(l-r) Robert Mankoff, Foundation Chairman Thomas Miller and City Librarian Fontayne Holmes

Each year, the Library Foundation hosts a special event honoring donors who have contributed $1,000 or more. In 2006, the event featured a program and dinner at the Central Library with Robert Mankoff, who discussed his new book, "The Cartoons of the New Yorker: History Told Through Humor."
 

Highlights from other Major Donor Events include:
•	Gregory Peck, reading from "To Kill a Mockingbird."
•	A program honoring the Los Angeles premiere of "Ragtime - The Musical," with a reading by E.L. Doctorow from his book upon which the musical was based, and a program by members of the production's cast and creative team.
•	Michael Blake, the Academy Award-winning author of "Dances with Wolves," in "Custer Rides Again!," a one-man show based on his book "Marching to Valhalla: A Novel of Custer's Last Days."
•	Gregory Peck and Louis Jourdan reading from the works of Mark Twain, Guy de Mauspassant, and William Butler Yeats.
•	Peter Mayle discussing the writing of his best-selling book, "French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew."
•	Vartan Gregorian, noted author, educator, and world scholar, discussing his autobiography, "The Road to Home: My Life and Times."
•	Patricia Marshall Gelbart and Alan Bergman performing songs with lyrics Mr. Bergman wrote with his wife, Marilyn Bergman, in "A Celebration of Words and Music," an original production created by Larry Gelbart in collaboration with Mrs. Gelbart and Mr. Bergman.
•	Michael D. Eisner discussing his book, "Camp."

 
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he earliest cookbook housed in the Los Angeles Public Library's Central Library is Francisco Grapaldi's "Parmensis de Partibus Adium," published in 1533.