Foundation

March 14, 2009
Hyatt Hotel

Emcee, the ever-entertaining
Dave Bender

The annual Authors on the Move black-tie dinner celebrates the Sacramento Public Library as the literary heart of the region and Sacramento as the home of many talented and nationally published authors. This event has positioned the Sacramento Public Library Foundation as the charity of choice for reading, learning and community.

This year our annual event is The Places We Go. On the night of the event at least one in three of the forty authors presenting will have written a book about travel. Our live auction will focus on offering our guests opportunities to travel in literary style.

Many community members will help make Authors on the Move successful.
For more information on becoming an event sponsor

When Franz Wisner’s fiancée left him days before their wedding, he decided to go ahead with the festivities, sans bride.  He then asked his younger brother Kurt to join him on the two-week, pre-paid honeymoon to Costa Rica. The brothers had such a good time exploring and re-bonding they decided to extend the honeymoon…for two years and 53 countries.

The result was Franz’s best-selling memoir, Honeymoon With My Brother. There was one problem. Somehow, Franz came back from the honeymoon single.  He then compounded his mistake by moving to the worst place on the planet be single – Los Angeles.  Franz needed help.

So he grabbed his brother and his backpack and hit the road again to find out How the World Makes Love, traveling to Brazil, Egypt, India, the Czech Republic, Nicaragua, New Zealand, and Botswana with a mission: to glean the planet’s most important love lessons and see if they could rescue him from the ruins of his own love life.  His new book hits bookstores (and the Authors on the Move dinner!) in March, 2009.

James D. Houston’s The Light Takes Its Color from the Sea, was one of his lesser-known essays written shortly after his return home to California after many years abroad. His new book, of the same title (and another Authors on the Move first!), is an expansion on that essay in which he shares with readers his intimate musings on what it means to make a home in Santa Cruz, California. Author of seven novels, Houston’s books include Snow Mountain Passage, Farewell to Manzanar, co-authored with his wife, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Bird of Another Heaven, published in early 2007, and The Last Paradise, which received the 1999 American Book Award.