NYT Bestselling Author Jean Hanff Korelitz

Inaugural NH Book Festival Fundraising Event

Tickets include a copy of first-edition hardcover book!

$55 1 ticket + book

The New Hampshire Book Festival is thrilled to welcome bestselling author Jean Hanff Korelitz for an evening of literary conversation about her captivating new novel The Sequel, the follow-up to her blockbuster The Plot, which Stephen King called “insanely readable.”

As The Sequel opens, Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business. That is to say, she’s taken care of her husband, bestselling novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and laid to rest those anonymous accusations of plagiarism that so tormented him. Now she is living the contented life of a literary widow, enjoying her husband’s royalty checks in perpetuity, but for the second time in her life, a work of fiction intercedes, and this time it’s her own debut novel, The Afterword. After all, how hard can it really be to write a universally lauded bestseller?

But when Anna publishes her book and indulges in her own literary acclaim, she begins to receive excerpts of a novel she never expected to see again, a novel that should no longer exist. That it does means something has gone very wrong, and someone out there knows too much: about her late brother, her late husband, and just possibly… Anna, herself. What does this person want and what are they prepared to do? She has come too far, and worked too hard, to lose what she values most: the sole and uncontested right to her own story. And she is, by any standard, a master storyteller.

With her signature wit and sardonic humor, Jean Hanff Korelitz gives readers an antihero to root for while illuminating and satirizing the world of publishing in this deliciously fun and suspenseful read.

Jean Hanff Korelitz is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Plot and The Latecomer (both being adapted as limited series), You Should Have Known (which aired on HBO as The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, and Donald Sutherland), Admission (adapted as a film starring Tina Fey), The Devil and Webster, The White Rose, The Sabbathday River, and A Jury of Her Peers, as well as Interference Powder, a novel for children. She lives in New York City with her husband, Irish poet Paul Muldoon.

Tickets include a first-edition hardcover copy of THE SEQUEL (October 1, 2024, Celadon Books). A signing line will follow the event.

All ticket sales support the New Hampshire Book Festival, which brings acclaimed authors from across the country to Concord, NH, for a free day of conversations and discussions.