The Man Behind 'Everybody Loves Raymond' & 'LOST' at Ela Public Library Lake Zurich Nov 9 @ 3pm & 'Books & Brunch' in Glenn Ellyn Nov 10 @ 10am

The Man Behind 'Everybody Loves Raymond' & 'LOST' at Ela Public Library Lake Zurich Nov 9 @ 3pm & 'Books & Brunch' in Glenn Ellyn Nov 10 @ 10am

CHICAGO, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Bestselling author Sam Haskell, the man behind ABC-TV's hit series "LOST" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" will be in the Chicago area November 8-10, 2009.

Haskell will be speaking at the Elgin Rotary Club at noon on November 9 followed by a public event at the Ela Public Library in Lake Zurich from 3-4:30pm. He's one of three authors speaking at "Books & Brunch" hosted by the Assistance League of Chicagoland West at The Abbington in Glen Ellyn on November 10.

Haskell is the former Worldwide Head of Television for the William Morris Agency and current Chairman of the Miss America Organization and author of Promises I Made My Mother, published by Random House

Sam Haskell, named one of TV Week's "25 Most Innovative and Influential People in Television of the Last 25 Years," is widely recognized as "the nice guy in Hollywood" -- a reputation that has won him clients ranging from Bill Cosby and Dolly Parton to Whoopi Goldberg and George Clooney. Haskell credits his success to the life lessons his mother taught him. His new memoir chronicles his rise to the top of a cutthroat industry with the integrity, morals and values he learned from her intact.

In Hollywood, Haskell would rely upon honesty, self-reliance, and his mother's teachings of faith to rise swiftly from scoring a gig as a worker in the William Morris mailroom to becoming an agent and then an executive vice president. His capacities for friendship, foresight, and being "thoughtfully political" would allow him to handle client crises like Swoosie Kurtz's deal-breaking insistence on a private bathroom while shooting Sisters, to tense negotiations that nearly scuttled the last year of "Everybody Loves Raymond" and the existence of "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air". Haskell brought a new focus into the flagging Miss America pageant -- in need of a makeover when he took the reins in 2005.

Haskell has appeared on numerous TV programs including "The Today Show", "The CBS Early Show", "Access Hollywood", "Bonnie Hunt", "Morning Joe", "FOX News" and "The Crystal Palace". He was even on the Food Network's "Iron Chef". Visit: http://www.samhaskell.com/ (PROMISES I MADE MY MOTHER, ISBN: 978-0-345-50655-9; $24.00; 256 pp.)

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