Jenna Bush Hager / COURTESY PHOTO
Jenna Bush Hager / COURTESY PHOTO
Guests at Monday night’s Ringling College Library Association Platinum Dinner might expect the daughter of a former president to talk politics.

But Jenna Bush Hager instead is likely to focus on her passions, which are literature and literacy.

Hager, one of the twin daughters of George W. and Laura Bush, has spent the years since her father was in the White House teaching, working and traveling as an intern for UNICEF, getting married, working for the “Today Show” as an education correspondent, and last April having her first child, a daughter named Mila.

She’s also written two books, one a young-adult title called “Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope,” based on the friendship she formed with a 17-year-old mother with AIDS; and a children’s picture book, “Read All About It!” that she co-wrote with her mother.

Her speech Monday night kicks off the RCLA’s Town Hall lecture series; her father will deliver two sold-out lectures Tuesday at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.

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