Book & Author Luncheon 2025
Authors Keith O'Brien and David Reynolds
Best-selling authors Keith O’Brien and David Reynolds will be the featured speakers at the Friends of the Wolfeboro Library’s 40th annual Book & Author Luncheon. Friday, June 6, at Bald Peak Colony Club.
11:30 am Meet the Authors and Reception.
12:30 Lunch and Speakers
Attendees not only have the opportunity to see and hear first-hand from these two notable authors but a chance to support the library. Cost of the luncheon is $65 per person. Questions can be directed to annp7575@gmail.com
O’Brien’s latest book, Charlie Hustle, the chronicle of Pete Rose, one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures, is described by The Wall Street Journal as “comprehensive, compulsively readable, and wholly terrific.”
Reynolds’ latest work, Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him, described by The Wall Street Journal as "fresh, fast-paced, and bracing," is a new biography of Winston Churchill revealing how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own triumphs and failures as a leader.
As always, attendees can meet the authors and have books signed both before and after the luncheon. The Country Bookseller will have an ample supply of books available for purchase at the event.
As in past years, you will be able to support the Friends, even if you can’t attend the luncheon, by buying raffle tickets for a chance to win one of several themed baskets. Raffle baskets will be on display in the library beginning in mid-May, so you can figure out which one just has to be yours!
Keith O’BrienKeith O'Brien is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He has written four books, been a finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, been longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and has contributed to multiple publications over the years.
O’Brien’s latest book, Charlie Hustle, the chronicle of Pete Rose, one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures, is described by The Wall Street Journal as “comprehensive, compulsively readable, and wholly terrific.”
Publishers Weekly calls Charlie Hustle "definitive and elegantly told, this is a home run," and Kirkus Reviews hails the book as a "masterpiece of a sports biography."
O’Brien’s work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and on National Public Radio. His radio stories have aired on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition, as well as Marketplace and This American Life. A Midwesterner by birth, O'Brien grew up in Cincinnati and graduated from Northwestern University. He now lives in New Hampshire with his wife, two children, two dogs, and two cats.
David Reynolds
David Reynolds is Emeritus Professor of International History and a Fellow of Christ’s College. David studied at Cambridge and Harvard Universities and has been a regular visitor to the US since first coming here as a graduate student in 1973.
The author of 13 books, in addition to Mirrors of Greatness, Reynolds most recent books are The Long Shadow: The Great War and the 20th Century, The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt, and Island Stories: An Unconventional History of Britain.
Reynolds’ visiting positions include posts at Harvard, Nihon University in Tokyo, and Sciences Po in Paris. He also served on the Academic Advisory Committee for the Imperial War Museum’s galleries on the First World War (opened 2014) and the Second World War (opened 2021).
He has also written and presented historical documentaries for BBC TV and BBC Radio.
