Mary Hutchings Reed is the recipient of the "Champion for Justice" award from the Legal Assistance Foundation (LAF), and is particularly pleased that Saluting the Sun is the inaugural publication under Ampersand's "Good Reading" imprint. All books sold under this imprint benefit a charity selected by the author. Mary has pledged 10% of the proceeds from the sale of this book to LAF, the largest provider of pro bono civil legal services to the poor and underserved of metropolitan Chicago. Over her career Mary has been active with many legal and social service not-for-profit organizations, inclu...