Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures is pleased to present the following slate of speakers for the 2010-11 Drue Heinz Lectures:

 

September 20, 2010, Annie Barrows, Opening Night Lecture (The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society); October 4, 2010, Mary Karr (Lit, Cherry, The Liars' Club); October 18, 2010, The Honorable Justice Stephen Breyer (Through the Eyes of a Judge); November 1, 2010, Madhur Jaffrey (At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka); November 15, 2010, Andrew Ross Sorkin (Too Big to Fail); December 6, 2010, Lee Child (The Jack Reacher Novels); February 7, 2011, Sapphire (Push); February 21, 2011, Tracy Kidder (Strength In What Remains); March 21, 2011, Yann Martel (The Life of Pi); April 4, 2011, Norris Church Mailer (A Ticket to the Circus).

The 2010-11 season of The Drue Heinz Lectures will be the twentieth season of this Pittsburgh literary lecture series. The series began as the Three Rivers Lectures Series in 1991, at the Byham Theater (then Fulton Theater) and was created by local businessman Dennis Ciccone. The series was renamed The Drue Heinz Lectures in 1999, when The Drue Heinz Trust became the primary sponsor. The sponsorship of the Trust and Mrs. Heinz’s personal involvement in the selection of the speakers continues today.

Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures' Executive Director Jayne Adair says that the support of The Drue Heinz Trust has kept the series strong and relevant. “Mrs. Heinz believes that the literary arts have the power to raise the level of civic discourse in a community,” says Adair. “She has requested that we do not bring in authors who have controversial religious or political views but that we stick to those writers whose work expresses the great universal values of literature that bring a community together.

 

”The authors for the 2010-11 Drue Heinz Lectures represent widely diverse perspectives and all genres of literature including fiction, poetry, memoir, analysis, mystery and cuisine. “We’ve tried to cover all the bases for a memorable twentieth season,” says Adair, who has been working on the slate since December. “I get ideas from our audience, from reviews, and even from walking into a bookstore,” she says, “but I get clear direction from our board members and Mrs. Heinz.”

 

The Drue Heinz Lectures are produced by the non-profit organization, Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures, and are presented in association with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. The Drue Heinz Lectures are presented at the Carnegie Music Hall, in Oakland, on selected Mondays at 7:30 p.m. All lectures include a period dedicated to questions from the audience and a post-lecture book signing with the guest author. Books for The Drue Heinz Lectures are provided exclusively by the independent Penguin Bookshop, in Sewickley.

 

Tickets for the 2010-11 Drue Heinz Lectures are available in various subscription packages, or can be purchased for individual lectures at $25 or $15. Student and group discounts are also available. More information is available at www.pittsburghlectures.org.  To order tickets, call Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures at 412-622-8866 or click here to order online.

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