Dawn Tripp Presenting her novel Jackie
May 3 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
In this astute, highly researched biographical novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention. JACKIE is the story of a woman who forged a legacy out of grief and shaped history even as she was living it—a deeply private person with a nuanced, formidable intellect. It is the story of a love affair, a complicated marriage, and the fracturing of identity that comes in the wake of unthinkable violence. In this lecture, Tripp will highlight Jackie’s integrity as a mother, which was fundamental to her character, the choices she made, and the arc of her life.
Dawn Tripp is the nationally bestselling author of the novels Jackie and Georgia, finalist for the New England Book Award and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. Praised by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, People Magazine, and others, Jackie is described by author Chris Bohjalian as a “brilliant, beautiful book that touches the soul in ways conventional biographies can’t.” Tripp is the author of three previous novels: Game of Secrets, Moon Tide, and The Season of Open Water, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. She graduated from Harvard University and lives in Massachusetts with her sons.