner of
The Center for Fiction
November 9, 2009
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A
Celebration of the Art of Fiction. On
Monday, November 9, The Center for Fiction,
founded in 1820 as the Mercantile Library, will
host prominent members of New York's literary
and publishing worlds attending its Annual
Benefit and Awards Dinner at the New York
Racquet and Tennis Club. The Center is the only
non-profit literary organization in the United
States devoted entirely to fiction. The 5th
Maxwell E. Perkins Award will be presented to
Gerald Howard, executive editor at Doubleday.
The 2009 Center for Fiction First Novel Award
will be presented to one of seven finalists
attending the dinner.
Cocktails and auction at 6:30 pm. Dinner and
award presentations at 7:30 pm.
The New York Racquet and
Tennis Club, 370 Park Avenue.
Tickets from $425; tables at
$5000, $7500, $10,000 and $25,000.
Please contact:
Esther McGowan
at 212-755-6710 or by email at
esther@mercantilelibrary.org
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