Authors and Artists  Put Pen to Paper, Again
Pieter Lefferts of Sharon, Conn., will be among the 30 authors and illustrators to sign copies of their latest work at the 24th Annual Hotchkiss Library of Sharon Summer Book Signing. 
Photo by Cynthia Hochswender

Authors and Artists Put Pen to Paper, Again

The highly anticipated Hotchkiss Library of Sharon Annual Sharon Summer Book Signing in Sharon, Conn., will be held this year on Friday, Aug. 5, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Because of ongoing construction at the historic library building, this year’s signing event will be held (under the white tent, as is traditional) next door at the Sharon Historical Society. There will not be a library book sale on Saturday this year.

Thirty authors and illustrators will sign copies of their latest books this year, including baker Jessie Sheehan, gardener Page Dickey, historian and watercolorist Adam Van Doren and Thoreau expert Ben Shattuck.

Other local favorites include Mark Scarbrough and Laurie Lisle and race car drive/sports commentator/painter Sam Posey.

Admission is $40 and includes beer, wine and hors d’oeuvres. Books will be available for purchase; all proceeds from the event support the programs and services of the nonprofit library.

Four festive author dinners will follow at patron homes in Sharon. Dinner tickets are $175 per person.

All book signing and author dinner attendees must be fully vaccinated and masks are strongly encouraged. Dinners may be held indoors; the dinner hosts request that all dinner guests test negative for COVID-19 on Aug. 5 (policy subject to revision).

To learn more and to buy tickets, go to hotchkisslibraryofsharon.org/book-signing-2022.

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