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More than 300 people joined us on December 11 at The Union League Club to honor Robin Desser with the 2013 Maxwell E. Perkins Award and to hear the announcement of our Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize winner. The award went to Margaret Wrinkle for her novel Wash (Atlantic Monthly Press). Our speakers included honorary benefit chairs Sonny Mehta and Claire Messud, Master of Ceremonies B.J. Novak, and 2012 First Novel Prize winner Ben Fountain.
B.J Novak
Edwidge Danticat
Ben Fountain
Honorary Co-Chairs
Sonny Mehta
Claire Messud
Co-Chairs
Gabrielle Bamberger
Sharen Benenson
Auction Chairs
Nancy Dunnan
Pilar Queen
Benefit Committee
Lorraine Adams
Nicole Aragi
Reagan Arthur
Lila Azam Zanganeh
Claudia Ballard
Rena Bartos
Millicent Bennett
A.S. Byatt
Maria & Woodrow Campbell
Anne Carson
Elyse Cheney
Carmela Ciuraru
Leigh S. Curry
Kiran Desai
Rita Dove
Jennifer Egan
Gary Fisketjon
Fletcher & Company
Nell Freudenberger
Molly Friedrich
FSG
Kate Garrick
Suzanne Gluck
Rebecca Godfrey
Arthur Golden
Nan Graham
David Guterson
Daniel Halpern
Joy Harris
Cristina Henriquez
Alan Hollinghurst
A.M. Homes
Gerald Howard
Bronwen Hruska
ICM Partners
Pico Iyer
Susan Petersen Kennedy
Jhumpa Lahiri
Nam Le
Jack & Alice London
Barry Lopez
Marisa Marchetto
Daniel Mason
Maria Massie
Peter Matson
Celia & Henry McGee
Daniel Mendelsohn
Steven Millhauser
Michael Morrison
Zoe Pagnamenta
Rajesh Parameswaran
Jordan Pavlin
Roxana Robinson
James Salter
Esmeralda Santiago
Jonathan Santlofer
Lorraine Shanley
Al & Rosa Silverman
Simon & Schuster
Eric Simonoff
Jane Smiley
Liate Stehlik
Lorin Stein
Hannah Tinti
Abraham Verghese
Shelley Wanger
Edmund White
Reba & Dave Williams
WME
Andrew Wylie