The Folger Shakespeare Library was the site of a gala celebration to benefit thePEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction on October 1. Each year the award honorsthe best of published works by contemporary American novelists, who readfrom a selected topic. This year’s theme explored was “Secrets and Lies.”Preceding the dinner catered by Design Cuisine, writers Ann Beattie, Peter HoDavies, Beth Henley, Matthew Klam, Wally Lamb, Alison Lurie, ValerieMartin, James Salter, A.J. Verdelle, Colson Whitehead, Richard Wiley, JohnRolfe Gardiner, and Joyce Carol Oates read from their works.