Love of Literacy Luncheon 2027
2027-03-02 11:00 - 14:00 UTC | Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL, 33401, United States
Love of Literacy Luncheon
Thank you to our Presenting Sponsor

Tuesday, March 2, 2027
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
We are thrilled to announce that the 36th Annual Love of Literacy Luncheon will take place on March 2, 2027, and we hope you will join us for this inspiring community celebration!
As the Coalition’s signature fundraising event, the luncheon brings together community leaders, advocates, and supporters to raise awareness of critical literacy needs and generate essential funding for literacy programs serving children and families throughout Palm Beach County — from Jupiter to Boca Raton to Belle Glade.
Guests will enjoy a memorable afternoon featuring a special guest speaker, inspiring stories of impact, and opportunities to support life-changing literacy initiatives through sponsorships and ticket purchases.
Check back soon for the announcement of our featured speaker.

35th Annual Love of Literacy Luncheon
Held on April 9, 2026

New York Times Bestselling Author
Tayari Jones
Thank you to everyone who attended our 35th Annual Love of Literacy Luncheon, featuring New York Times Bestselling author Tayari Jones, on April 9 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. This is Coalition’s signature event, bringing the community together to increase awareness of significant literacy needs and to raise crucial funds to support literacy programs serving our community from Jupiter to Boca Raton to Belle Glade.
Tayari Jones is the author of award-winning novels, including An American Marriage, which is an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and named a notable book by the New York Times and The Washington Post, as well as one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by the New York Times. An American Marriage was also awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Prize, and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Fiction. It has been published in over 20 countries, with more than a million copies in print around the world.
Jones has written a new unforgettable novel Kin, (released Feb 24, 2026), that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy. A novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.
Thank You to our 2026 Sponsors
Presenting Sponsor Bank of America; Platinum Sponsor: Brenda Medore; Diamond Sponsors: Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly, GL Homes, Karen Rogers; Gold Sponsors: First Horizon Foundation, Gentle Medicine Associates, Inc., Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Kosinski Family Foundation, Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A., The Palm Beach Post, SCAPS Medical, Cynthia F. Sulzberger; Silver Sponsors: Akerman, LLP, Cozen O’Connor, P.A., Florida Atlantic University, Barbara and Len Gray, Stephanie Kahlert, Lynn University, The Lynch Family & Plastridge Insurance, Nason Yeager Gerson Harris & Fumero, P.A., Denise Rivas, Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., U.S. Bank, WPTV 5. Thank you to the luncheon, co-chairs, Telsula C. Morgan of Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A. and Lindsay M. Reinhart of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley.
Click on the image below to view the photos from the 2026 event

“It’s among Tayari’s many gifts that she can touch us soul to soul with her words.” —Oprah Winfrey | “Kin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I’m always hoping to find: smart and funny and deftly profound. This is Tayari Jones’s very best work.” —Ann Patchett |

Watch the announcement of Oprah’s Book Club selection of Tayari Jones’ newest book release, Kin, on CBS Mornings.

Listen to an interview with Tayari Jones on NPR as she discusses her new book release, Kin.

“We are thrilled to celebrate literacy with many business and community leaders in the county at this inspiring event. There is a great literacy need with adults and children in our community, and support from all who attend goes a long way to helping the Literacy Coalition provide and support life-changing literacy programs.”
— Kristin Calder, Literacy Coalition CEO

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

34th Love of Literacy Luncheon
Thank you to our supporters and volunteers who joined us on April 10, 2025, at the Literacy Coalition’s 34th Love of Literacy Luncheon, presented by Bank of America, featuring New York Times and USA Today Best Selling author Victoria Christopher Murray. It was an inspiring and exciting day in celebration of literacy.
Ms. Murray is the author of more than 30 novels including two she co-wrote with Marie Benedict: The Personal Librarian about the remarkable story of J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who hid her true identity to leave a lasting legacy and The First Ladies about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune – an unlikely friendship that changed the world. Her latest book, Harlem Rhapsody, was released Feb. 4, 2025, and is inspired by the life of Jessie Redmon Fauset, the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance. With more than 3 million books in print, Victoria is one of the country’s top African American contemporary authors. Love0 Share Tweet Share
