Name: An Evening with Bestselling Author Keith O'Brien! In conversation with Chad Finn and Bob Ryan
Start: 2026-03-11T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 12 Spruce St., Acton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01720

An Evening with Bestselling Author Keith O'Brien! In conversation with Chad Finn and Bob Ryan

Join us for an epic night talking about Larry Bird, basketball, and Boston with New York Times-bestselling author and award-winning journalist Keith O'Brien! Keith will be celebrating his newest book, Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird. He will be joined in conversation by acclaimed Boston Globe sports journalists Chad Finn and Bob Ryan.
Keith O’Brien is the New York Times bestselling author of Charlie Hustle, Paradise Falls, Fly Girls, and Outside Shot. He has won the 2025 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld award for biography; has been a finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports writing; and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, NPR, and This American Life. A native of Ohio, Keith lives in New Hampshire.
Chad Finn is a sports and sports media columnist. He is the editor of “The Boston Globe Story of the Red Sox” and “The Boston Globe Story of the Celtics." He has won multiple Associated Press Sports Editors awards, including for a multimedia project in 2018 on LeBron James’s time in NBA summer league in Boston. His favorite projects have included an oral history of Larry Bird’s 60-point game and a profile of former Red Sox pitcher and broadcaster Dennis Eckersley for the Globe Magazine. He has had stories selected for the notables section of “The Year’s Best Sports Writing” anthologies in 2022 (a look back at “Wide World of Sports”) and 2023 (on the end of his daughter’s high school sports career). From 2020-22 he was named Favorite Sports Writer in Boston in the annual Channel Media Market and Research Poll, and was named Most Trusted in ‘22. He is a Maine native who got his first big break covering the 42-1-2 national champion University of Maine hockey team as a student in 1993.
Bob Ryan was a sportswriter for The Boston Globe and a four-time winner of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association National Sportswriter of the Year Award. He retired in 2012 after 44 years on the job. In 2015, he received a PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. He is the author of SCRIBE: My Life in Sports.