Marymount Manhattan College:
Literary World pays Tribute to Evan Hunter, aka Ed McBain

The Columbus Club was the setting for the March 12th Eighth Anniversary celebration dinner of Marymount Manhattan College’s renowned Writing Center. Director Lewis Burke Frumkes, author and host of the Lewis Burke Frumkes Show on WPAT, gathered an admixture of the best writers in town with the most important players in town to thank them all for their patronage. Guest of honor was Evan Hunter, aka Ed McBain, who spoke for the first time of his recent bout with throat cancer from which he is recovering. His short talk was by turns hilarious, brave, intelligent and inspiring. The crowd, consisting of President of Marymount, Judson Shaver, and writers, Mary and Carol Higgins Clark, Nelson DeMille, Roy Blount, Jr., Lawrence Block, Gay and Nan Talese, Daphne Merkin, Nicola Kraus, and Emma McLaughlin (the nannies from the “Nanny Diaries”), Ben Cheever, National Book Award winner Julia Glass, Cynthia Ozick, Bel Kaufman, Grace Mirabella, Tama Janowitz, Alan Furst, and many others, gave Hunter a standing ovation. Among patrons enjoying the evening could be seen Mortimer and Mimi Levitt, Tina Flaherty, Richard and Iris Abrons, Virginia Mailman, Jeanette and Alex Sanger, Rosalind Whitehead, James and Nancy Berry-Hill, Jones Yorke and Betsy Bartlett, Eugene and Terry Lang, and Karen Harp. Hunter exhorted everyone to find their voices, and use them. There is nothing more precious or important.

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