NH Book Festival: Spotlight Conversation

This spotlight conversation will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts and begins at 11:40am on Saturday, 10/5/2024. It will feature:

Claire Messud is the author of six works of fiction. A recipient of a Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.

 Photo by Beowulf Sheehan

Ann Hood has wanted to be a writer for as long as she can remember. Her favorite books as a kid were Little Women and Nancy Drew. Later, I loved Marjorie Morningstar, Les Miserables and Doctor Zhivago, obviously choosing books by size! A Rhode Island native, she was born in West Warwick and spent high school working as a Marsha Jordan Girl, modeling for the Jordan Marsh department store at the Warwick Mall. Her first novel, Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine, was written on international flights and on the Train to the Plane, which was the subway out to JFK, while she worked as a TWA stewardess. Since then, she has published in The New York Times, The Paris Review, O, Bon Appetit, Tin House, The Atlantic Monthly, Real Simple, and other wonderful places; and has won two Pushcart Prizes, two Best American Food Writing Awards, Best American Spiritual Writing and Travel Writing Awards, and a Boston Public Library Literary Light Award. 

The NH Book Festival begins in 15 Days!