Happily Rarely After: Literary Truth, Lies, and Love

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Randy Susan Meyers is the internationally bestselling author of five novels. Though her books explore domestic drama, societal issues, and cultural nuances-informed by her years working with community and governmental agencies-she gained the most insight into family and other politics during four years bartending in a small Boston neighborhood pub. Her latest book is The Many Mothers of Ivy Puddingstone.

Crystal King is the author of In The Garden of Monsters, The Chef’s Secret and Feast of Sorrow, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and was a Must Read for the MassBook Awards. She is an author, culinary enthusiast, and marketing expert, and has taught at multiple universities including Harvard Extension and Boston University. She resides in Boston.

Dawn Tripp’s novel Georgia was a national bestseller, finalist for the New England Book Award, and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. She is also the author of three previous novels: Game of Secrets, Moon Tide, and The Season of Open Water, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. Her latest book is Jackie, a novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Whitney Scharer earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, and her short fiction has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Cimarron Review, and other journals. She's received an Emerging Artist Award in Literature from the St. Botolph Club Foundation, a Somerville Arts Council Artists grant, and been awarded a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. The Age of Light is her first novel.

Jennifer S. Brown is the author of Modern Girls, which was a Goodreads Choice Award semifinalist for Historical Fiction, a Massachusetts Book Award “Must Read,” and a USA Today bestseller. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Fiction Southeast, Southeast Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Cognoscenti, and Bellevue Literary Review, among other places. Her latest historical novel is The Whisper Sister.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley, United States