I am excited to be on a panel at the Massachusetts Library Association Meeting this year with two other local authors, Christopher Castellani and Claire Messud. Michael Colford, of Boston Public Library will be our moderator. It should be a very lively discussion.
Thursday, April 25, 2013: 11:15am – 12:30pm
Authors, Authors, Authors!: Three Local Authors Strut Their Stuff!
Massachusetts is fortunate to have a plethora of fantastic authors creating work locally. This panel features three of our best, all in various stages of their writing careers. From a debut novelist, to a New York Times best-selling author, our panel of novelists will fascinate you with stories of their writing lives and their latest works.
Speakers:
Christopher Castellanni is the artistic director of Grub Street, one of the country’s leading non-profit creative writing centers. He is the author of two previous critically-acclaimed novels, A Kiss from Magdalena, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in 2004, The Saint of Lost Things, a BookSense Notable Book that was long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2006.
Laura Harrington‘s award winning plays, musicals, operas, and radio plays have been widely produced in the U.S., Canada, and abroad. Harrington is a two time winner of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Award in playwriting and a two time winner of the Clauder Competition. Her first novel, Alice Bliss, was the award winner in fiction in the 2012 Massachusetts Book Awards.
Claire Messud’s new novel, The Woman Upstairs, will be published in late April by Knopf. Her previous novel,last novel, The Emperor’s Children, was a New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Her first novel, When the World Was Steady, and her book of novellas, The Hunters, were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and her second novel, The Last Life, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and Editor’s Choice at The Village Voice. All four books were named New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Messud has been awarded Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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