10/6/14 The PEN/Faulkner Gala at the Folger Shakespeare Library

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 Calvin Trillin is the Master of Ceremonies of the Gala.  He calls himself “horizontally challenged” in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library.  He is master of ceremonies for the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

Author Ishmael Beah speaks with Mariella Trager, 53, at the Folger Shakespeare library before the readings at the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Chi Shia, 35, Daniela Shia-Sevilla, 15, Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson, Rachel Pyfrom, 16 and Sharon Pyfrom, 47 at the 26^th Annual Gala for the PEN/Faulkner Award October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

Author David Baldacci , is at the Folger Shakespeare Library to read for the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Piper Kerman, author of Orange Is The New Black,  is at the Folger Shakespeare Library to read for the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia   

Author Isabel Wilkerson talks with Rachel Pyfron  and Rachel’s mother Sharon Pyfrom in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia   

Banneker Academic High School senior Rachel Pyfrom and Duke Ellington School of the Arts sophomore Daniela Shia-Sevilla stand in front of the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library before reading for the 26^th Annual PEN/Faulkner Gala October 6^th.  

Ishmael Beah, originally from Sierra Leone and author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, is at the Folger Shakespeare Library to read for the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

 

Author Madison Smartt Bell and Piper Kerman are at the Folger Shakespeare Library to read for the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Author Calvin Trillin, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and the senator’s wife Marcelle Leahy are at the Folger Shakespeare Library for the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Author Piper Kerman, Sharon Pyfrom, Rachel Pyfrom and Daniela Shia-Sevilla are at the Folger Shakespeare Library for the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Author Mitchell S. Jackson takes a selfie with PEN/Faulkner Chairman of the Board Mary Haft at the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

(Left to right) Student reader Rachel Pyfrom, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT),  Marcelle Leahy and student reader Daniela Shia-Sevilla are at the Folger Shakespeare Library for the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Authors Isabel Wilkerson and Mitchell S. Jackson are at the Folger Shakespeare Library to read for the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Attorney Bob Bennett and his wife Ellen  are at the Folger Shakespeare Library for the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Master of Ceremonies and Author Calvin Trillin chats with CQ’s Finlay Lewis at are at the Folger Shakespeare Library for the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Author Piper Kerman and student writer Rachel Pyfrom are at the Folger Shakespeare Library to read for the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Author Calvin Trillin is at the Folger Shakespeare Library to be the master of ceremonies for the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Author Adelle Waldman talks with student authors Rachel Pyfrom and Daniela Shia-Sevilla in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library for the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Author David Baldacci reads his essay on danger at the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Author Ishmael Beah reads his essay on danger at the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Author Elliott Hold reads her his essay on danger at the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Author Piper Kerman reads her his essay on danger at the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

Author Rachel Pastan reads her his essay on danger at the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

Student author Rachel Pyfrom reads his essay on danger at the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

Author Benjamin Alire Saenz reads his essay on danger at the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson reads reads her his essay on danger at the PEN/Faulkner 26^th Annual Gala October 6^th.  Student author Daniela Shia-Sevilla listens behind her.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

The authors on stage at the Folger Shakespeare Library after reading for the 26^th Annual Gala Celebration of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction October 6^th, left to right,  Isabel Wilkerson, Ishmael Beah, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Piper Kerman (seated in front), Adelle Waldman, David Baldacci, Rachel Pyfrom (student reader from Banneker HS), Mitchell S. Jackson (seated in front), Madison Smartt Bell, Calvin Trillin, Elliott Holt (seated in front), Rachel Pastan and Daniela Shia-Sevilla (student reader from Duke Ellington School of the Arts) /Photo by Nancy Shia