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Award-Winning Writer Monica Wood to Give Reading
Novelist, memoirist and playwright Monica Wood will give a reading at Westminster Oct. 6 as part of the Friday Nights at Westminster series. The student reader will be Sixth Former Nicholas Wee, the winner of the school’s Brian Ford Writing Prize.
The event is free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Gund Reading Room of Armour Academic Center.
Wood’s most recent novel, “The One-in-a-Million Boy,” has been published in 19 foreign editions and won a number of awards including a 2017 Nautilus Book Award. She is also the author of “When We Were the Kennedys,” a New England best-seller; O, The Oprah Magazine summer-reading pick; and the 2016 Maine Literary Award. Her novel “Any Bitter Thing” was an American Booksellers Association best-seller 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 recent play, “Papermaker,” enjoyed an extended debut run at the Portland Stage Company in Portland, Maine.
Ample parking will be available in the parking lot adjacent to Armour Academic Center.
The event is made possible by a generous grant from the Ford-Goldfarb English Department Enrichment Fund.
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