Americans in Paris September 22, 2011

On Thursday, Sept. 22, Litquake hosts a fundraising feast of words and French cuisine, as we welcome three heralded authors known for Parisian settings in their fiction: Cara Black, Diane Johnson and Ellen Sussman.

The charming setting will be the intimate cellar dining room of Cafe Bastille on Belden Place, in the heart of San Francisco's French corridor. Prix fixe dinner includes three courses, unlimited wine, and delicious readings sure to put you in the mood for all things Parisian! Drinks and mingling at 6:30, with program and dinner starting at 7 pm. Please join us, enjoy a fabulous meal, and support the largest nonprofit literary festival in the country! Book sales and signing to follow.

Our authors for the evening:

CARA BLACK writes the award-nominated and bestselling Aimee Leduc series of mysteries - including this year's "Murder in Passy" - which are set in different districts of Paris. She's a San Francisco Library Laureate, President of the Northern California Mystery Writers of America and member of the Marais Historic Society in Paris.

A two-time finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, DIANE JOHNSON has drawn comparisons to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton with her comedies of manners about Americans living and loving abroad, especially in La Ville-Lumiere. Her books include "L'Affaire" (2004), "Le Mariage" (2000), and "Le Divorce" (1997), which won the California Book Award gold medal for fiction and was adaption into a 2003 movie starring Kate Hudson.

ELLEN SUSSMAN's new novel, The New York Times bestselling "French Lessons," is set in the City of Lights, and follows the lives of three French tutors and their American students, during the course of one eventful day. She and her husband Neal Rothman live in Los Altos Hills.

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