Walter Mosley Headlines
VFH Center for the Book Benefit March 30
Paramount Theater, Charlottesville

(Charlottesville, VA…Dec. 3)  Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Center for the Book is pleased to announce that bestselling author Walter Mosley will headline a benefit during the 14th annual Virginia Festival of the Book on Sunday, March 30 at 4PM at the Paramount Theater. The benefit will build an endowment for the Center’s reading and literacy programs.  Underwriters for the benefit include Merrill Lynch, the Paramount Theater, Covington Travel and WMRA Public Radio.

“According to program evaluations, Walter Mosley ranks among our audience’s most requested authors,” said Festival Program Director Nancy Damon.

Mosley wrote his first novel Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990; it was later made into a film starring Denzel Washington. Devil’s success led to five more mysteries featuring private investigator Easy Rawlins, each of which became New York Times bestsellers.

In addition to his Easy Rawlins novels, the versatile Mosley has written a meditation on social morality and justice, the Fearless Jones series, three sci-fi novels, and a young adult novel. Among his numerous awards are a 2002 Grammy for the liner notes accompanying Richard Pryor’s And It’s Deep Too!, the Sundance Risktaker Award, and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award.

Mosley is an active voice for the black community in the ongoing effort for racial equality. In his essays and nonfiction (What Next: A Memoir Towards World Peace; Working on the Chain Gang; and Life Out of Context) he examines ways that the African-American perspective contributes to political, economic, and social progress in America.

Tickets will be available for sale December 17 through the Paramount Box Office (434-979-1333), including a Patron level ticket for $125 which covers admission to a reception with Mosley before the event and a copy of Blonde Faith.  Additional ticket prices are tiered at $65, $52, and $38.  Books will be available for sale after the event.

Orders placed by phone or internet will have a service charge added. Tickets can also be bought in person at the Paramount 215 E. Main Street, on the downtown mall.

The Virginia Festival of the Book is a signature program of the VFH Center for the Book. Proceeds from the benefit will also endow the Center’s ongoing book and literacy programs like Motheread/Fatheread of Virginia, Letters About Literature, The Big Read in Virginia, and the Virginia Arts of the Book Center.

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