The Associates of the Boston Public Library will be hosting the 25th annual Literary Lights on April 14, 2013 at the Boston Park Plaza. This annual black tie dinner is our opportunity to honor outstanding writers from the Northeast and celebrate their contribution to literature. We are excited to announce this year’s honorees or "Literary Lights," who we will recognize for excellence in a wide variety of literary genres. Collectively, they have won dozens of major awards for their inspiring work. This year’s Literary Lights are:

David McCullough 

Keynote Speaker

Writer, narrator, historian, and lecturer, author of John Adams, and Truman.

Presented by: Ric Burns

Junot Diaz

Professor, writer, editor, and author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and This Is How You Lose Her.

Presented by: Erica Funkhouser

Drew Faust

President of Harvard University, Professor of History, and author of Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War.

Presented by: Geraldine Brooks

Joseph Finder

Writer, former Harvard Faculty member, former CIA recruit, and author of High Crimes, The Moscow Club, Paranoia, and many others.

Presented by: John Taylor Williams

David Lindsay-Abaire

Playwright, lyricist, and screenwriter and author of The Rabbit Hole.

Presented by: Peter DuBois

Sherry Turkle

Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other.

Presented by: David Kaiser

Mo Willems

Writer, animator, children's books author/illustrator, and author of the Knuffle Bunny and Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.

Presented by: Jack Gantos