Library Lions

Save-the-Date
Monday, November 2, 2009

The 2008 Library Lions. From left, Ashley Bryan, Nora Ephron, Edward Albee, and Salman Rushdie.

Library Lions is The New York Public Library’s most important annual event and one of the most anticipated dinners on New York City’s social calendar. Each year Library Lions honors several distinguished individuals for outstanding achievements in their respective fields of arts, letters, and scholarship.

Honorees have included such eminent figures as Oprah Winfrey, David Remnick, Martin Scorsese, Renée Fleming, Orhan Pamuk, Elie Wiesel, Audra McDonald, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Salman Rushdie, and Tom Stoppard.

This brilliant, black-tie gala takes place at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street and attracts a high-profile crowd of more than 600 writers, fashion icons, celebrities, and government and corporate leaders, generating a great deal of press coverage such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New York Sun, New York Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, and many other periodicals.

Cocktails begin at 7:00 p.m. in Astor Hall, with dinner and the program following in the breathtaking Deborah, Jonathan F.P., Samuel Priest, and Adam R. Rose Main Reading Room.

The 2008 Library Lions Chairmen were 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. John B. Hess; Mr. and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn; Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Schwarzman; and The Honorable Merryl H. Tisch and Mr. James S. Tisch.

View the 2007 Library Lions photo gallery


For more information please call 212-930-0671.
LibraryLions@nypl.org