FT. LAUDERDALE – The Broward Public Library Foundation is hosting the 25th edition of Literary Feast, March 15-17, 2013! We are thrilled to be celebrating this incredible milestone and know it would not be possible without the remarkable generosity of the authors who agree to share their passion for literacy with our community.
One of these authors being featured this year’s festival is a native of Jamaica, Lowell Hawthorne.
Lowell Hawthorne is the president and CEO of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill. He has been bestowed with many awards for his entrepreneurial prowess and philanthropy. His most notable achievements include the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Jamaica Observer’s Business Leader Award, an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Medgar Evers College, and the Order of Distinction from his native homeland of Jamaica.
Lowell Hawthorne
In 2005, he established the Mavis and Ephraim Hawthorne Golden Krust Scholarship Foundation, which has awarded numerous scholarships to young persons both in the United States and Jamaica. Lowell also serves as a director of the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry and as Chairman of the Partnership Board of the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies.
The Baker’s Son is a deeply moving account that tells the story of an immigrant family from rural Jamaica that relocated to the Bronx in the 1980s. Starting from humble beginnings, and after weathering several major crises along the way, personal as well as professional, the Hawthorne family has scaled the heights of success to achieve the American Dream to an unprecedented degree. Not content to rest on its well-deserved laurels, the family has, in addition, established an innovative and very successful philanthropic foundation to give back to the community.
Lowell Hawthorne’s book, Baker’s Son
