Message From the Director, March 2010
Susan Flannery (sflannery@minlib.net)

You Are Invited…

The Friends of the Cambridge Public Library are delighted to invite you and your friends to a unique celebration of our new book. Come to the first event in our Cambridge Voices author series on March 11 at 6:30 P.M. Distinguished local writers Mary Catherine Bateson, Mark Feeney, and Michael Meltsner will read and discuss their work in the Main Library Lecture Hall.

Mary Catherine Bateson is a cultural anthropologist who is president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York, and a visiting scholar at Boston College's Center on Aging and Work. She has taught at Harvard, Northeastern, Amherst, Spelman College, and George Mason University. Among her books are Composing A Life; Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery; and With A Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.

Mark Feeney is a longtime editor and writer at the Boston Globe and a lecturer in American Studies at Brandeis University. In 2008, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for "his penetrating and versatile command of the visual arts." His work has appeared in many publications including New Republic, Harper's, and American Scholar. He is the author of Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief.

Michael Meltsner is the Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law at Northeastern University. Professor Meltsner was first assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1960s and served as dean of the law school from 1979 until 1984. He has served as a consultant to the US Department of Justice, the Ford Foundation and the Legal Action Center and has lectured in Canada, Egypt, Germany, India, the Netherlands and South Africa. His memoir, The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer, was published in 2006.

You are sure to be engaged by the lively and thoughtful speakers at this event which is free and open to the public. Copies of Cambridge Voices will be on sale and available for autographs after the program. [Cash or checks only.]