Novelist Monica Wood to Give Reading Nov. 4

Monica Wood’s newest novel will appear in 2023 from Mariner Books. Her most recent novel, “The One-in-a-Million Boy,” has been translated into 20 languages in over 30 countries. She is also the author of “When We Were the Kennedys,” a New England bestseller, Oprah magazine summer-reading pick, and winner of the May Sarton Memoir Award and the Maine Literary Award.

The student reader at this event will be Emma Mason '23.

 

Wood's novel “Any Bitter Thing” was an American Booksellers Association bestseller and Book Sense Top Ten pick. Her nonfiction has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine; The New York Times; Martha Stewart Living; Parade and many other publications and her play, “Papermaker,” enjoyed an extended debut run at the Portland Stage Company in Portland, Maine.

 

Wood is a novelist, memoirist and playwright; the 2019 recipient of the Maine Humanities Council Carlson Prize for contributions to the public humanities; and a recipient of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Distinguished Achievement Award for contributions to the literary arts. She lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband, Dan Abbott and their cat, Susie.

 

The event begins at 7 p.m. and is free and open to vaccinated members of the public with advance registration by emailing mcervas@westminster-school.org with the number of people attending. Reservations may be made until the day before the event.

 

This event will be held in the Gund Reading Room of the school’s Armour Academic Center. Ample parking is available in the parking lot adjacent to Armour.