Author Event with Susan Lucci/La Lucci

Join Anderson’s Bookshop for an author event with Susan Lucci, to celebrate the release of La Lucci on Monday, February 9th at 7:30 pm at Wentz Concert Hall on the campus of North Central College.

Event Format

We will begin checking you in approximately 60 minutes before the start time. Following a presentation and Q&A with the author, the photo line will form in number order with the following guidelines:

• All books will be pre-signed.

• Posed photo with your camera taken by our staff.

Pre-registration is required for this event because space is limited.

More about La Lucci:  

The moving follow-up to Susan Lucci's New York Times bestseller, All My Life, this stunning new memoir includes nearly one hundred never-before-seen photos.

The long-running Queen of Daytime television, Susan Lucci--who has gone by the endearment, La Lucci, since her earliest days on the set of All My Children--knows a thing or two about life, love, joy, adventure, and remaking oneself after loss, both personally and professionally.

While Erica Kane, her character on the daytime drama All My Children, had married eleven times during her forty-one years on air, Susan had been married only once--to the love of her life, Helmut Huber. When Helmut passed away unexpectedly in March of 2022, she faced one of the greatest challenges of her life--overcoming grief and striving to live with hope and joy again while still honoring her memories.

This is a book that celebrates love, friendships, those we admire up close or from afar, the influential teachers in our lives, the wonder of family, parenting and grandparenting, the magic of theatre, fulfilled dreams, grace, freshly baked apples, Alpine cheese, home renovations, modern medicine, faith, miracles large and small, mending one's heart, and moving forward. But most of all, this is a book written with gratitude.

It is with a tender mix of candor, humor, and vulnerability that Lucci reflects on both her many life blessings and her biggest hurdles. At turns entertaining, funny, sad, healing, and genuinely informative, her stories are not just about mourning loss, they are about grabbing and living life with gusto at every stage ... on every stage.

About the Author: 

Susan Lucci is the most famous face in daytime television history and held audiences spellbound for over forty years as the iconic Erica Kane on ABC’s award-winning daytime drama All My Children. In May of 1999, on her nineteenth nomination, she won the Emmy for Best Actress, a historic moment for all of television, receiving the longest standing ovation in television history. Beyond daytime drama, Lucci also starred in Lifetime’s Devious Maids, and Hot in Cleveland, played a role in the film Joy, and hosted Investigation Discovery’s Deadly Affairs. A versatile performer, she has appeared on popular shows like Dancing with the Stars, hosted Saturday Night Live, and made her Broadway debut in the lead role as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun. Her first memoir, All My Life, was released in 2011 and immediately topped the New York Times bestseller list. Susan most recently finished a successful run starring in the off-Broadway hit show My First Ex-Husband and appears in Jonah Hill’s Apple TV+ film Outcome.

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