over the city and the country, he gave to the library of performing arts, to the metropolitan museum, moma and the new york botanical garden and his urging of others to give generously until it hurts was legendary. he wrote a book about getting . you can't take it with you, the art of making and giving money. he was swap, strive, with weighted and inspirational to the end. we continue to thank him and we will miss him. as many of you know, this series presents the work of the dorothy and lewis the coleman center for scholars and writers. our program selects 15 fellows a year for a nine month term at the library with a stipend to cover their expenses. fellows are some of the best and most promising academics, independents, scholars, poets, playwrights, artists and fiction writers at work today. they come here from around the country and the world use the unparalleled collections at this library to write the books of tomorrow. when the fellows published the booksthey write, we try to show them off at a program like this one . if you'd like to know more about events in this series is it and w