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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“Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War” book cover and color author photo

Michael Vorenberg

Historian Michael Vorenberg attempts to determine the long-debated endpoint for the Civil War. Was it April 9, when Lee surrendered to Grant? Or ten weeks afterward, when a Texas commander proclaimed Juneteenth the end of slavery? Or August 1866, when President Andrew Johnson simply declared “the insurrection is at an end”? To say how a war ends is to suggest how it should be remembered, and Vorenberg’s search expands our understanding of the nature of war itself and how societies struggle to draw the line between war and peace.

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Clark Family Branch
"The Buffalo Hunter Hunter" book cover and color author photo

Stephen Graham Jones

One of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones presents a chilling historical horror novel set in the American west. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” is told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, a vampire who haunts the fields of the reservation looking for justice.

Thursday, March 20, 2025
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Clark Family Branch
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