6/24/2008
flashpoint welcomes marie brenner
PLEASE JOIN FLASHPOINT IN WELCOMING ACCLAIMED AUTHOR MARIE BRENNER FOR A READING FROM HER LATEST NOVEL, APPLES & ORANGES: MY BROTHER AND ME, LOST AND FOUND
Q&A Session with Brenda Sexton, Former Managing Director of the IL Film Office, will follow reading.
**Signed books will be available for purchase at Flashpoint following the presentation through the Book Stall at Chestnut Court Located in Winnetka
WHEN Tuesday, June 24th at 12pm
WHERE Flashpoint Academy, 28 North Clark St., 5th Floor
RSVP Flashpoint Events or 312-506-0632
ABOUT MARIE BRENNER
Marie Brenner is an author and Writer at Large for Vanity Fair.
She has published five books, including Great Dames: What I Learned from Older Women (Crown, 2000) and the bestselling House of Dreams, The Bingham Family of Louisville (Random House, 1989). She joined the staff of Vanity Fair in 1985; she has also been a contributing editor for New York magazine and The New Yorker, and has contributed articles to the New York Times Magazine and Vogue.
She is the winner of six Front Page awards for her journalism and the Frank Luther Mott Kappa Tau Alpha Award for research. Her 2003 investigation of the rise of anti-Semitism in France (“France’s Scarlet Letter’) made international news.
Her expose of the tobacco industry, “The Man Who Knew Too Much”, was the basis for the 1999 movie “The Insider,” which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Her article “Erotomania” became the Lifetime movie “Obsessed.” The director Alex Gibney is currently developing her article “In the Kingdom of Big Sugar” for Tribeca Films.
She lives in New York City.
WATCH Marie Brenner at Flashpoint - "Five Ways To Better Sibling Relationships"
