Author Susan Meissner in conversation with Lynda Loigman
SATURDAY, October 14, 3:30pm. Susan Meissner is a USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction with more than three-quarters of a million books in readers' hands and translations in nineteen languages. She is an author, speaker and writing workshop leader with a background in community journalism. Her novels include Only the Beautiful and The Nature of Fragile Things, both of which earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly; The Last Year of the War, named to Real Simple magazine’s list of best books for 2019; As Bright as Heaven (starred review in Library Journal); Secrets of Charmed Life (Goodreads finalist for Best Historical Fiction 2015); and A Fall of Marigolds, named to Booklist’s Top Ten Women’s Fiction titles for 2014.
In conversation with Lynda Loigman. USA Today bestselling author Lynda Cohen Loigman, whose novels have been called “richly textured” (Associated Press), “emotional and dreamy” (Bustle), with “complex characters [that] deconstruct the anatomy of family relationships” (Library Journal); have been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award in historical fiction; and have been recommended to fans of Alice Hoffman for their artful prose, and Pam Jenoff for their engrossing historical storylines, returns with her most mesmerizing and memorable novel yet: THE MATCHMAKER’S GIFT (St. Martin's Press; September 20, 2022; hardcover, September 5, 2023; paperback)
