Harper’s Magazine invites you to a gala benefit celebrating 175 years of fearless journalism and literary excellence.

Honoring

A. G. SULZBERGER, Chairman and Publisher, The New York Times 

Recipient of the inaugural James C. Goodale First Amendment Award

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MARILYNNE ROBINSON, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Gilead

Recipient of the inaugural Lewis H. Lapham Award for Literary Excellence

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2025
AT SIX O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING
583 PARK AVENUE
NEW YORK CITY
Cocktail attire, black-tie optional

Benefit Committee

Co-Chairs

Mary & David Boies
 Toni Goodale

Floyd Abrams
Rosa Brooks
Tina Brown
Leslie Cockburn
Michelle Goldberg
Shawn Green
Randall L. Kennedy
Nicholas Kristof
Jackson Lears
John R. MacArthur
Terry McDonell
Lynn Nesbit
Burt Neuborne
Peter L. W. Osnos
Sally Quinn
Dan Rather
Maureen White & Steven Rattner
Shirley Rosenthal
Elizabeth Samet
Orville Schell
Bob & Lisa Semple
Lynn Sherr
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.
Rosanna Warren
Antonio Weiss

Literary Committee

Annie Dillard
Jonathan Franzen
Katie Kitamura
Nicole Krauss
Hari Kunzru
Rachel Kushner
Jonathan Lethem
Cynthia Ozick
Francine Prose
Zadie Smith
Art Spiegelman
John Jeremiah Sullivan
John Edgar Wideman
Joy Williams

For sponsorship opportunities, click here for more information or contact gala@harpers.org.

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