Love of Literacy Luncheon 2025
April 10 @ 11:30 am - 2:00 pm
Thank you to our Presenting Sponsor
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
We are excited to announce that our 34th annual Love of Literacy Luncheon will be held on April 10 and we hope you can join us! The Coalition’s signature event brings the community together to increase awareness of significant literacy needs and raises crucial funds to support literacy programs serving our community from Jupiter to Boca Raton to Belle Glade.
Victoria Christopher Murray is the New York Times and USA Today best selling author of more than 30 novels including two she co-wrote with Marie Benedict: The Personal Librarian about the remarkable story of J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who hid her true identity to leave a lasting legacy and The First Ladies about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune – an unlikely friendship that changed the world. Her latest book, Harlem Rhapsody was released Feb. 4, 2025, and is inspired by the life of Jessie Redmon Fauset, the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance. With more than 3 million books in print, Victoria is one of the country’s top African American contemporary authors.
“We’re pleased to have Victoria Christopher Murray join us as our guest speaker for this year’s celebration of literacy,” said Kristin Calder, CEO of the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County. “Victoria’s well-known historical fiction novels are compelling and popular, and we are eager to read her newest novel, Harlem Rhapsody, being released in February. We know our community will be intrigued by Victoria’s own story, as well as the strong women featured in her novels.”
— Kristin Calder, Literacy Coalition CEO
Contact Dawn for more information: 561-767-3370 or Communications@LiteracyPBC.org
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
33rd Love of Literacy Luncheon
Thank you to our supporters and volunteers who joined us on April 11, 2024, at the Literacy Coalition’s 33rd Love of Literacy Luncheon, presented by Bank of America, featuring New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks. It was an inspiring and exciting day in celebration of literacy.
Known for her impeccably researched historical novels, Australian-born author Geraldine Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March. Her novels People of the Book, Caleb’s Crossing and The Secret Chord all were New York Times bestsellers. Her first novel, Year of Wonders, is an international bestseller, translated into more than 25 languages and currently optioned for a limited series by acclaimed actress Olivia Coleman’s production company. Prior to writing novels, Brooks was a journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Wall Street Journal. Brooks’ latest critically acclaimed novel is Horse and is based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred, Lexington, who became America’s greatest stud sire.
Thank You to our 2024 Sponsors
Presenting Sponsor Bank of America; Platinum Sponsors: Brenda Medore, David K. and Pamela P. Reyes; Diamond Sponsors: Tim and Nancy Haviland, Nan Johnson and Robin Muir, Kosinski Family Foundation and Robinson Family Fund; Gold Sponsors: Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly, Gentle Medicine Associates, Inc., GL Homes, Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A., Karen Rogers, SCAPS Medical, LLC, Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A. and The Palm Beach Post; Silver Sponsors: Akerman, LLP, Cozen O’Connor, First Horizon Foundation, Barbara & Len Gray, The Lynch Family & Plastridge, Stephanie Kahlert, Lynn University, Lytal Reiter Smith Ivey & Fronrath, Nason Yeager Gerson Harris & Fumero, P.A., Bernadette O’Grady/WPTV 5 and U.S. Bank.
Thank you to the luncheon, co-chairs, Telsula C. Morgan of Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A. and Lindsay M. Reinhart of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley.
Click below to view the photos from the 2024 event
