We close our 30th anniversary gathering with the singular voice of ANNE LAMOTT,

giving the 2024 Frank McCourt Memorial Lecture an appropriate grace note as

both were beloved foundational members of this Conference. Over the past decades,

Lamott’s many fiction and nonfiction books have touched on faith and family and loss

and love, moving millions with their signature humor and honesty. She will reflect

on what books, poetry, and good writing have meant to all of us, and their essential

place in our lives, offering salvation and community, the very reason we are here

together in Sun Valley.