NH Book Festival: 20th Century Historical Fiction

This panel will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts and begins at 2:20pm on Saturday, 10/5/2024. It will be moderated by Brinda Charry and will feature:

Photo by David E. Lawrence

Marjan Kamali, born in Turkey to Iranian parents, spent her childhood in Kenya, Germany, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley, Columbia University, and New York University. She is the 2022 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Award. She is the best-selling author of The Lion Women of Tehran, The Stationery Shop, and Together Tea. Her novels have been translated into over 20 languages. Marjan lives with her family in the Boston area. 

Dawn Tripp is the author of the novel Georgia, which 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 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 poems and essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, AGNI, Conjunctions, and NPR, among others. She serves on the board of the Boston Book Festival and on the board of Gnome Surf: A non-profit Surf Therapy Organization focused on creating a culture shift towards kindness, love, and acceptance for athletes of all abilities. She graduated from Harvard and lives in Massachusetts with her sons.

 The NH Book Festival begins in 8 Days!