From the Venetian Room in the Fairmont Hotel at 950 Mason Street atop Nob Hill, SEDGE THOMSON welcomes:

Actor
PETER GALLAGHER
who achieved fame in Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and later starred as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series The O.C.
Author
MARK BOWDEN
critically acclaimed author of Black Hawk Down, with his latest novel Worm: The First Digital World War.
Author
ISMET PRCIC
with his debut novel Shards, about a young Bosnian who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California.