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Reading between the Wines Friday April 9, 2010 at 6 p.m. Orlando Marriott Downtown, Grand Ballroom Featuring fabulous food, wine and authors to stimulate all of your senses! Special Guests: Connie May Fowler, an award-winning novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter. Grand Central Publishing will publish her most recent novel, How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly, April 2, 2010. She is the author of six other books: five critically acclaimed novels and one memoir. Ms. Fowler adapted her book Before Women had Wings for Oprah Winfrey. The result was an Emmy-winning film starring Ms. Winfrey and Ellen Barkin. Visit Connie's website by clicking here. Gerald Posner, an investigative journalist and author of several books, including Case Closed (1993) which explores the John F. Kennedy assassination, and Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. You can learn more about him on his website at www.posner.com. Bob Morris, a former newspaper and magazine columnist, his series of mystery novels on Zack Chasteen take place in Florida and the Caribbean. Visit his website here.
Individual tickets: $100. Tickets are available for purchase at the door. No credit card orders for tickets can be processed today. Proceeds from the event will help expand literacy services in Central Florida where 14% of adults cannot read at a 5th grade level. Another 29% have only the most basic of skills or are non-literate in English. Sponsored by:
Participating Restaurants:
Host Committee: Dick Batchelor, President, Dick Batchelor Management Group
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