Speaker Series: Paula McLain

Paula McLain is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Paris Wife, Circling the Sun, Love and Ruin, and When the Stars Go Dark. Her latest novel, Skylark, a Good Morning America January 2026 pick, follows two parallel stories in Paris across different centuries in prose that reviewers called luminous and deeply humane.

She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan in 1996, and is the author of two collections of poetry and a memoir, Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, about growing up in the California foster care system. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, Huffington Post, the Guardian and elsewhere.

Date: February 22, 2027

Time: 6 p.m.

Location: Key West Public Library Palm Garden, 700 Fleming St

All speaker series events begin at 6:00 p.m. Speaker Series talks are free. Seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis. Gates open at 5:30. We will make every effort to seat everyone. In case of rain, the event will be held inside the library.