SIGNED CHAPBOOK
FOR THE
TENTH BIRTHDAY PARTY OF POETS & WRITERS, INC.
(17 signatures of renowned writers)
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Lauren Bacall           William Styron
George Plimpton
welcome you 
to the 
Tenth Birthday Party
of
Poets & Writers, Inc.

This is a very rare, highly collectible CHAPBOOK for an event (ball) hosted by Lauren Bacall, William Styron and George Plimpton in 1980, "Tenth Birthday Party of Poets & Writers, Inc." In this chapbook, there are 31 famous writers and poets, half of which have signed their name underneath the piece of writing presented in this book.

Among the honored poets & writers are 17 signatures including: Margaret Atwood, Louis Auchincloss, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Gail Godwin, John Irving, Galway Kinnell, Maxine Kumin, Peter Matthiessen, William Meredith, James Merrill, W.S. Merwin, Grace Paley, Judith Rossner, Louis Simpson, William Jay Smith and John A. Williams on the page of their presented piece of writing.

The program in the forefront presents the benefactors, patrons, sponsors and board of directors and in the rear 'Happy Birthday' ads; to list a few: The Swallow Press, Inc., CBS, Inc. The New York Times, The Paris Review, etc. The other 16 authors presented in the program that did not sign are: Paul Bowles, Rita Mae Brown, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Richard Eberhart, John Hawkes, Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, Carl Rakosi, Samuel Beckett, Ishmael Reed, Ntozake Shange, William Stafford, John Updike and Derek Walcott.

Roseland
October 22, 1980

©1980 Poet's & Writers, Inc.
New York, New York

Helen Handley, General Chair, President, Friends of Poets & Writers, Inc.
Galen Williams, Founder and Executive Director
4to. Unpaginated ~64pp.