The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present the
Concord Festival of Authors 2023
Breakfast with the Authors
returning as a popular CFA ticketed event at
Concord’s Colonial Inn
48 Monument Square
Saturday, October 28, 2023
8:30 - 10:00 AM
Moderated by local author and physician, Dr. Suzanne Koven
Tickets are $30 in advance or $35 at the door, as available.
CFA Breakfast tickets will be sold locally at the Barrow Bookstore and Concord Bookshop as well as online. Includes a full buffet breakfast at Concord’s Colonial Inn.
CFA Breakfast Authors’ books will be for sale on site by the Concord Bookshop.
Julie Carrick Dalton
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A mother of four with a background in journalism, agriculture, and beekeeping, Julie Carrick Dalton is a frequent speaker at universities, museums, libraries, and conferences on the topic of fiction in the age of climate crisis. When she isn't reading or writing, you can probably find Julie working in her pollinator garden, walking the woods, or drying herbs and flowers for her custom tea blends.
Julie Carrick Dalton is the author of The Last Beekeeper and Waiting for the Night Song, a CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, and Parade Most Anticipated novel. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, BusinessWeek, The Hollywood Reporter, Orion, and other publications. An alum of Bread Loaf, Tin House, and GrubStreet's Novel Incubator, Julie will be joining Drexel's MFA in Creative Writing faculty in 2024. She is currently working on a new novel -- which happens to be set in Concord -- slated for publication in 2025.
“The Last Beekeeper is at once a soaring celebration of resilience and friendship, a lyrical exploration of familial ties, and a heartfelt ode to a quickly disappearing natural world. Gorgeous and urgent. I couldn’t put it down.”
Marie Myung-Ok Lee
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marie Myung-Ok Lee is a founder and former board president of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and teaches fiction at Columbia, where she is the Writer in Residence.
Marie Myung-Ok Lee is the author of the 2022 novel The Evening Hero, which was a Good Morning America Book Club Buzz pick. Her journalism and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Paris Review and many others. Her young adult novel, Finding My Voice, is considered the first contemporary set Asian American novel; her novel Hurt You, a contemporary non-neurotypical retelling of Of Mice and Men was published in May 2023.
“Hurt You reads like something written by a master’s hand, a powerful and heartbreaking story that resonates with the force of love and legend.”
Sandeep Jauhar
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A practicing physician, Sandeep Jauhar writes regularly for the opinion section of The New York Times. His TED Talk on the emotional heart was one of the ten most-watched TED Talks of 2019.
Sandeep Jauhar is the bestselling author of several acclaimed books on medical topics: Intern, Doctored, and Heart: A History, which was named a best book of 2018 by The Mail on Sunday, Science Friday, and the Los Angeles Public Library, and was a PBS NewsHour/New York Times book club pick; it was also a finalist for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize. My Father's Brain is his latest book.
“The author’s brutal honesty—about his father’s decline and his own inability to fully reckon with it—is expertly complemented by his medical rigor. Every family who’s ever faced an Alzheimer’s diagnosis will see themselves in this exceptional work.”
Suzanne Koven, MD, CFA Breakfast moderator
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Suzanne Koven, longtime host of the CFA Breakfast with the Authors, was born and raised in New York City. After her residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital, she joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and has practiced primary care internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for over 30 years.
Suzanne Koven received her B.A. in English literature from Yale and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins. She also holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars. In 2019 she was named inaugural Writer in Residence at Mass General. Her essays, articles, blogs, and reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, The New Yorker.com, Psychology Today, The L.A. Review of Books, The Virginia Quarterly, STAT, and other publications. Her monthly column “In Practice” appeared in the Boston Globe and won the Will Solimene Award for Excellence in Medical Writing from the American Medical Writers Association in 2012. Her interview column, “The Big Idea,” appears at The Rumpus. Suzanne conducts workshops, moderates panel discussions, and speaks to a variety of audiences about literature and medicine, narrative and storytelling in medicine, women’s health, mental healthcare, and primary care and co-directs the Media and Medicine Certificate Program at Harvard Medical School. Suzanne’s essay collection, Letter to a Young Female Physician, was published by W.W. Norton & Co. in 2021.
“Koven is rueful and delightful and keeps on building a careening and fascinating life… Letter to a Young Female Physician is a warm and wry epistle, the endless and near-perfect email you wish your mother, your mentor and your therapist would sit down and type out together.”