2018 Fall Book & Author Luncheon

The Post and Courier proudly presents the 26th Annual Fall Book & Author Luncheon, the Southeast's largest and most prestigious literary luncheon featuring five New York Times best-selling authors. Just announced! Best-Selling Author Ann Patchett will be speaking and signing books!

Ted Bell

Author is a novelist and former advertising executive with 10 consecutive New York Times bestsellers to his credit, including the Alex Hawke series of spy thrillers and a young adult targeted time travel adventure series.

Margaret George

is a New York Times best-selling novelist specializing in epic fictional biographies of outsized personalities such as Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots, Cleopatra, Mary Magdalene, Helen of Troy and Elizabeth I. Her latest book, The Splendor Before the Dark, is her second about the emperor Nero. All six of her novels have been New York Times bestsellers, and the Cleopatra novel was made into an Emmy-nominated ABC-TV miniseries.

 Shari Lapena

a lawyer turned English teacher turned New York Times best-selling author, is best known for her 2016 thriller novel The Couple Next Door, which was a bestseller both in Canada and internationally. Her fifth novel, An Unwanted Guest, also a New York Times best-seller, was released in August.

Celia Rivenbark

is a New York Times best-selling author and humor columnist. Many of her     books have been nominated for the James Thurber Prize and We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier won the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Nonfiction Book of the Year. Her columns appear weekly on The Post and Courier’s commentary page.