A Book and Author dinner sponsored by the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History will showcase the authors behind “I Will Not Be Broken” and “The Legal Limit” from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Friday at Cross Creek Country Club.

The museum will present authors Jerry White and Martin Clark during its third annual event, which will begin at 6:30 with a social hour, followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m. and the program featuring the authors at 8:30 p.m.. Books written by both authors will be available for sale during the social hour and a book signing will follow the program. Tickets for the event are $75 and pre-paid registration is required. The deadline is today.

White is the author of “I Will Not Be Broken,” which outlines a program of five steps for coping with disaster. White lost his leg—and almost his life—in a landmine accident.

He is the co-founder of Survivor Corps, and has led efforts to draft and enact human rights and humanitarian laws that promote and protect the rights of 650 million people with disabilities.

White arranged for, and escorted, Diana, Princess of Wales, on her last humanitarian mission, to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and then spearheaded efforts to promote a mine-free Middle East with King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan.

He has also received several awards in recognition of his humanitarian and human rights leadership, including: The first International UNA Humanitarian Prize from Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills; the 2001 Paul G. Hearne/American Association of People with Disabilities Leadership Award; the 2000 Mohammed Amin Humanitarian Award; Brown University's 2000 William Rogers Alumni Award; and the 1997 Nobel Prize for Peace awarded to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

White holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a master’s of business administration from the University of Michigan, and an honorary doctorate from Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Clark is the author of “The Legal Limit,” a courtroom thriller. He graduated from the University Of Virginia School Of Law in 1984, and was appointed as a juvenile and domestic relations district court judge for the Twenty-first Judicial Circuit in 1992. He now serves as a circuit court judge for the Virginia counties of Patrick and Henry and the city of Martinsville, a job he has held since 1995.

His first novel, “The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living” was a New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and a finalist for the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award.

For more information call the Mount Airy Museum at 336-786-4478.