PEN/Faulkner Luncheon!
Yesterday afternoon, we headed to the new Hungarian Embassy on Rhode Island Avenue in Logan Circle for a special PEN/Faulkner Founding Friends luncheon. We snapped co-host Katherine Stephen with co-chair Willee Lewis, featured author P.J. Crowley and Hungarian Ambassador Réka Szemerkényi.
The embassy is now housed within the Brodhead-Bell-Morton mansion, once home to a U.S. vice president and Alexander Graham Bell. Here, THIS for Diplomats' Lexie Ellis with interior designer Larisa Looby, Fund for Fine Arts' Dr. Edward Wilson and his wife, retired associate dean from Johns Hopkins University Bonnie Wilson.
Attendees heard from the ambassador about Hungarian-U.S. relations, as well as an intimate history of the mansion, prior to hearing from the author. Here PEN/Faulkner member Alma Paty joins Szemerkényi and attorney Myrna Fawcett.
Friends of the author Kathryn Kougias and Harrison Hosker join the author's wife, Paula Kougeas.
Here, author and former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P.J. Crowley discusses his newest book, Red Line, about American foreign policy in the Middle East, specifically in Iraq, focusing on triumphs and failures.
