Laura Bush Former first lady, who wrote the New York Times best-seller “Spoken from the Heart,” during the program will read excerts of the memoir which then-Gov. Jeb Bush launched in 2001.
In the southeastern United States she has raised $16 million to increase literacy. Jeb Bush and his wife, Columba, will attend, as will former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara.
Also expected are Brazilian writer, "Paulo Coelho, whose international best-seller “The Alchemist” sold more than 110 million copies and was translated into 70 languages, and N.D. Wilson, author of the 100 Cupboards trilogy, including “100 Cupboards,” “Dandelion Fire” and “The Chestnut King.”
Tickets are available for $250 per person that event begins at 6 p.m in the reading festival instantly added a dinner.