Burlingame Library Foundation 10th Annual Book and Author Luncheon

Join us for lunch and our featured authors.

Lori Ostlund
Lori Ostlund’s novel After the Parade, which is set in San Francisco and small-town Minnesota, is on the shortlist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and is a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Her first book, a story collection entitled The Bigness of the World, won the 2008 Flannery O’Connor Award, the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, and the 2009 California Book Award for First Fiction. Stories from it appeared in the Best American Short Stories and the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. She is a teacher and lives in San Francisco with Anne Raeff and their two cats, Oscar and Prakash.

Jan Ellison
Jan Ellison is a novelist, essayist and short-story writer. Her debut novel, A SMALL INDISCRETION, was both an Oprah Editor’s Pick and a San Francisco Chronicle Book Club Pick. Jan’s essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Narrative Magazine and elsewhere, and she received an O. Henry Prize for her first short story to appear in print. Jan grew up in L.A. and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband of twenty years and their four children.

David Talbot
Best selling author David Talbot’s new work, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government, spotlights the legendary CIA director and the rise of the national security state.  It was released and named the best book of the month by Amazon and New York Magazine in October 2015. David is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, and the critically acclaimed, San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller, Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love. Mr. Talbot is the founder of the online magazine Salon and lives in San Francisco. 

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