Concord, Massachusetts
Two weeks of talks, readings, and discussions celebrating the written and the spoken word.
Randall Kennedy
Ha Jin
Anita Hill
Stephen Greenblatt
How You Can Participate
- Attend: Most events are free. All events are open to the public. Events that require a ticket are so indicated and include information about how and where to obtain tickets.
- Donate: The festival is produced by a non-profit foundation and depends greatly on individual support. Tax deductible donations in any amount are encouraged and can be made online.
- Sponsor: Corporate sponsorship is welcomed and is available. For information please .
Concord Festival of Authors is funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council,
a stage agency
Major Sponsors:
Raffi Yessayan
Events: Suspense Night 2010
Book: 2 in the Hat
Raffi Yessayan is the author of a previous novel 8 in the Box. For eleven years he worked as an assistant district attorney in Boston, where he was chief of the Gang Unit. He recently left the DA’s office to go into private practice as a criminal defense attorney.
His new novel is a chilling and twisty thriller that mixes edgy psychological suspense, hard-boiled realism, and staccato bursts of pulse quickening action. When a pair of college students turn up bizarrely slain, homicide detective Angel Alves fears that a serial killer is stalking Boston. That fear becomes fact when Alves’s ex partner recognizes the murders as the work of the Prom Night Killer.