Influential Bay Area authors to garner honors at annual Berkeley library fundraiser dinner

Nearly two dozen Bay Area authors shaping the local literary scene will be honored next month, when the Berkeley Public Library Foundation hosts its 20^th Annual Authors Dinner in the recently renovated spaces of the historic downtown central library.

The foundation said in a statement that the honorees at the March 4 event include Prince Harry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ghostwriter, a MacArthur fellow, a Nobel laureate, officials from both the Obama and Clinton administrations and authors from every genre. All have recently published books.