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BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania — Mary Kay Andrews, Pam Jenoff, Kathy Hepinstall and Emily Fridlund will be among the featured authors at the United for Libraries , from 2-4 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, Jan. 23 at the 2017 Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta.

A light offering of tea, finger sandwiches and a variety of sweet treats will be served. A book signing will follow. United for Libraries will recognize the winners of the 2016 National Friends of Libraries Week Awards during the program.

(Macmillan) is the New York Times bestselling author of “The Weekenders,” “Beach Town,” “Save the Date,” “Ladies’ Night,” “Spring Fever,” “Summer Rental,” “The Fixer Upper,” “Deep Dish,” and more. A former journalist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, she lives in Atlanta.

(“The Orphan’s Tale,” MIRA/Harlequin, Feb. 2017) was born in Maryland and raised in southern New Jersey, outside of Philadelphia. She attended George Washington University in Washington D.C., where she earned a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in international affairs, with minors in history and Japanese. She then received her master's in history from Cambridge University in England

(“The Book of Polly,” Pamela Dorman Books/Penguin Random House, March 2017) is the author of five previous novels. She is also a top level advertising creative director who has written award-winning campaigns for corporate clients from Apple to Nike. She grew up in Spring, Texas, near the Louisiana border, and now lives in Portland, Ore., and Santa Barbara, Calif.. Polly is based, in part, on Hepinstall's own mother, who has as wicked a tongue as her fictional counterpart.

Emily Fridlund (“History of Wolves,” Atlanta Monthly Press/Perseus, Jan. 2017) grew up in Minnesota and currently resides in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Her fiction has appeared in a variety of journals, including Boston Review, Zyzzyva, and Painted Bride Quarterly. The opening chapter of “History of Wolves” won the 2013 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for fiction, and Fridlund's collection of stories, “Catapult,” won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and will be published by Sarabande in fall 2017.

Advance tickets to the Gala Author Tea cost $60, $55 for United for Libraries division members. Onsite tickets cost $65, if available. Advance purchase is recommended. Event code: UNI3.

For more information on purchasing tickets and other United for Libraries events and meetings at the Midwinter Meeting, visit For information about registering for Midwinter, visit .

United for Libraries: The Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations, is a division of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app that supports those who govern, promote, advocate, and fundraise for libraries. United for Libraries brings together library Trustees, advocates, Friends, and Foundations into a partnership that creates a powerful force for libraries in the 21st century. For more information or to join United for Libraries, visit the or contact Jillian Wentworth at (312) 280-2161 or jwentworth@ala.org.

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