Beck Literary Festival event: Maggie Smith in Conversation with Emily St. John Mandel and Kevin Wilson

Maggie Smith in Conversation with Emily St. John Mandel and Kevin Wilson.

Followed by book signing on the stage and book sales in the lobby.

About the authors

Maggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of nine books of poetry and prose, including “A Suit or a Suitcase,” “You Could Make This Place Beautiful,” “Good Bones,” “Goldenrod,” “Keep Moving,” and “My Thoughts Have Wings.” She has been widely published, appearing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Best American Poetry, and more. She is the host of The Slowdown. 

Emily St. John Mandel is the bestselling author of numerous novels, including “The Glass Hotel,” “Station Eleven,” and “Sea of Tranquility.” Her novel “Station Eleven,” which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Book Award, and the Morning News Tournament of Books, and was adapted into a limited series for HBO. A previous novel, “The Singer’s Gun,” was the 2014 winner of the Prix Mystere de la Critique in France. Her short fiction and essays have been anthologized in numerous collections, including Best American Mystery Stories 2013. She is a staff writer for The Millions. 

Kevin Wilson is the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestsellers “The Family Fang” and “Nothing to See Here,” a Read with Jenna book club selection, and “Run for the Hills.” His fiction has appeared in multiple journals, as well as Best American Short Stories 2020 and 2021 and the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his family, where he is an associate professor in the English & Creative Writing Department at the University of the South.