Author Luncheon with Melanie Benjamin at MLG (formerly The Grille on Laurel)

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Melanie Benjamin, author of "The Swans of Fifth Avenue" (Bantam, $16.00 due Oct. 25) Thursday November 3 at 11:30 a.m. Tickets are $45 for luncheon with book included. Register at Lake Forest Book Store 847-234-4420 Meet New York Times bestselling historical novelist Melanie Benjamin The author of "The Aviator's Wife" returns with a triumphant new novel about the New York's Swans of the 1950s and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley. Truman Capote ignites a literary scandal whose repercussions echo through the years. "The Swans of Fifth Avenue" will seduce and startle readers as it opens the door onto one of America's most sumptuous eras. Melanie Benjamin is the author of "The Aviator's Wife, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb", and "Alice I Have Been". Benjamin lives in Chicago, where she is at work on her next novel.