December Brown Bag Lunch

Living Legend: Esther Margolis
President and Founder of NewMarket Press
Thursday, December 14, 2006 from 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
RANDOM HOUSE: 2nd Floor1745 Broadway b/w 55th and 56th st., New York, NY

Esther Margolis, founded the New York City-based company in 1981, after 17 years at Bantam Books where she originated Bantam’s publicity operation, ultimately becoming senior vice president of the company and Bantam’s first division head for marketing, publicity and communications worldwide, working with such authors as E. L. Doctorow, William Goldman, Louis L’Amour, Maya Angelou, Gail Sheehy, and E.L. Doctorow. One of the few mainstream, independent trade publishing houses in NYC, Newmarket publishes about 30 mainly nonfiction books a year in the areas of film, performing arts, parenting, health, personal finance, business and biography. Successes include the bestselling What’s Happening To My Body? series by Lynda Madaras; Suze Orman’s You’ve Earned It, Don’t Lose It®; the first biography of Condoleezza Rice, Stuart Gold’s Ping: A Frog in Search of a New Pond, The Big Book of Su Doku series, and more than 100 titles on film and filmmaking, on such films as Dreamgirls, Little Miss Sunshine, Hotel Rwanda, Sideways, Dances with Wolves, and Gandhi. Born and raised in Detroit, she is an alumna of the University of Michigan.

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Space is limited and reserved on a first-come-first serve basis. Because of increased security measures, you must RSVP by Monday, November 20th in order to be admitted. Anyone arriving after 12:40 will not be admitted to the lunch.R.S.V.P. to YPGLunchReservations@hotmail.com

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Diversify the spines on your bookshelf—swap books with a fellow ypger! BOOK SWAP RULES – “BRING 2 TAKE 2” ONLY