The New York Public Library presents Meet the Author series with David Evanier, award-winning author of the Tony Bennett biography, "All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett."

Evanier, an award-winning author and former senior editor of the Paris Review looks back at the little-known story of Bennett's life, from his roots in a working class childhood in New York City, to his time in World War II, to his struggles with addiction, to his triumphant return to the American songbook.

The event begins at 2 p.m. at the Columbus Library at 742 10th Ave.