A series of intimate dinners with local Colorado authors
These special dinners offer you the opportunity to converse with some of Denver’s resident authors. You’ll enjoy lively conversation while dining on a delicious meal in the intimate setting of the host’s home. Proceeds benefit the Humanities Institute. Each seat at a dinner is $150 ($65 is tax deductible).
Reservations for the 2011/2012 dinner series are welcomed. Please register online or call 303-871-2425.
Chapter One
Mrs. Dottie Lamm, author of Daddy on Board
Hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Willis and Dawn Wood at their home in Denver*
Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 6 p.m.
An in-depth look at how today’s couples share parenting roles, Daddy On Board is a work of nonfiction by former first lady of Colorado, Dottie Lamm, that illuminates
parenting habits, gender roles and how parenting has changed significantly since the
late 1960s. From stay-at-home dads to the “mommy wars,” Daddy On Board examines the
parenting role issues that still linger in the 21st century and new trends toward
“partnership parenting.” Lamm offers a fascinating study of modern couples and the
societal pressures they continue to face by sharing personal insights and anecdotes
from interviews with parents and professional counselors. A Coloradan since 1959,
Lamm has been involved in the fight for women’s equality and reproductive rights as
the former first lady of Colorado, as a Colorado Democratic candidate for U.S.
Chapter Two
Ms. Eleanor Brown, author of The Weird Sisters
Hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Richard and Michele Right at their home in Denver*
Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012, at 6 p.m.
The Andreas sisters were raised on books — their family motto might as well be, ‘There’s
no problem a library card can’t solve.’ Their father, a renowned, eccentric professor
of Shakespearean studies, named them after three of the Bard’s most famous characters:
Rose (Rosalind — As You Like It), Bean (Bianca — The Taming of the Shrew), and Cordy (Cordelia — King Lear), but they have inherited those characters’ failures along with their strengths.
Now the sisters have returned home to the small college town where they grew up partly
because their mother is ill, but mostly because their lives are falling apart and
they don’t know where to go next. The sisters never thought they would find the answers
to their problems in each other, but over the course of one long summer, they find
that everything they’ve been running from might offer more than they ever expected.
Eleanor Brown’s writing has appeared in anthologies, journals, magazines and newspapers.
The Weird Sisters, her first novel, hit the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and national Indie best
seller lists. She resides in Colorado with her partner and new media writer J.C. Hutchins.
Chapter Three
Ms. Lisa Jones, author of Broken: A Love Story
Hosted by Judy and Newell Grant at the historic Grant Ranch (Raccoon Creek Golf Course)
horse stable
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012, at 6 p.m.
Writer Lisa Jones went to Wyoming for a four-day magazine assignment and came home
four years later with a new life. At a dusty corral on the Wind River Indian Reservation,
she met Stanford Addison, a Northern Arapaho who seemed to transform everything around
him. He gentled horses rather than breaking them by force. It was said that he could
heal people of everything from cancer to bipolar disorder. He did all this from a
wheelchair; he had been a quadriplegic for more than twenty years. Broken entwines
Jones’ story with Addison’s, exploring powerful spirits, material poverty, spiritual
wealth, friendship, violence, confusion, death and above all else, “a love that comes
before and after and above and below romantic love.” Jones is a journalist who has
covered topics ranging from high school basketball in Wyoming to cowgirls during calving
season to the state of land-grant universities in the West. Broken: A Love Story is her first book. She lives in Colorado with her husband and two cats.
*Address shared upon registration.
Over the past five years, our featured authors have included:
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Kate Tweedy, co-author of Secretariat's Meadow
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Helen Thorpe, author of Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in Americ
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Carlotta LaNier, author of A Mighty Long WayU.S. Representative Diana DeGette, author of Sex, Science and Stem Cells
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Stephen White, author of the best-selling Alan Gregory series
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Francine Mathews, author of Blown, and the Jane Austen mysteries
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JR Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar
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Robert Greer, author of the CJ Floyd novels
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Bruce Ducker, author of Mooney in Flight
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