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JUNE PREVIEW

Actress, Author Sally Field to Speak Saturday in New Orleans
Sally Field is a two-time Academy Award
and three-time Emmy Award winning actor,
who has portrayed dozens of iconic roles
on both the large and small screens. Her
extensive film credits include performances
in Robert Benson's Places of the Heart,
for which she received both the Academy
Award and a Golden Globe, and Martin
Ritt's Norma Rae, receiving not only the
Academy Award but also a Golden Globe.
She also received Golden Globe nominations
for her work in Smokey and the Bandit,
Absence of Malice, Kiss Me Goodbye, and
Steel Magnolias and received both SAG and
BAFTA nominations for her work in Forrest
Gump. Other films include Lincoln, An Eye
for An Eye, Mrs. Doubtfire, Soapdish, Not
Without My Daughter, The End, Hooper,
Stay Hungry (her first major film role), and
Hello, My Name is Doris. She starred in both
Punchline and Murphy's Romance, which

Sally Field
Auditorium Speaker Series

Saturday 6/23, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Sponsored by Hachette Book Group

were produced by her production company,
Fogwood Films. The session will take place
on Saturday, June 23, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. at the
2018 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition
in New Orleans, LA.
Born in Pasadena, California and raised
in a show-business family, Sally Field is one
of the most celebrated, beloved and enduring actors of our time, and now she tells her
story for the first time in an intimate and
haunting literary memoir, In Pieces, available Fall 2018. In her own words, she writes
about a challenging and lonely childhood,
the craft that helped her find her voice, and
a powerful emotional legacy that shaped

her journey as a daughter
and a mother. With raw
honesty and the fresh,
pitch-perfect prose of a
natural-born writer, and
with all the humility and
authenticity her fans have
come to expect, Field
brings readers behind
the scenes for not only
the highs and lows of her
star-studded early career
in Hollywood, but deep Sally Field (photo by John Russo)
into the truth of her lifelong relationships and in 2015, she was honored by President
including, most importantly, her compli- Obama with the National Medal of Arts.
cated love for her own mother. Powerful and She has served on the Board of Directors of
unforgettable, In Pieces is an inspiring and Vital Voices since 2002 and also served on
important account of life as a woman in the the Board of The Sundance Institute.
This session is sponsored by Hachette
second half of the twentieth century.
In 2012, Sally Field was inducted into Book Group.
Get details and add to your schedule now.
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Presidential Historian, Author to Present
World-renowned presidential historian, public speaker, and Pulitzer
Prize-winning author for No Ordinary
Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt:
The Home Front in World War II, Doris
Kearns Goodwin is the author of six
critically acclaimed books, including her most recent, The Bully Pulpit:
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard
Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, a
dynamic historical portrayal of the first
decade during the Progressive era. This
was a tumultuous time as the nation
was becoming unseamed and reform
was in the air.  Film and television
rights have been acquired by Steven
Spielberg's DreamWorks Studios for the
book, making this her second juncture
with Spielberg, as they worked together
on "Lincoln," based in part on Goodwin's award-winning  book,  Team of
Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham
Lincoln, winner of the Lincoln Prize and

The "Now Showing @ ALA Film
Program" offers a variety of films and
documentaries throughout the conference from Saturday through Monday.
With a range of screening times, stop
by between meetings or for an educational break.
Theater A
the public
Saturday, June 23
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
2:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 24
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
EX LIBRIS
The New York Public Library
Monday, June 25
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Theatre C
Saturday, June 23
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Defiant Lives

Doris Kearns Goodwin
(Photo by Eric Levin)

the inaugural Book Prize for American
History.
In Goodwin's new book,  Leadership: In Turbulent Times, available Fall
2018, she draws upon four of the presidents she has studied most closely -
Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B.
Johnson (in civil rights) - to show how
they first recognized leadership qualities
within themselves and were recognized
by others as leaders.
At the age of 24, Goodwin became
a White House Fellow and served as an
assistant to President Lyndon Johnson
during his last year in the White House.
She later worked with him in the
preparation of his memoirs. Goodwin
became a professor at her alma mater,
Harvard University where she taught
Government, which included a course
on the American Presidency. As a young
senator, former President Barack Obama,

Doris Kearns Goodwin
Auditorium Speaker Series

Saturday 6/23, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Sponsored by Simon & Schuster

after reading Goodwin's Wait till Next Year:
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream,
telephoned her out of the blue requesting to
meet to discuss the book - and a friendship
was established. During his Presidency, Mr.
Obama occasionally invited her, and a few
other select presidential historians to the
White House to discuss past presidents,
their legacies, and on occasion to request
counsel. He granted Goodwin an "exit
interview" for  Vanity Fair  as he prepared
to leave office that focused on what could
be considered his own presidential legacy.
Goodwin's appearance is sponsored by
Simon & Schuster.
Get details and add to your schedule now.

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
RGB - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Get more information and film descriptions here.
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
The Great American Read

9:15 - 9:45 a.m.
Echoes of Vietnam

10:30 - 11:45 a.m.
CERN

9:45 - 10:05 a.m.
The Exceptionally Extraordinary
Emporium

1:00 - 2:00 p.m
Changing Face of Harlem
2:30 - 4:00 p.m
Big Bad Fox & Other Tales
4:00 - 5:30 p.m
Breaking Silence
Sunday, June 24
8:00 - 9:15 a.m.
Forgotten Bayou

Monday, June 25
8:00 - 10:00 a.m.
The Rape of Recy Taylor
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Hilda
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Tib and Tumtum: Episodes 1 & 2 of a
new animated series based on a children's
comic book!

10:10 - 10:30 a.m.
Summer16

12:00 - 12:30 p.m.
The Fox Badger Family: 2-3 episodes of
this new series

10:30 a.m. -- 12:00 p.m.
Jackson

1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Tears of an Afghan Warlord

1:00 - 2:45 p.m
Nana

2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Kedi

3:00 - 3:45 p.m
A Chance to Dress: Cross-dressing, shame
and liberation

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
The Last Laugh
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