BEST-SELLING AUTHOR JEANNETTE WALLS TO SPEAK AT “WOMEN IN POWER” LUNCHEON
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (February 2, 2012) – PNC Bank, a division of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) announces the season’s final “Women in Power” Luncheon to benefit the YWCA of Palm Beach County. Headlining the luncheon on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 will be best-selling author Jeannette Walls.
Her stunning memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times best-seller for over four years, has sold 3.5 million copies in the U.S. alone, has been translated into 22 languages, and is being made into a movie by Paramount. Named one of the “Top Books of the Decade” by Amazon, it has won numerous awards including the Christopher Award, American Library Association’s Alex Award, and Books for Better Living Award.
In The Glass Castle, Walls describes growing up in the desert southwest and a West Virginia mining town with her three siblings and brilliant, unconventional and often irresponsible parents. Overcoming her hardships, Walls moved alone to New York City at age 16, enrolled in Barnard College and eventually became a columnist for New York Magazine and MSNBC.com.
In October 2009 Walls released Half Broke Horses, a true-life novel based on her resilient maternal grandmother; it became an immediate New York Times best-seller. She lives in Virginia with her writer husband, John Taylor.
“We are so pleased to end this season’s “Women in Power” Luncheon Series with such an acclaimed author,” said Craig Grant, Regional President, PNC Bank. “Jeannette Walls’ ability to overcome hardship and turn adversity to her advantage certainly reflects the YWCA’s goal of empowering women and girls.”
The luncheon will be held in Ballrooms A and B at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, located at 650 Okeechobee Boulevard, West Palm Beach. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m., and the luncheon commences at noon. Free valet parking is provided at the Okeechobee entrance.
Reservations for the luncheon are $50 and can be made by calling YWCA of Palm Beach County at 561-640-0050, extension 134.