Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, SuperSoul 100 Members, O, The Oprah
Magazine Books Editor, Leigh Haber,
and more setting sail on July
15
SEATTLE, June 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Holland America Line and O, The Oprah Magazine's
Share the Adventure Cruise is adding Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Elizabeth Strout, comedian
Rita Rudner and O, The Oprah
Magazine books editor Leigh
Haber to the list of visionaries and authorities who will be
on board the July 15 sailing to
Alaska. In addition to having the
opportunity to enjoy performances by Rudner, guests aboard the
ms Eurodam will also be able to join O's Onboard Book
Club where Haber will lead the discussion as Strout shares the
process and inspiration behind her latest novel, Anything Is
Possible.
Holland America Line previously
announced that Oprah Winfrey and
O, The Oprah Magazine editors Gayle
King, Lucy Kaylin and
creative director Adam Glassman will
be on board, along with SuperSoul 100 Members' Grammy Award-winning
singer and songwriter India.Arie, fitness evangelist Angela M. Davis, and author, activist and
motivational speaker Glennon Doyle
Melton.
"We're excited that a highly decorated author like Elizabeth and
books editor Leigh are joining the incredible list of talent on
this sailing and that our guests will have the opportunity to hear
insights about Elizabeth's latest novel and writing approach," said
Orlando Ashford, president of
Holland America Line. "And Rita is always a guest favorite when she
entertains on board, and we're thrilled that she's joining us again
as a special addition to this once-in-a-lifetime cruise."
Guests who wish to purchase Strout's New
York Times bestseller Anything Is Possible before
cruising can visit the Random House website at
http://bit.ly/2r82EG3.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer
Prize–winning author of Olive
Kitteridge, also nominated for the National Book
Critic's Circle Award; the #1 New York
Times bestseller My Name Is Lucy Barton, which
was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Burgess Boys, a
New York Times bestseller;
Abide With Me, a national bestseller and Book Sense pick;
and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Chicago Tribune
Heartland Prize and the Los Angeles
Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.
Strout has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the
Orange Prize in England. Her short
stories have been published in a number of magazines, including
O, The Oprah Magazine and The New Yorker.
Books Editor Leigh
Haber
For the past five years, Haber has been books editor for O, The
Oprah Magazine, and a coordinator of Oprah's Book
Club. She began her career in book publishing as a news aide
for the Washington Post's Book World. For years she was
a publicity director for various publishing houses, and thereafter
held senior editorial positions at Scribner, Hyperion, and
Rodale. Over the years, she's worked with numerous authors,
among them Alice Walker,
Gloria Naylor, Steve Martin, Al
Gore, Terry Gross,
Lou Reed and others.
Award-Winning Comedian Rita Rudner
Rita Rudner is a multitalented star
who began her career as a Broadway dancer in Follies and
Mack & Mabel before branching out to stand-up comedy.
Over the past three decades she has appeared in a variety of
television shows including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny
Carson, as well as in a number of award-winning comedy specials
and movies.
A house-filling favorite in Las
Vegas since she opened as one of the hottest tickets in town
in June 2000, Rudner is known for her
epigrammatic one-liners. Over the course of a 14-year run and
2,000-plus shows, she has sold one-and-a-half-million tickets and
become the longest-running solo comedy show in the history of
Las Vegas. She has been named
Las Vegas' Comedian of the Year
nine years in a row and in 2006 received The Nevada Ballet's Woman
of the Year Award.
Rudner's first solo HBO special, Rita
Rudner's One Night Stand, was nominated for several
awards, as was her eponymous English BBC television show that later
appeared in the United States on
A&E. In 2008 Rita Rudner:
Live From Las Vegas was PBS's first-ever stand-up comedy
special. In 2012 Rudner and her husband, Martin, wrote and
performed The Rita Rudner Show for BBC radio in London. She also appeared in the Showtime
comedy special Rita Rudner and
Three Potential Ex-Husbands.
Holland America Line and O,
The Oprah Magazine Partnership
Holland America Line and O, The
Oprah Magazine's exclusive partnership unites the
soul-stirring power of travel with O's
deep commitment to connection and personal
growth. Oprah Winfrey; O, The Oprah
Magazine editor-in-chief Lucy
Kaylin, editor-at-large Gayle
King; and creative director Adam
Glassman will join the O, The Oprah Magazine Share
the Adventure Cruise to Alaska on July
15th. Four additional O, The Oprah
Magazine Adventure of Your Life sailings featuring
SuperSoul 100 Members to be announced and
O Magazine-inspired activities will depart
Nov. 29, 2017, 11-day Caribbean; March 3,
2018, seven-day Caribbean;
Aug. 11, 2018, seven-day Alaska; and Oct. 28,
2018, seven-day Caribbean.
In addition, more than 300 Holland America Line cruises sailing
in North America from August 2017 through 2018 will offer a variety of
engaging activities developed with the magazine's editors including
meditation, exercise, healthy eating, an onboard book reading room
and more.
Fares on the July 15th
Share the Adventure seven-day Alaska cruise start at $999 per person, double occupancy. Taxes, fees
and port expenses are additional.
For more information, contact a travel professional, call
1-877-SAIL-HAL (1-877-724-5425) or visit hollandamerica.com.
Editor's note: Photos are available at
https://www.cruiseimagelibrary.com/c/zappkmmp.
Find Holland America Line on Twitter, Facebook and the Holland
America Blog. Access all social media outlets via the Online
Communities quick link on the home page at hollandamerica.com.
About Holland America Line [a division of Carnival
Corporation and plc (NYSE: CCL and CUK)]
Holland America Line's fleet of 14
ships offers more than 500 cruises to more than 400 ports in 98
countries, territories or dependencies around the world. From
shorter getaways to 113-day itineraries, the company's cruises
visit all seven continents with highlights including Antarctica explorations, South America circumnavigations and exotic
Australia/New Zealand and Asia voyages; four annual Grand Voyages; and
popular sailings to the Caribbean,
Alaska, Mexico, Canada/New England, Bermuda, Europe and the Panama Canal. The line welcomed
ms Koningsdam in 2016 and has a second Pinnacle-class
ship, ms Nieuw Statendam, to be delivered in
December 2018. A third Pinnacle-class
ship, due for delivery in 2021, recently was announced.
The company is undergoing $300
million in brand enhancements to secure its position as the
leader in premium cruising. Fleetwide, the ships feature innovative
initiatives and a diverse range of enriching experiences focused on
destination immersion and personalized travel. Guests can expand
their knowledge through an exclusive partnership with O, The Oprah
Magazine; during an America's Test Kitchen show; at Explorations
Café presented by The New York Times;
and by taking a Digital Workshop powered by Windows. Outstanding
entertainment fills each evening at venues including Lincoln Center
Stage, Billboard Onboard and B.B.
King's Blues Club. The dining experience can be savored at a
variety of restaurants with menus that feature selections from
Holland America Line's esteemed Culinary Council that comprises
world-famous chefs who design dishes exclusively for our
guests.
About O, The Oprah Magazine
O, The Oprah
Magazine (oprah.com/omagazine) encourages confident,
intelligent women to reach for their dreams, express their
individual style and make wise choices, guided by the values of one
of the most charismatic women in the world, O Editorial
Director Oprah Winfrey. With an
emphasis on personal growth, the magazine inspires, addressing
every aspect of a woman's life — the material, the intellectual and
the emotional — and deeply connects with more than 18 million
consumers every month (MRI, Spring 2016, Comscore multi-platform,
December 2016). From the moment it launched, O, The Oprah
Magazine carved out a unique position in the marketplace and
created an entirely new category in women's magazines, delivering
the Live Your Best Life message through thoughtful, ever-evolving
content and the trusted advice provided by well-known experts.
Throughout the years, O, The Oprah Magazine has been
recognized with the publishing industry's highest honor, winning
multiple American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) awards. Follow
O, The Oprah Magazine on Twitter at @O_Magazine and
Instagram at @OprahMagazine.
O, The Oprah Magazine is a co-venture between Harpo
Print, LLC and Hearst Magazines, a unit of Hearst, one of the
nation's largest diversified media and information companies. With
21 titles in the U.S., Hearst is the leading publisher of monthly
magazines in terms of total paid circulation (AAM 2H 2014),
reaching 78 million readers (Spring 2016 MRI/GfK at 79.5 million)
and 54 million site visitors each month (comScore), with a social
media following of 115.5 million.
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