The Newburyport Literary Festival (NLF), organized by the Newburyport Literary Association, annually celebrates reading, and the love of books.
This year’s NLF, April 23-24, 2010 in venues throughout downtown Newburyport, will feature more than 40 writers of distinguished fiction and non-fiction – including short story writers, children’s authors, biographers, nature writers, critics, screenwriters, poets, novelists, and journalists.
The organizers of the NLF are especially pleased to announce that renowned author Wally Lamb is confirmed to speak at this year’s festival.
Lamb is the author of three New York Times bestselling novels-The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much is True, and She’s Come Undone-of which two were Oprah’s Book Club selections.
Lamb edited Couldn’t Keep It to Myself and I’ll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women’s prison in Connecticut, where he has been a volunteer facilitator for the past ten years.
Lamb’s newest novel, Wishin’ and Hopin’: A Christmas Story was published in November of 2009. He is currently at work on his fifth novel, which is tentatively titled We Are Water.
“We are elated to have Wally Lamb present at this year’s festival and are positive our attendees and supporters are as well,” said Vicki Hendrickson, chairperson of the NLF.
In addition, the late John P. Marquand, a Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist and a longtime resident of Newburyport whose books were written based on his life in this city, will be honored at this year’s NLF as well as the first recipient of the Marquand Award will also be honored, Anita Shreve.
Shreve is the author of Eden Close, The Weight of Water, The Pilot’s Wife, The Last Time They Met, A Wedding in December, and Body Surfing.
The NLF is made possible through the generosity of our founding sponsors – The Institution for Savings and the Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank. Additional support is provided by the Provident Bank, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Massachusetts Cultural Council Amesbury, Comacast and the Newburyport Rotary.
For more information on the NLF, including authors and their work, please visit us online atwww.newburyportliteraryfestival.org/
