Friends of the Simsbury Public Library
Fall Author Luncheon with J. Courtney Sullivan
Thursday, October 14 noon-2 p.m.
Hop Meadow Country Club
The Friends of the Simsbury Public Library will host The New York Times bestselling author J. Courtney Sullivan at their Fall Author Luncheon on Thursday, October 14 from noon-2 p.m. The luncheon and talk will be held at the Hop Meadow Country Club on 85 Firetown Road in Simsbury. The cost is $32 per person, and Courtney will be signing books which will be available for purchase. The public is welcome to attend.
J. Courtney Sullivan is the author of the critically-acclaimed novels Commencement, Maine, The Engagements, and Saints For All Occasions which she will be discussing along with her most recent novel Friends and Strangers. Saints for All Occasions was named one of the ten best books of the year by the Washington Post, a New York Times Critic’s Pick for 2017, and a New England Book Award nominee. This sweeping, unforgettable novel about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart was called "reminiscent of both Colm Toibin's Brooklyn and Matthew Thomas's We Are Not Ourselves… All of Sullivan's characters leap off the page. You don't read this book; you breathe it." –Janet Maslin, "Critics' Top Books of 2017," The New York Times. And, Richard Russo said about the novel, "I hope to read another novel as strong and wise and beautiful and heartbreaking as Saints for All Occasions this year, but I'm not sure I will."
Courtney Sullivan grew up outside Boston, MA. She attended Smith College, where she majored in Victorian literature and received the Ellen M. Hatfield Memorial Prize for best short story, the Norma M. Leas prize for excellence in written English, and the Jeanne MacFarland Prize for excellent work in Women's Studies. She has written for the The New York Times where she worked for four years, and her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune, New York magazine, Elle, Glamour, Allure, Real Simple, and O: The Oprah Magazine, among many others. She is a co-editor, with Courtney Martin, of the essay anthology Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists. Courtney now lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, son, and dog.
This is a popular event with limited seating so get your reservations in early. RSVP before September 30th at simsburylibrary.info via the Event Calendar, or pick up a reservation form at the library's reference desk. Call the library at (860) 658-7663 with questions.
