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:
Benjamin Markovits
Events: Literary Thriller Night
Book: A Quiet Adjustment
Originally from Texas, Benjamin Markovits will be a 2008-9 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard. He is the author of five novels, including Imposture, the first novel in his Lord Byron Trilogy.
A Quiet Adjustment, the second novel in Markovits’s Lord Byron Trilogy, is a psychological thriller of passionate attachment and emotional cruelty, involving a love triangle between Lord Byron, his half-sister, and his wife. Inspired by the actual biography of Lord Byron —the greatest literary figure and most notorious sex symbol of his age — Markovits reimagines Byron’s marriage to the capable, intellectual, and tormented Annabella and the scandal that broke open their lives and riveted the world around them: Byron’s incestuous relationship with his impetuous half-sister, Gus. Their very different understandings of love and obligation lead them all — and the reader — headlong to a devastating conclusion.
In addition to his fiction, Markovitz contributes to the New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, and other publications.