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The Library Foundation would like to thank The Patricia Cornwell Foundation and the estates of Jack A. and Edith L. Hunter for making this year's Marion McFadden Memorial Lecture a success!

Check out the interview with the 2009 McFadden Lecturer, Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks is the author of 14 New York Times bestsellers, including Three Weeks with My Brother, the memoir he wrote with his brother, Micah. His books have been translated into more than forty languages and there are over 50 million copies of his books in print worldwide. Several of his novels have been adapted into major motion pictures, including The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, Message in a Bottle and Nights in Rodanthe. Dear John is currently in development by New Line Cinema. Nicholas and his family live in the Carolinas.

Books by Nicholas Sparks

The Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library Foundation, Inc. was established in 1969 to promote the development and improvement of Library facilities and services, and to support and enhance Library programs and projects by raising private contributions. All gifts to the Library Foundation assure the continuation of support for children’s reading programs, lecture series, and other special events and programs presented by the Library for the benefit of the community.

The Marian McFadden Memorial Lecture Series was established after the Library Foundation received a gift from the estate of Marian McFadden, Director of Public Libraries from 1945-1956. This annual author lecture series was named in her honor. This year, we are proud to receive additional support from The Patricia Cornwell Foundation and the estates of Jack A. and Edith L. Hunter. Ms. Cornwell was the 2006 Marian McFadden Memorial Lecture speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter's estate gifts were made in memory of Edith's sisters, Elizabeth I. Evans and Gladys Evans Grandy, teachers whose working lives were devoted to the Indianapolis Public Elementary Schools.

McFadden Memorial Lecturers

2008	Eric Carle
2007	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. – delivered by Mark Vonnegut
2006	Patricia Cornwell
2005	Marc Brown
2004	John Irving
2003	Louis Sachar
2002	David McCullough
2001	Tomie dePaola
2000	Doris Kearns Goodwin
1999	Judy Blume
1998	Margaret Atwood
1997	Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
1996	Amy Tan
1995	Gary Paulsen
1994	William Styron
1993	Chris Van Allsburg
1992	Gail Godwin
1991	Maurice Sendak
1990	John Updike
1989	David Macaulay
1988	Tom Wolfe
1987	Lloyd Alexander
1986	Kurt Vonnegut
1985	Jean Fritz
1984	James Baldwin
1983	Richard Peck
1982	Gail Sheehy
1981	Scott O’Dell
1980	Norman Mailer
1979	Elaine L. Konigsburg
1978	Saul Bellow