Sarasota, FL – The Library Foundation for Sarasota County today announced that award-winning journalist and author, Bob Woodward, will be the guest speaker at the 8th Annual Author Luncheon on February 10, 2020. The event will be held at the Sarasota Municipal Auditorium. The presenting sponsor is the Community Foundation of Sarasota County.
Woodward has been associate editor at The Washington Post since 1971. He has shared in two Pulitzer prizes: first in 1973 for coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, and second in 2003 as the lead reporter for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Woodward has authored 19 books. His latest, Fear: Trump in the White House, became a No. 1 international best-seller, selling over 1.1 million copies in its first week—breaking the 94-year-old first-week sales record for its publisher Simon & Schuster—and sold nearly 2 million copies in hardback, eBook, and audio in its first four months.
Shannon Staub, chair of the Annual Luncheon, shared that 437 tickets have already been sold for the February 10 event to Library Foundation supporters. She said,”We are delighted to be well on our way to another sold out luncheon with 600 guests. We think Bob Woodward will be an exciting guest as he will talk about all the presidents and elections about which he has written.”
The Annual Author Luncheon is the Library Foundation’s only fundraiser. Since the event’s inception in 2012, more than $1 million in net proceeds has been raised to support Library Foundation operations, programs and endowments for children’s literacy and sustainability. In 2020, proceeds from the Author Luncheon will support a Creation Station program, to include a mobile unit that will travel throughout Sarasota County.
Table sponsorships and individual tickets are available by going to the Library Foundation website at https://sarasotalibraryfoundation.org/programs/bob-woodward-tickets/ or by calling Margaret Boyd at (941) 228-6274.