Writers Emily Franklin, Dawn Tripp, and Adelle Waldman will visit the Kingston Public Library for an author talk celebrating Women’s History Month.

The trio will talk about the female characters in their novels, the ways in which authors researched individuals in stories, and the subjects. Franklin and Tripp recently authored books featuring Isabella Stewart Gardner (The Lioness of Boston) and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Jackie) while Waldman published a fictionalized book inspired by her experience unloading boxes at a big box-store, Help Wanted.

Franklin is the bestselling author of more than 20 novels for both adults and young adults, as well as a poetry collection titled, Tell Me How You Got Here. Her award-winning work has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Kenyon Review, and other numerous publications. The Lioness of Boston was a Boston Globe and Indie Bookstore bestseller, as it was featured on WBUR’s “Local Authors.” She has been featured on NPR and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries.

Franklin lives outside of Boston with her family and two large dogs. You can follow her at emilyfranklin.com.

Tripp is the nationally bestselling author of Jackie and Georgia (a fictional novel about Georgia O’Keefe), was a finalist for the New England Book Award and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. Her three other previous novels are Game of Secrets, Moon Tide, and The Season of Open Water, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Conjunctions, AGNI, and NPR.

Tripp graduated from Harvard and lives in Massachusetts with her sons. For more information about Tripp, her website is dawntripp.com.

In addition to the novel Help Wanted released in March of 2024, Waldman has also written The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. It was named one of the years best books by the New Yorker, The Economist, NPR, Slate, Bookforum, and the Guardian. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, and other publications.

Waldman lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and daughter. You can read more about her by visiting adellewaldman.com.

Books will be on sale following the event for all three authors.