The American Association of University Women, Los Altos/Mountain View Branch, has scheduled three nationally known local authors to speak at a luncheon 11:30 a.m. March 8 at Michaels at Shoreline, 2960 Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View. Their books will be available for purchase and signing.

Mildred Kalish’s “Little Heathens” (Bantam, 2007) was named one of 2007’s best books by the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor and the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Ann Packer’s best-selling first novel, “The Dive from Clausen’s Pier” (Knopf, 2002), received a Great Lakes Book Award, an American Library Association Award and a Kate Chopin Literary Award.

Joshua Spanogle, a bioethicist and medical resident at Stanford University, has written two medical mystery best-sellers, “Isolation Ward” (Delacorte Press, 2006) and “Flawless” (Delacorte, 2007).

Cost for the luncheon is $38 ($20 is tax-deductible).

For reservations and more information, call 941-2225 by Monday.