Summer Salons
Patrick Nolan
Friday, June 27, 2025
5 – 7:30 pm
Jacqueline Woodson is one of the world’s most beloved and critically acclaimed authors. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Join us for this special event that welcomes Woodson back to Provincetown, a place that nurtured her as a Fine Arts Work Center Fellow. Woodson will read from her work and be joined in conversation by Patrick Nolan, Publisher of Penguin Books, who will moderate a wide ranging conversation about her writing life and award-winning work.
This unique cultural event begins at 5:00 pm with a reception on our courtyard, followed by the Summer Salon conversation starting at 6:00 pm in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room. The event will include a moderated Q&A with the audience followed by a book signing.
Jacqueline Woodson received a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and is the recipient of a 2023 E. B. White Award, a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She is the 2022 Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence, and was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, which also received the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award and a Sibert Honor. She also wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include Coretta Scott King Award and NAACP Image Award winner Before the Ever After, New York Times bestsellers The Year We Learned to Fly, The Day You Begin, and Harbor Me; The Other Side; Each Kindness; Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster; and Miracle’s Boys, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and a two-time winner of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. In 2018, she founded BALDWIN FOR THE ARTS (https://baldwinforthearts.org), a residency serving writers, composers, interdisciplinary, and visual artists of the Global Majority. Her most recent novel, Remember Us, is set in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.
Patrick Nolan is Vice President, Publisher of Penguin Books and imprint of Penguin Random House. He joined the company in 2000 as sales director and is now the book-publishing right hand to Viking, overseeing their paperback reprints and a select list of Penguin trade paperback originals as well as the backlist. As publisher, the authors he works with includes Amor Towles, Tana French, Rebecca Makkai, Ruth Ozeki, Bessel van der Kolk, and Robert Greene and the estates of Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, and John Steinbeck. The authors he edits includes Roddy Doyle, Matt Haig, Rio Cortez, Donal Ryan, Mark Wolynn, Keyu Jin, and Christopher Castellani. Nolan is a trustee of the Fine Arts Work Center.
About Summer Salons
The Summer Salons events are designed to encourage a lively exchange of ideas by bringing together prominent figures from the arts and culture community to the Work Center. Scheduled over three Friday evenings from mid-May to late August, this series provides a unique opportunity for audiences in Provincetown and beyond to connect directly with some of today’s most influential creative minds. Set against the historic backdrop of the Stanley Kunitz Common Room, the Summer Salons invite these notable leaders to share their insights, experiences, and knowledge during an evening of conversation, learning, and community engagement. The result is a rare form of creative communion.
Proceeds from these paid events ensure that the Fine Arts Work Center is able to provide free arts and culture events for the Outer Cape Cod community year round.
