Six Bridges Book Festival: Mary Lisa Gavenas

Moderated by Amy Bradley Hole

Six Bridges Book Festival presents Mary Lisa Gavenas (Selling Opportunity). Moderated by Amy Bradley Hole.

Mary Lisa Gavenas

Mary Lisa Gavenas, author of Color Stories: Behind the Scenes of America’s Billion-Dollar Beauty Industry, was named a Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography and has been cited as an expert commentator on the beauty business and female entrepreneurship (CBS, NBC, CNN, BBC-4). A former senior editor at Glamour, InStyle, and Mirabella, and columnist for Elle, she has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, Fast Company, and other national outlets.

The only woman in Forbes’ Greatest Business Stories of All Time and the first woman to chair a company on the New York Stock Exchange, Mary Kay Ash has a life story that reads like a Barbara Taylor Bradford novel. Based on fifteen years of research, Selling Opportunity gives us a page-turning rags-to-riches story set against the background of direct selling in all its overstated, over-the-top glory. Here, for the first time, is the definitive history of a peculiarly American industry and a mid-century mindset that ennobled extreme self-reliance, sticking to your guns, and blind faith in the American dream.

ASL interpretation will be provided for all Six Bridges sessions held in CALS Ron Robinson Theater. ASL interpretation for sessions at other CALS locations and Six Bridges venues (including CALS Main Library) will be provided by request. To request ASL interpretation, please submit an ASL Interpretation Request form.

CALS will validate parking in the CALS Library Square surface lot and the CALS Parking Deck. The entrance to the surface lot is located on 2nd Street near River Market Ave. The entrance to the parking deck is located on Rock Street and can be accessed from President Clinton Ave. Street parking is also available throughout the River Market District (free after 6pm and on weekends).