Mary Ellen Hannibal Heads up California Book Awards at The Commonwealth Club

The Commonwealth Club of California welcomes a new chair of its California Book Awards selection committee. Mary Ellen Hannibal is a longtime professional journalist and editor, having served as book reviews editor at Esquire and Signature magazines, authored three books, and more. She currently chairs the advocacy and communications efforts of the board for the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Her reviews can be found online at The Readers Review.

Hannibal succeeds Roy Eisenhardt, who headed the jury for a number of years. Eisenhardt has, in addition to serving as moderator for many Commonwealth Club events over the years, served as the president of the Oakland Athletics and executive director of the California Academy of Sciences.

Hannibal has served on the California Book Awards jury for the past five years, where she says she

The Bold Italic Hangs Out in The Club's Library

Visitors to The Commonwealth Club's main offices in San Francisco often find themselves browsing through the hundreds of books in our library as they wait for a program to start or for their friends to arrive.

Now comes word from the web site The Bold Italic (or should we say, The Bold Italic?) that our library has made the grade -- of some sort. We're still not quite sure what, but we think we're glad to be noticed. It's always a pleasure to find book lovers.

Read more at The Bold Italic's Bookmobile.