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The October 26 event will feature authors Lisa Genova, Nancy Rubin Stuart, and Dawn Tripp

The Friends of the Claire T. Carney Library, formerly Library Associates, proudly announces its annual authors' brunch fundraiser for the benefit of the ½ûÂþÌìÌà Claire T. Carney Library, which will be held on Sunday, October 26, at 12 p.m. in the ½ûÂþÌìÌà Marketplace with parking in Lot 5. The featured authors for the annual fundraiser are Lisa Genova, Nancy Rubin Stuart, and Dawn Tripp. The cost for the brunch is $65 and sponsorship opportunities are available. The organization Friends of the Library previously raised money to establish a Veterans' Reading Room, purchase display cases, and sponsor scholarships.

Featured authors speaking at the event include Lisa Genova, a neuroscientist, speaker, and The New York Times best-selling author of Still Alice. Her latest novel, More or Less Maddy, was released in January 2025. Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Genova has captured a special place in contemporary fiction, writing stories that are equally inspired by neurological conditions and our shared human condition. Still Alice spent 59 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 37 languages. It was adapted into a film starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, and Kate Bosworth. Julianne Moore won the 2015 Best Actress Oscar for her role as Alice Howland.

Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author and journalist who specializes in women, biography, and social history. Her work as a journalist for The New York Times and her experiences as a suburban wife and mother prompted her first book, The New Suburban Woman: Beyond Myth and Motherhood. Rubin Stuart has also written for television series on A&E Network and HGTV and has appeared as an expert speaker on many television shows and podcasts. Her latest book is the 2022 Poor Richard’s Women. She is executive director of the Cape Cod Writers Center.

Dawn Tripp is a nationally best-selling author of five novels, most recently Jackie, a fictional portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, which was longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award and won the San Diego Writers Festival Historical Fiction Award. Her novel Georgia was the finalist for the New England Book Award and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. Tripp is also the author of 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, NPR, and others.

If you have questions about the event, please contact Susan Ahearn, director of alumni relations at sahearn@umassd.edu or 508.910.9534.