Author • Actor Series | An Evening with Charles Baxter, Peter Orner & Ben Shattuck

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Charles Baxter is the author of the novels The Feast of Love, which was nominated for the National Book Award, First Light, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, The Soul Thief, and The Sun Collective, and story collections including Believers, Gryphon, and Harmony of the World. His stories have appeared in several anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The O. Henry Prize Story Anthology. He has won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.

Peter Orner is the author of two novels, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Love and Shame and Love. He has also written three short story collections, Esther Stories, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge and Maggie Brown & Others. Peter’s essay collection / memoir, Am I Alone Here? Notes on Reading to Live and Living to Read, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been translated into French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish, and Japanese.

Ben Shattuck is a recipient of the PEN America Short Story Prize and a 2019 Pushcart Prize. Shattuck’s first book, Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau was a New Yorker magazine Best Book of 2022 and a Wall Street Journal Best Book of Spring. His second book, The History of Sound: Stories was a Chicago Tribune 10 Best Books of 2024, a Kirkus Reviews Best Short Fiction, and was longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. He lives with his wife and daughter on the coast of Massachusetts, where he owns and runs the oldest general store in America, built in 1793.