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Linda Johnson Rice became one of the youngest publishing BOOK SIGNING
executives in the country when she was named president and chief
operating officer of the Johnson Publishing Company, publisher of AND STORE
Ebony and Jet magazines. She has been named one of Chicago’s 100
Most Powerful Women and one of the Top 10 Women in Media by
the Chicago Sun-Times. Linda was instrumental in the opening of Book Store Hours
the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History
and Culture in Washington D.C. in September 2016. n Rancho Mirage Library & Observatory
Thursday 3–3:45 pm 8:00 am–4:00 pm, Wednesday and Thursday
7:30 am–1:00 pm, Friday

Van Gordon Sauter was president of FOX news and CBS news You may purchase books, get them signed and then leave
and is the former chairman and now a member of the California them at the pop-up store for later pick up.
boxing commission. Van started his career as a local TV anchorman
for CBS in Chicago and worked as Paris bureau chief, President Payment may be made by credit card, check or cash
of CBS Sports and CBS News and executive vice-president of
CBS Television Group. He is married to Kathleen Brown, former
California State Treasurer and sister of Gov. Jerry Brown.
Thursday 9:30–10:15 am • Thursday 4–4:45 pm

Elizabeth Kabler Sorensen, a Trustee of the Annenberg Foundation
Trust at Sunnylands, is an art advisor and curator. She is the founder
of Skylight Projects, a board member of Desert X Exhibition of Art
and Creative Time in New York. She resides in London with her
husband Johan and three children.
Wednesday 9:30–10:15 am • Wednesday 11:30 am–12:15 pm
Thursday 11:30 am–12:15 pm • Thursday 4–4:45

“There are still more
Johan Sorensen was born in New York and raised in Oslo,
Barcelona and London. He studied Scandinavian history and public libraries in this
literature at University College London before going on to qualify as country than there are
a psychotherapist. He has lived and worked in the USA, Europe and
the Middle East. Sorensen is a founder of Music Support and sits McDonald’s.”
on the board of mental health charities in the U.K. and in the U.S.
— David McCullough
Wednesday 4–4:45 pm • Thursday 11:30 am–12:15 pm
Thursday 2–2:45 pm

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