Author Events

Did you know we have the biggest, number one author event series in the country? Each month the St. Louis County Library Foundation brings bestselling and award-winning authors from a variety of genres to the library, offering readers exclusive opportunities to meet and engage with their favorite writers.

Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Seating is limited; early arrival is highly recommended. Books for signing will be available for purchase at the events. For more information, please call 314-994-3300.

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John Green author of “Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection”

SOLD OUT–Ticketed Event: John Green

John Green, the #1 bestselling author and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease. In 2019, Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. In “Everything Is Tuberculosis,” John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.

Sunday, March 23, 2025
6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Clark Family Branch
“Kate and Frida: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Books” book cover and color author photo

Kim Fay

From the author of instant national bestseller “Love & Saffron,” this comforting novel follows a surprising friendship and illuminates the power of books to change our lives. Twentysomething Frida arrives in Paris in 1991, seeking her future as a war correspondent. But when she writes to a bookshop in Seattle, she receives more than just the book she requests. Bookseller Kate is transformed by Frida’s free spirit. Through the most tumultuous years of their young lives, Kate and Frida learn the necessity of embracing joy, especially through our darkest hours.

Monday, March 24, 2025
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Clark Family Branch
"“The Love We Found" book cover and color author photo

Jill Santopolo

Bestselling author Jill Santopolo presents the long-awaited follow up to her hit novel “The Light We Lost”: a thrilling love story about the roles fate and choice play in shaping a life. It’s been nearly ten years since Gabe’s been gone when Lucy finds a tiny piece of paper in a box of his old photos. An address in Rome. Lucy buys a last-minute plane ticket. Impulsive, but Gabe always brought that out in her. Can Lucy’s journey to uncover Gabe’s secret leads her to new love?

Wednesday, March 26, 2025
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Clark Family Branch
"When the Moon Hits Your Eye" book cover and color author photo

John Scalzi

Acclaimed science fiction author John Scalzi flies readers to the moon with his most fantastic tale to date. The moon has turned to cheese. For some it’s an opportunity. For others it’s a moment to question their faith. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. Astronauts and billionaires, professors and presidents, teenagers and terminal patients at the end of their lives -- over the length of an entire lunar cycle, each get their moment to panic, to plan, to wonder and pray, to laugh and grieve. It’s a wild moonage daydream. Ride this rocket.

Thursday, March 27, 2025
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Clark Family Branch
"The Dad Coach" book cover and color author photo

Ticketed Event: Mike Matheny

Long before he became manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, Mike Matheny grasped the core values of what really mattered when it came to playing baseball. It wasn’t attention from fans or the trophy at the end of a season that guided his morals, but the hard-won discipline, labor, and humility that he incorporated into every game he played. In “The Dad Coach,” Matheny puts his philosophy into action and provides a step-by-step template for coaches and parents to develop solid fundamentals and a strong sense of character in young people.

Friday, March 28, 2025
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Clark Family Branch
“There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension” book cover and color author photo

Hanif Abdurraqib

Longlisted for the National Book Award and a #1 bestseller, “There’s Always This Year” is a triumphant reflection on basketball, family and home. Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling.

Monday, March 31, 2025
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Clark Family Branch