TOUR SCHEDULE FOR THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS

From Miami to Mobile to New York to Amherst to London, and points in between:

(keep checking back, as details will be added--that is an 1839 portrait of Dickens on the left, by the way--my author photo is in much sharper focus)

Tour Schedule for Les Standiford
The Man Who Invented Christmas

Fri, Nov 7 Miami

8:00pm: Books & Books
Contact:Cristina Nosti
Ph: 305-444-9044
Email: cnosti@booksandbooks.com

Mon, Nov 10 Mobile, AL

7:00pm: West Regional Library
Reading, Q&A and signing

Contact: Nancy Anlage
Ph: (251)208-7097
nanlage@mplonline.org

Tues, Nov 11 Fairhope, AL

6-8:00pm: Page and Palette Bookstore
32 S. Section St.

Fairhope, AL 36532.

Tel: 251.928.5295

Sun, Nov 16 Miami

11:00am: Miami Book Fair
Contact: Penny Thurer, Author Liaison
Ph: 305-237-3564
With James Atlas, Nancy Milford, Stacy Schiff & Edmund White


Thurs, Nov 20 Ft. Lauderdale

1:30pm: Florida Center for the Book
Broward County Main Library
100 S. Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
954-357-7401
Email: tzimmerm@browardlibrary.org

Tues, Dec 2 Amherst, MA

2:00pm: UMass Amherst
Contact: Maddy Blais
Ph: 413-687-5161 (cell) or 508-696-8970 (landline)
Email: mhblais@journ.umass.edu

6:00pm: Williston-Northampton School
Contact: Maddy Blais

Wed, Dec 3 Northampton, MA

7:00pm: The Odyssey Bookshop

9 College Street South Hadley, MA 01075
Contact: Emily Russo
Ph: 413-534-7307
Email: Odysseynews@aol.com

Thus, Dec 4 NYC

6:00pm: University Club Library

Contact: Jane E. Reed, Assoc. Library Director
Ph: 212-247-2100


Sun, Dec 7 Palm Beach, FL

2:00pm: Lecture and Signing
Whitehall Museum Christmas Tree Lighting
Contact: John Blades, Director
Ph: 561-655-2833


Mon, Dec 8 Tampa, FL

6:00pm: Lecture and Signing
Plant Museum, University of Tampa
401 W. Kennedy Blvd.

Tampa, FL 33606
Contact: Gianna Russo, Curator of Education Ph: (813)258-7304
Email: Grusso@ut.edu

Tues, Dec 9 Sarasota, FL

1:00pm: Circle Books
478 John Ringling Blvd Sarasota, FL 34236
Contact: Eric Lamboley
Ph: 941-388-2850
Email: circlebooks@verizon.net

Sat, Dec 12 Vero Beach/Jacksonville, FL

1:00pm: Vero Beach Book Center

2145 Indian River Blvd

Vero Beach, FL 32960

(772) 569-6650
Contact Cynthia Grabenauer

publicity@verobeachbookcenter.com


6:00pm: Book Mark, Atlantic Beach (Jacksonville Beach)

299 Atlantic Blvd

Atlantic Beach, FL 32233

(904) 241-9026

Contact Rona Brinlee

Tues, Dec 16 Highland Beach/Palm Beach, FL

2:00pm: Highland Beach Public Library
Contact: Rae Stempel
Ph: 561-417-7460

6:00pm: Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach
Contact: Molly Charland and Brandy Stevenson
Ph: 561-655-2766


Sunday, Dec 21 London

3:30pm: Everyman Cinema--Belsize Park

203 Haverstock Hill

London,NW3 4QG

Contact: Louisa de Albuquerque T: 0203 145 0514

Showing of A Christmas Carol (1951), followed by discussion & signing

toma@everymanmediagroup.co