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 On the evening of November 5, The New York Public Library will host the annual Library Lions benefit. Each year, the Library honors a group of outstanding individuals whose accomplishments enrich our lives with beauty and knowledge, and whose work is inspired by, and represented in, the Library's collections. This year's honorees are the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History John Hope Franklin; Pulitzer Prize winning-author Jhumpa Lahiri; Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese; and acclaimed playwright Sir Tom Stoppard.Master of Ceremonies for the evening's program will be Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress Jennifer Ehle. All benefit proceeds support the Library's General Book Fund, to acquire the books and materials needed to keep the collections current and vibrant for the 25 divisions of the four research centers, which include the Humanities and Social Sciences Library; the Library for the Performing Arts; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; and the Science, Industry and Business Library. The benefit's co-chairs are Mr. and Mrs. Oscar de la Renta; H.R.H. Princess Firyal and Mr. Lionel I. Pincus; Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Fuld, Jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn; Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Schwarzman; and The Honorable Merryl H. Tisch and Mr. James S. Tisch. For more information, please call 212-930-9222.
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