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PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS

Peninsula Volunteers, Inc. presents

the 30th Annual 

AUTHORS SALON

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Peninsula Volunteers, Inc. Authors Salon 2021

Jan Yanehiro

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Emmy-Award winning Broadcast Journalist Yanehiro received the Eleanor Roosevelt humanitarian award from the United Nations of San Francisco and was inducted into the Academy of Television and Radio Hall of Fame in New York. She is the Co-Chair of  Diversity and Inclusion at the Academy of Art University. She co-authored This is Not the Life I Ordered with the Hon. Jackie Speier, Michaelene Cristini Risley, and Deborah Collins Stephens.

Esther Wójcicki

AUTHOR

Journalist, educator, and Vice Chair of the Creative Commons advisory council, Wojcicki founded the Palo Alto High School Media Arts Program and Co-Founded TractLearning. Her first book Moonshots in Education: Launching Blended Learning in the Classroom earned praise from educators, critics, and parents. Her most recent book How to Raise Successful People reflects on her own journey raising three of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley.

 

 

Daniel Mason

Author

Daniel Mason is a physician and author. His award-winning work has been translated into 28 languages. His book The Piano Tuner was produced as an opera by Music Theatre Wales. An Asst. Prof. in the Stanford Dept. of Psychiatry, his research and teaching interests include the subjective experience of mental illness and the influence of literature, history, and culture on the practice of medicine.

Louise Aronson, MD MFA

AUTHOR

Louise Aronson is a leading geriatrician, writer, educator, professor of medicine at UCSF and the author of the NY Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life. For her academic work focused on aging, ageism and the use of narrative to improve health and health care, Dr. Aronson has received multiple awards. Her writing credits include the NY Times, Atlantic, Washington Post, Discover, Vox, JAMA, Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine, and she has been featured on NPR, TODAY, CBS, NBC News, Morning Edition, Politico, Kaiser Health News, Tech Nation and the New Yorker.

To purchase

Peninsula Volunteers, Inc. Authors Salon Books,

click on the titles below

A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth by Daniel Mason

Elderhood

by

Louise Aronson

The Winter Soldier

by

Daniel Mason

This is Not the Life I Ordered 

by Jan Yanehiro 

How to Raise Successful People 

by Esther Wójcicki

The Piano Tuner

by 

Daniel Mason 

A History of the Present Illness

by Louise Aronson

Special Thanks to our Generous Sponsors

NOBEL LAUREATE ($3,500)

 

Ann Griffiths

 

PULITZER PRIZE ($2,500)


Cynthia and William Floyd

Jeanne Fischer & Susan Sweeney

Zeni Mallari & Marylue Timpson


NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ($1,500)


Huguette Bartels

Carolyn Bergamo

Pat and Phillip DeBrincat

Jeanne Fischer

Anna Marie and Jim Janky

Gloria Kennett

Beverly and Jim Nelson


MAJOR DONORS (over $500)


Shirley and Mark Flegel

Honor and Hillard Huntington

Al Kopfman

Audrey Lampert

Anne and Richard Melbye

Candice Provines

Jacki and John Scandalios

Patricia Tanoury

Mary Young





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To Purchase a Book

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The Titles Below

This is Not the Life

I Ordered 

by

Jan Yanehiro

How to Raise Successful People

by

Esther Wojcicki

A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth

by

Daniel Mason

Elderhood

Pullitzer Prize Finalist

by

Louise Aronson

The Winter Soldier

by

Daniel Mason

The Piano Tuner

by

Daniel Mason

A History of the Present Illness

by

Louise Aronson


SPECIAL THANKS

to our

GENEROUS SPONSORS

 

Nobel Laureate ($3,500) 

Ann Griffiths

 

Pulitzer Prize ($2,500) 

Jeanne Fischer & Susan Sweeney

Cynthia & William Floyd

Zeni Mallari & Marylue Timpson

 

 

National Book Award ($1,500)

Carolyn Bergamo

Anna Marie & Jim Janky

Pat & Phillip DeBrincat


Major Donors (over $500)

Shirley & Mark Flegel

Audrey Lampert



 

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

($1,500)

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