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SUMMARY:Wildlife in Focus: Matt Patterson’s Journey in Art and Conservation
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Walden Woods Project\, as part of The Concord Festival of Authors\, for a presentation from Matt Patterson! \nAbout Matt Patterson: \nThere’s almost no distance Matt Patterson won’t go\, almost nothing he won’t do\, to learn all he can about the subjects he paints to make them as accurate and lifelike as possible. He’s pulled giant snapping turtles out of Boston’s muddy river\, worked with the Turtle Survival Alliance experts to survey radiated tortoises in Madagascar’s Spiny Forest and trapped and tagged turtles in the rainforest of Belize. He has illustrated several books including his first book\, “Freshwater Fish of the Northeast”\, written by his father. He also illustrated “The Book of Turtles”\, which won seven national awards including a Sibert Honor\, the NY Times bestselling “Of Time and Turtles”\, and the recently released picture book “The True and Lucky Life of a Turtle”. The latter three books were written by Sy Montgomery. Matt is a member of Artists For Conservation\, Society of Animal Artists and a Fellow in The Explorer’s Club. His work has been featured in American Art Collector Magazine\, Yankee Magazine\, Fine Art Connoisseur and has won numerous awards including twice winning the Roger Tory Peterson Wild American Art award and the AFC Medal of Excellence. \nAbout the presentation: \nAt a young age\, Matt was fascinated with nature and art\, and he has traveled all over to research his subjects. An important part of his illustration process is seeing and learning about his subjects in the wild. In his presentation\, he will discuss his experiences working in the field\, conservation\, his art\, and researching the three most recent books he worked on with the award-winning author Sy Montgomery. \nWhen: Wednesday\, October 21\, 6:15-8:00 pm EST. \nWhere: The Walden Woods Project (address provided upon registration) \nDoors will open at 6:15 pm for a wine and cheese reception. The presentation will begin at 7:00 pm.
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SUMMARY:Concord Festival of Authors: Breakfast with the Authors at the Colonial Inn - TICKETED EVENT
DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present the 2026 Breakfast with the Authors panel\, which will take place at Concord’s Colonial Inn\, 48 Monument Square. The event will be moderated by local author and physician\, Dr. Suzanne Koven. \nCFA Breakfast tickets can be purchased at the Barrow Bookstore as well as online on the CFA website. This event includes a full buffet breakfast at Concord’s Colonial Inn. \n* Please note that the room is not handicap accessible. Please contact the Colonial inn for assistance. \nCastellani and bookChristopher Castellani is the author of five books\, most recently the novel Leading Men\, for which he received Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, MacDowell\, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Leading Men was published by Viking Penguin\, and is currently being adapted for film by Peter Spears (Oscar-winning producer of Nomadland) and Searchlight Pictures. The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story\, a collection of essays on point of view in fiction\, was published in 2016 by Graywolf Press.. His first novel\, A Kiss from Maddalena (Algonquin\, 2003) won the Massachusetts Book Award; its follow-up\, The Saint of Lost Things (Algonquin\, 2005)\, was a BookSense (IndieBound) Notable Book; the final novel in the trilogy\, All This Talk of Love (Algonquin\, 2013)\, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Literary Award. Christopher is currently the Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University\, on the faculty and academic board of the Warren Wilson MFA program\, and the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Last Seen was published on February 17th\, 2026 by Viking Penguin. \nGish JenGish Jen’s work has been included in The Best American Short Stories five times\, including in The Best American Short Stories of the Century. A fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, she has received NEA\, Guggenheim\, and Radcliffe fellowships\, a Lannan Literary Award\, and a five-year Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award. Her short work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The New York Times\, and many anthologies; she has taught at Harvard University\, NYU Shanghai\, and other universities. Bad Bad Girl is her sixth novel; her other books include two collections of short stories and two works of non-fiction\, including publication of her Massey Lectures in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University. \nHester Kaplan is the author of two story collections\, The Edge of Marriage (University of Georgia Press\, and Norton)\, which received The Flannery O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction; and Unravished (Ig Publishing); the novels The Tell (HarperCollins) and Kinship Theory (Little\, Brown). Her stories and essays have appeared in Agni Review\, Ploughshares\, Story\, Glimmer Train\, Southwest Review\, and Indiana Review\, among other journals and publications. Her work has been widely anthologized\, including in The Best American Short Stories\, Creature Needs\, Providence Noir\, Beautiful Flesh\, and others. Recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships\, two fellowships in literature from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts\, she was named Mark Twain Fellow for her new book\, Twice Born (Catapult\, 2025). Her work has received the McGinnis Ritchie Award for Non-fiction\, The Salamander Award for Fiction\, among other awards and recognitions. \nSuzanne Koven\, longtime host of the CFA Breakfast with the Authors\, received her B.A. in English literature from Yale and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins. She also holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars. In 2019 she was named inaugural Writer in Residence at Mass General. Her essays\, articles\, blogs\, and reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe\, The New England Journal of Medicine\, The Lancet\, The New Yorker.com\, Psychology Today\, The L.A. Review of Books\, The Virginia Quarterly\, STAT\, and other publications. Her monthly column “In Practice” appeared in the Boston Globe and won the Will Solimene Award for Excellence in Medical Writing from the American Medical Writers Association in 2012. Her interview column\, “The Big Idea\,” appears at The Rumpus. Suzanne conducts workshops\, moderates panel discussions\, and speaks to a variety of audiences about literature and medicine\, narrative and storytelling in medicine\, women’s health\, mental healthcare\, and primary care and co-directs the Media and Medicine Certificate Program at Harvard Medical School. Suzanne’s essay collection\, Letter to a Young Female Physician\, was published by W.W. Norton & Co. in 2021. Her memoir\, The Mirror Box: A Doctor’s Story will be published by W.W. Norton & Co. on March 23\, 2027. Koven was born and raised in New York City. After her residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital\, she joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and has practiced primary care internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for over 30 years. \nFor more information on the Concord Festival of Authors\, please visit www.concordfestivalofauthors.org.
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LOCATION:Concord’s Colonial Inn\, 48 Monument Square\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:Concord Festival of Authors: Poetry Panel with Nate Klug and Catherine Stearns
DESCRIPTION:Join the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library for an in-person afternoon with poets Nate Klug and Catherine Stearns who will read and engage in a Q & A about their inspirations and craft. \nNate Klug reads from his collection\, Hosts and Guests: poems. Klug is a poet and the author of Rude Woods\, a modern translation of Virgil’s Eclogues (The Song Cave\, 2013)\, Anyone (Chicago\, 2015)\, and Hosts and Guests (Princeton\, 2020). His poems have appeared in The Nation\, The New York Review of Books\, Best American Poetry\, and elsewhere. His writing has been supported by fellowships from the James Merrill House\, MacDowell\, and the Poetry Foundation. A Congregationalist minister\, he works at the First Parish in Lincoln and lives in Concord\, Massachusetts. \nCatherine Stearns holds an MFA in Poetry from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa\, and a Ph.D. in American Literature from Brandeis University. Her first book\, The Transparency of Skin (New Rivers Press)\, was selected as a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards\, and a later chapbook\, Then & Again\, was published by the regional book-arts press\, Slate Roof. Her most recent collection\, Out Toward Morning\, was released this fall by Grid Press. She taught writing and literature for many years at Belmont Hill School\, where she headed the English Department\, and was Writer-in Residence at the Roxbury Latin School before she retired. She and her husband\, Richard Klug\, live in South Natick\, Massachusetts. \nFor more information about the Concord Festival of Authors\, please visit www.concordfestivalofauthors.org.
URL:https://www.livingconcord.com/event/concord-festival-of-authors-poetry-panel-with-nate-klug-and-catherine-stearns/
LOCATION:Concord Free Public Library\, 129 Main Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:Concord Festival of Authors: Julie Carrick Dalton\, author of The Forest Becomes Her
DESCRIPTION:Join author Julie Carrick Dalton for a discussion of her new book The Forest Become Her. This event is part of the 2026 Concord Festival of Authors. \n“In historic\, bucolic Concord\, Massachusetts\, a centuries-old forest has been removed to make way for a new\, eco-friendly housing development. The locals are upset by the destruction\, but out-of-towners like Hazel Stoddard are flocking to put down roots in their new guilt-free dream homes. Soon a tragedy leaves Hazel unmoored in her new life\, and she begins to feel the pull of the absent forest. Hazel is not alone—her neighbors\, real estate agent Stella Flint and teenage environmentalist Polly Bauer\, each have their own traumas and their own relationship to the land. The three women are drawn together to save the last remaining oak tree\, or they risk losing themselves to lingering shadows that only they can see.” In The Forest Becomes Her\, Julie Carrick Dalton brings hope and reverence to this lush celebration of multigenerational female relationships\, the ever-evolving female form\, humanity’s connection to our changing world\, and the mysteries that still exist in nature. \nAuthor Bio: Julie Carrick Dalton is the author of The Forest Becomes Her\, The Last Beekeeper\, and Waiting for the Night Song. She is the winner of the New Hampshire Book Awards’ People’s Choice for Best Novel\, and was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award\, the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature\, and the ASLE Book Award. Her novels have been named to Most Anticipated lists from CNN\, Newsweek\, USA Today\, Parade\, and others\, and were selected as an Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best Book of the Month. A former organic farmer\, forest manager\, and beekeeper\, and a TEDx speaker\, she is a frequent speaker on the topic of fiction in the age of climate crisis at universities\, museums\, and conferences\, nationally and internationally. She currently serves on the teaching faculty of Drexel University’s Creative Writing MFA program and is a frequent guest lecturer at Harvard. When she isn’t reading or writing\, you can probably find Julie kayaking\, skiing\, swimming\, gardening\, or trying to track down her four children and two dogs. \nFor more information\, please visit https://juliecarrickdalton.com/ \nFor more information on the Concord Festival of Authors\, please visit www.concordfestivalofauthors.org.
URL:https://www.livingconcord.com/event/concord-festival-of-authors-julie-carrick-dalton-author-of-the-forest-becomes-her/
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SUMMARY:Concord Festival of Authors: Mystery Night 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the Library present Mystery Night 2026\, featuring Joseph Finder\, Jule Selbo\, and Janet Raye Stevens! The panel will be moderated by long-time Mystery Night Moderator Kate Flora. \nKate Flora’s fascination with people’s criminal tendencies began in the Maine attorney general’s office. Deadbeat dads\, child abusers\, and employment discrimination aroused her curiosity about human behavior. The author of twenty-four books spanning genres including crime fiction\, true crime\, memoir\, nonfiction\, and short stories\, Flora’s been a finalist for the Edgar\, Agatha\, Anthony\, and Derringer awards and twice won the Maine Literary Award for crime fiction. She’s a former international president of Sisters in Crime\, and a founder of the New England Crime Bake and Maine Crime Wave mystery conferences. She blogs with the Maine Crime Writers. When not conducting research for her novels and nonfiction\, Kate can often be found in her garden\, waging war against the woodchucks and her husband’s lawnmower. She divides her time between Maine and Massachusetts. The CFA Team thanks Kate for her many years leading Mystery Night! \nJoseph Finder is the New York Times bestselling author of 17 suspense novels\, most recently The Oligarch’s Daughter (2025). His previous novel\, House On Fire\, is the fourth featuring “private spy” Nick Heller. His books have won numerous awards\, including the Strand Critics Award for Best Novel for Buried Secrets (2011)\, the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel for Killer Instinct (2006) and the Barry Award for Best Thriller for Company Man (2005). The Boston Globe has called him a “master of the modern thriller.” Two of his novels have been made into major motion pictures\, including High Crimes\, adapted into the hit 2002 movie starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman; and Paranoia\, the 2013 film starring Harrison Ford\, Gary Oldman\, and Liam Hemsworth. A founding member of the International Thriller Writers\, as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. Joe is a graduate of Yale and the Harvard Russian Research Center. He lives in Boston. \nJule Selbo is the author of the Dee Rommel Mystery Series (10 DAYS\, 9 DAYS\, 8 DAYS\, 7 DAYS\, 6 DAYS) and\, yes\, the plan is to get down to 1 DAY. They have received starred Kirkus reviews and multiple awards (including the Silver Falchion\, Clue and Foreword\, and Maine Literary Award nominations). She has also written three historical fiction books\, Find Me in Florence\, Breaking Barriers – The Life of Laura Bassi\, and Dreams of Discovery – The Life of John Cabot. Her short stories can be seen in Thriller Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock Magazine. She was a writer/co-executive producer on multiple TV series and has written features for Disney\, Paramount\, Fox and other studios\, including The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles\, Hercules\, Melrose Place\, and many more. A native of Fargo\, North Dakota\, Jule now lives in Portland\, Maine. \nMeet award-winning author Janet Raye Stevens/Evie Kelley – mom\, tea-drinker (okay\, tea guzzler)\, and weaver of smart\, suspenseful\, stealthily romantic tales. As Janet Raye Stevens\, she writes both short- and novel-length mysteries and historical suspense\, including the WWII-set Daphne du Maurier award-winning A Moment After Dark and the Beryl Blue\, Time Cop series. Writing as Evie Kelley\, she’s recently released the first in a young adult sci-fi suspense series\, The Nascent Bloom: Book 1 Caught\, a Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award finalist and Claymore Award Top Pick. Janet/Evie lives\, writes\, and drinks copious amounts of tea at her home in central MA. \nFor more information on the Concord Festival of Authors\, please visit www.concordfestivalofauthors.org.
URL:https://www.livingconcord.com/event/concord-festival-of-authors-mystery-night-2026/
LOCATION:Concord Free Public Library\, 129 Main Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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