About this Event
Join us at the Central Library for a sneak peak of The One Ann Only: Wit and Wisdom from Texas Governor Ann Richards. A panel featuring author Sarah Bird, photographer Ave Bonar, photojournalist and philanthropist Lynne Dobson, and Margaret Justus, founder of the Ann Richards Legacy Project, will discuss the life and legacy of the former Texas Governor.
The One Ann Only: Wit and Wisdom from Texas Governor Ann Richards features 33 memorable Richards one-liners and 75 images of her throughout her life by 33 noted photographers. Packed with a Texas-sized serving of inspiration, the colorful hardback is an essential primer on the life and times of the governor. It includes snippets of Richards’ life experiences and a thorough timeline of her accomplishments, beginning with her fight to transform state government to match the diversity of Texas.
The book features both a foreword by award-winning author Sarah Bird and an afterword by political historian Mary Beth Rogers, who twice served as Richards’ campaign manager.
A select number of advanced copies of The One Ann Only will be available for purchase at the event. Books can also be pre-ordered online through the University of Texas Press.
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ABOUT SARAH BIRD: Sarah is the author of 11 novels, including most recently Last Dance on the Starlight Pier. In addition to her novels, she has written screenplays for television and magazine articles for national magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, Texas Monthly and the Chicago Tribune. During her 10-year screenwriting career, she worked for Paramount, CBS, Warner Brothers, National Geographic, ABC and TNT, as well as several independent producers. In 2015, she was selected for the Meryl Streep/Oprah Winfrey Screenwriters’ Lab. Sarah and her husband, George Jones, live in Austin, Texas, with their son and, arguably, the cutest corgi in the world.
ABOUT LYNNE DOBSON: Lynne Dobson is a philanthropist, business owner and photojournalist who lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, Greg Wooldridge. They have two adult children and a grandson. A graduate of University of Texas, Austin, she had a 25-year career as a photojournalist for newspapers in Ohio, California and Austin. For the last 15 years, she has worked part-time as a humanitarian photographer for many global organizations she passionately supports in East Africa. Lynne serves on her family's charity, Tres Grace Family Foundation and the Tejemos Foundation with her husband. They support numerous organizations in Texas, the U.S. and internationally, in the realms of civil rights and constitutional freedoms, journalism, public radio, the musical arts, education, museums, food and housing insecurity, parks expansion and preservation and reproductive healthcare. Lynne is devoted to Terrewode Women’s Fund where she helps guide communication, marketing and fundraising for Uganda’s first women’s obstetric fistula treatment hospital, which opened in 2019.
ABOUT MARGARET JUSTUS: Margaret Justus is an Austin communications consultant and a former broadcast news journalist who grew up in Kansas City and has lived in Texas for 34 years - 20 years in Austin and 14 years in Houston. Justus founded the Ann Richards Legacy Project in 2021, a nonprofit that created and displayed more than 300 Ann Richards street banners in major Texas cities across the state. The Pentagram-designed banners honored the 30th anniversary of the inauguration of Texas Governor Ann Richards, for whom Justus served as deputy press secretary from 1989-1994. Justus then collaborated with Austin philanthropists, Lynne Dobson and Greg Wooldridge and Pentagram to publish The One Ann Only: Wit and Wisdom from Texas Governor Ann Richards. Margaret enjoys spending time two adult children, Mariah and Marshall. She enjoys competing in 5K races, cycling, kayaking, volunteering at her episcopal church and singing in two local bands with her partner, NPR correspondent, John Burnett.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Austin Central Library, Austin Public Library, 710 West Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, United States
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