has named its 2005 Library Laureates and the list includes our own Donna Wares, editor of both My California: Journeys By Great Writers and CaliforniaAuthors.com. What a great honor!

The other laureates are Daniel Alarcon, Samina Ali, Tom Barbash, Farai Chidea, George Daugherty, Tom Dolby, David Ewing Duncan, Mary Ford-Grabowsky, Molly Giles, Rose Guilbault, Andrew Sean Greer, Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), Bill Hayes, Jane Hirshfield, Guy Kawasaki, Cathy Luchetti, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Cyra McFadden, Dan Millma, Kirk Russell, Thomas Sanchez, Deborah Santana, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Jerry Stahl, Vendela Vida, Ayelet Waldman, Jacqueline Winspear, Tobias Wolff, Irvin Yalom, Marilyn Yalom, Keith Zimmerman and Kent Zimmerman.

The April 22 Laureates Dinner is one of the San Francisco Public Library’s biggest fundraisers, “a rare event that is both genuinely elegant and genuinely fun,” says author liaison Kathi Kamen Goldmark. Read more here.