Elinor Lipman

Lipman and Lippman are together for the first time with the paperback releases of their latest novels. Elinor Lipman is the author of eight previous novels, including The Inn at Lake Devine and My Latest Grievance, winner of the Paterson Fiction Prize. In 2001, she won the New England Book Award for ... (more)Fiction. The film Then She Found Me, directed by and starring Helen Hunt, is based on her first novel. In her latest novel, The Family Man, a hysterical phone call from Henry Archer’s ex-wife and a photograph upend his well-ordered life and bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage. Laura Lippman was a Baltimore Sun reporter for 12 years. Her Tess Monaghan books, By a Spider’s Thread, The Last Place, The Sugar House, Baltimore Blues, Charm City, Butchers Hill, No Good Deeds, and In Big Trouble, have won every major mystery prize, including the Edgar, Shamus, Agatha, Anthony, and Nero Wolfe awards. In her latest work, Life Sentences, Lippman exhibits the keen psychological insight that is her trademark and gives a deeply satisfying story that explores the complexities of friendship, the pitfalls of passion, and the blurry lines that separate memory from myth and self-delusion.

This is a free event held a the Holden Senior Center. Copies of Ms. Lipman's books will be available to purchase.

The cost of the event is $6, or receive 2 free tickets with the purchase of the book from Politics & Prose.

From the store site: You might know Elinor Lipman as the bestselling, award-winning Northampton-based writer behind any number of books including The Dearly Departed, The Ladies’ Man and Then She Found Me (made into a movie starring Helen Hunt). She’s in town to read from her newest book, The Family ... (more)Man, the screwball saga of a gay lawyer reunited with his long-lost stepdaughter.

Bookseller extraordinaire Diane Leslie will host her Book Group as they discuss Elinor Lipman's The Family Man, with Elinor Lipman! The cost of this event is $20 and it will be fabulous.

Elinor Lipman, author of Then She Found Me, Isabel's Bed, and My Latest Grievance, will read from her newly-published novel, The Family Man.

"The plot alone will suck in readers, but Lipman's knack for creating lovable and multifaceted characters is the real draw."Publisher's Weekly Elinor Lipman is the author of eight previous novels including, My Latest Grievance, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, The Inn at Lake Devine, and Then She Found Me. ... (more)She has taught at Simmons, Hampshire, and Smith colleges.

The Friends of the Newton Free Library are proud to present Elinor Lipman, author of the soon-to-be-published The Family Man, and Tony Horwitz, author of A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, at the 25th annual Book and Author Luncheon. Tickets $35