PAST EVENTS
2025
Friday, March 7
Muskegon Museum of Art
Muskegon, MI
Thursday, March 13, 7pm
Solid State Books
600 H Street NE
Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, March 18
Literary Society of the Desert
Palm Springs, CA
Tuesday, March 25, 1pm
Columbus Museum of Art and the Ohio State University Humanities Institute
Columbus, OH
Thursday, April 3 – First Free Thursday, 6pm
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Reading from Chasing Beauty as part of evening programming
Register
Saturday, April 5, 2pm
9th Annual Maynard Book Festival
Maynard Public Library
Maynard, MA
Thursday, April 10, 7pm
Salem Athenaeum
Joint event with Hamilton Hall
Salem, MA
Wednesday, April 15, 6pm
Harvard Club (private event)
Boston, MA
In conversation with Anthony Amore
Thursday, May 1, 7pm
Darien Library
Darien, CT
Saturday, May 3, 2pm
Camden Public Library
Camden, ME
Tuesday, May 6, 6:15pm reception; 7pm lecture
Save Venice Boston Lecture Series
Boston University/Chilton Club
Thursday, May 15, 7pm
Wellesley Books
Wellesley, MA
Wednesday, May 21, 6pm
In conversation with Michelle Young
about her new book, The Art Spy
Boston Athenaeum
Thursday, May 22, 1pm
American Literature Association
Boston, MA
Wednesday, June 4, 6:30pm reception; 7pm lecture
Marfield Prize Public Lecture
Arts Club of Washington, DC
Register here
2024
Tuesday, March 26
Launch at the National Arts Club
New York City
(Suggested arrival is 7:30PM)
Thursday, March 28, 2-3:30pm
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston
Monday, April 1, 5pm
Massachusetts Historical Society
Boston
Reception at 5pm followed by 6pm book talk & conversation with Catherine Allgor, MHS President
Friday, April 5, 6pm
Silver Unicorn Bookstore
Acton, Massachusetts
Wednesday, April 10, 7pm
Dallas Art Museum
Reading and in conversation with Emily Franklin
Monday, April 15, 6:30pm
Hudson Library and Historical Society
Hudson, Ohio
Thursday, April 18, 6:30pm
Leon Levy Center for Biography
In conversation with Rachel Cohen
CUNY Graduate Center, New York
Wednesday, April 24, 6 – 7:30pm
Cambridge Public Library
Cambridge, MA
Conversation with Sebastian Smee
Thursday, April 25
Mark Twain House and Museum
Hartford
Virtual book talk
Tuesday, April 30, 6pm
Boston.com Book Club
conversation with Lauren Tiedemann of Book Ends
Virtual book event – Register
Thursday, May 2, 6 – 7:15pm
American Inspiration Series
Virtual book talk, Live Broadcast – Register
Tuesday, May 7, 6:30pm
Barnes & Noble
Hingham, MA
Wednesday, May 8, 2:30pm
live radio interview with Jared Bowen
The Culture Show
WGBH 89.7 Boston LIVE streaming
Monday, May 13, 6:30pm doors open; talk at 7pm
Grace Church in New York
Tuesday, May 21, 5:00pm
Cambridge Forum
Virtual book event
Conversation with Mary Stack at Cambridge Forum available on YouTube.
Tuesday, May 28, 5:30pm
Sturgis Public Library
Barnstable, MA
Monday, June 3, 5:30pm
Quin Club
Boston, MA
Tuesday, June 18, 7pm
Harvard Bookstore
Cambridge, MA
In conversation with Megan Marshall
Monday, July 8 at 4pm; Tuesday, July 9 at 11am
The Mount
Lenox, Massachusetts
Saturday, July 20, 4-5:30pm
Edgartown Books at The Carnegie summer author series
The Carnegie Heritage Center
Martha’s Vineyard
Saturday, July 27, 10am
Brewster Book Store
Brewster, MA
Friday, August 2, 5:30 – 7:30pm
26th Annual Summer Book Signing
Hotchkiss Library of Sharon
Sharon, CT
Tuesday, September 10, 5:30 – 7:30pm
Hope Alumni Association sponsored book talk and signing at the American Writers Museum
Chicago
Wednesday, September 11, reception at 5:30pm; lecture at 6pm
Thursday, September 12, 3pm
Hope College
Holland, MI
Tuesday, September 24, 11am
Chilton Club
Boston
Thursday, September 26, 6pm
Boston Athenaeum
Boston
In conversation with Wanda Corn
Wednesday, October 2, 2pm
North Hampton Public Library
North Hampton, NH
Note: Water Street Bookstore in Exeter is offering a 20% discount on copies of Chasing Beauty to anyone who mentions this North Hampton Library event to them.
Thursday, October 3, 6 – 7pm
Concord Art
Concord, MA
Thursday, October 10, 12pm
The Colony Club
New York City
Friday, October 18 – Sunday, October 20
Brattleboro Literary Festival – free admission
Brattleboro, VT
Tuesday, October 29, 6pm
Concord Festival of Authors
Concord, MA
Saturday, November 9 at 3pm
Norfolk Library
Norfolk, CT
Thursday, November 14, 5:30pm
Ottendorfer Library
The New York Public Library
Tuesday, November 19, 5:45pm
The Country Club (private event)
Brookline, MA
Thursday, November 21, 7pm
Book Ends
Winchester, MA
In conversation with Anthony Amore
Saturday, November 23, 1pm
Holiday Reading & Signing
Barnes & Noble
Hingham, MA
Thursday, December 5, 5:30pm
Massachusetts Historical Society
Boston, MA
New England Biography Series
In conversation with Jean Strouse about her new book, Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers
Watch on Youtube
Sunday, December 8, 5pm – Scenes with Music
Hancock Church
Lexington, MA
2023
CLOVER: A NEW PLAY (STAGED PLAY READING)
Saturday, March 18, 2023, 2:00PM – 5:00PM
Learn More
2021
All 2021 events are online unless otherwise noted.
March 31, 2021, 4pm EST
University of Louisville, English Department
Eloquent Objects: Evidence, Imagination, and the Elusive Biographical Subject
April 29, 5:15 – 6:30PM EST
New England Biography Series, Massachusetts Historical Society
Fashioning a Life: How Styles Matters in Biography
panel moderator with Caroline Weber and Channing Joseph
2020
NEA Big Read Lakeshore: Conversation about Writing Non-fiction, Nov. 2020.
2019
March 19, 5:00pm – Massachusetts
Writers in the House: A Conversation with 2019 Writers-in-Residence
The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home
2018
November 1, 5:30 – 7:30pm — Massachusetts
Moderator, New England Biography Seminar: “’No Ideas But in Things’: Writing Lives from Objects”
Panelists: Deborah Lutz, University of Louisville; Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Amherst College; Susan Ware, Independent Scholar
Massachusetts Historical Society
September 6, 5:30pm — Massachusetts
reception at 5:30pm; panel at 6pm
The Education of Henry Adams at 100!
Panelists: Natalie Dykstra, Hope College; William Decker, Oklahoma State University; Natalie Taylor, Skidmore College
Massachusetts Historical Society
March 28, 6:30pm — Massachusetts
A Conversation/Q & A about biography with Megan Marshall
Waltham Public Library
735 Main St. Waltham, MA
2015
March 9 – 23 — Massachusetts
Writer-in-Residence at The Mount
Edith Wharton’s Summer House, Lenox, MA
2014
April 8, 2014 — Massachusetts
Roundtable/Book Signing
St. Botolph Club
Boston, MA
May 17, 2014, 3pm — Massachusetts
Panel, “Writing Boston/Writing New England”
Compleat Biographers Conference, 2014
Boston, MA
May 23, 2014 — Washington DC
“A Figure Alone: The Afterlife of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial to Clover Adams”
American Literature Association Annual Conference
Washington, D.C.
2013
Oct. 3, 9 – 11pm — Michigan
ArtPrize After Event
Book Signing
CitySen Lounge
Grand Rapids, MI
Click here for more information (PDF)
May 18, 4:45pm — New York City
Panelist/Book Signing
Panel: “Almost Famous: The Wives,
Sisters, Fathers, Lovers of the Famous”
Compleat Biographers Conference
May 9, 2013, 12:30pm —Massachusetts
Waltham, MA
Lecture/Book Signing
Brandeis Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
May 4th, 2013, 10am-1pm —Massachusetts
Roundtable
2013 New England American Studies
Association Spring Colloquium
American Studies: What, How, and Why
Suffolk University Poetry Center
Boston, MA
March 22, 2013, 10am —Massachusetts
Panel: “The Persistence of Manuscript Culture
in 19th and 20th Century America”
New England Modern Language Association
Boston, MA
March 7, 2013, 10:30am —Massachusetts
Panelist/Book Signing
Panel: “Sources of Inspiration”
AWP Annual Conference
Boston, MA
January 24, 2013, 7pm —Massachusetts
Lecture/Signing
Cary Memorial Library
Lexington, MA
2012
November 10, 2012, 5pm —Michigan
Reading/Signing
Horizon Books
Traverse City, MI
November 1, 2012, 7:30pm —Kansas
Lecture/Signing
Hall Center for the Humanities
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
October 26, 2012, 4:30pm —Massachusetts
Lecture/Signing
Gordon College
Ken Olsen Science Center Room 124
Wenham, MA
October 9, 2012, 7pm —Massachusetts
Reading/Signing
Manchester Library
Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
October 7, 2012, 1pm — California
Reading/Signing
Book Passage
Corte Madera, CA
October 5, 7:30pm — California
Reading/Signing
Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary and Garden Arts
Berkeley, CA
September 18, 2012, 3:30pm —Michigan
Lecture/Signing
Hope College
Winants Auditorium (Graves Hall)
open to the public
August 22, 2012 — Washington DC
Lecture/Signing
Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C.
Reception at 6pm; dinner at 7pm; lecture at 8pm
August 4, 2012, 1pm
Reading/Signing
Stockbridge Library, Museum & Archives
July 27, 2012 — Massachusetts
Lecture/Signing
Adams National Historical Park
Quincy, MA
July 22, 2012, 3pm — Massachusetts
Lecture/Signing
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
July 16, 2012, 4pm — Massachusetts
Featured Speaker, Summer Lecture Series
The Mount/Estate of Edith Wharton
June 14, 2012, 6pm — Massachusetts
Lecture/Signing
Trinity Church Boston
Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 6:30pm
Discussion
Watertown Book Club
Invitation Only
June 9-10 — Chicago
Panelist/Book Signing
Chicago Tribune Printer’s Row Lit Fest
(I will be a panelist on “The Art of Biography,” with Jim Newton and Stacy Cordery, moderated by Jonathan Eig, Sunday, June 10, 11:30am – 12:15pm, University Center/River Room)
May 31, 2012, 12 – 2pm — Washington DC
Luncheon/Lecture/Signing
Sulgrave Club
Washington D.C.
Invitation only
May 23, 2012, 11:30am
Discussion
MIT Book Club
Invitation only
May 22, 2012, 6:30pm — Massachusetts
Reading/Signing
Sturgis Library
Barnstable, MA
April 26, 2012, 7pm — Massachusetts
Reading/Signing
Beverly Farms Library
Beverly Farms, MA
April 22, 2pm — Massachusetts
Reading/Signing
Woburn Public Library
April 19, 2012, 1 – 3pm — Massachusetts
“Meet the Author” Book Signing
Adams National Historical Park
Quincy, MA
April 17, 5pm — Massachusetts
Lecture/Signing
Wheaton College
Norton, MA
April 12, 6pm — Michigan
Reception/Signing
Hope College Alumni Event
The Charles Hotel, Invitation only
April 4, 7pm — Massachusetts
Reading/Signing
Hingham Public Library
March 29, 7 pm — Massachusetts
Reading/Signing
Waltham Public Library
March 25, 3pm — Massachusetts
Reading/Signing
Concord Bookshop
March 2, 2pm — Massachusetts
Gallery Talk
Massachusetts Historical Society
February 29, 7pm — Massachusetts
Reading/Signing
Harvard Bookstore
February 17, 7pm — Massachusetts
Reading/Signing
Back Pages Books
February 15, 12-1pm — Massachusetts
Lecture/Signing
Boston Athenaeum
February 8, 6 – 8:30pm — Massachusetts
Book Launch/Gallery Show Opening
Massachusetts Historical Society