• Speaker Series: Marie Howe

    Key West Public Library Palm Garden 700 Fleming Street, Key West, United States

    Marie Howe is the author of New and Selected Poems, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, as well as four other volumes of poetry: Magdalene, The Kingdom of […]

  • Speaker Series: Christina Baker Kline

    Key West Public Library Palm Garden 700 Fleming Street, Key West, United States

    Christina Baker Kline is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including Orphan Train, The Exiles, Please Don’t Lie (with Anne Burt), and the forthcoming The Foursome […]

  • Speaker Series: Meg Cabot

    Key West Public Library Palm Garden 700 Fleming Street, Key West, United States

    Meg Cabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign, but learned at an early age that a good storyteller […]

  • Speaker Series: John Copenhaver

    Key West Public Library Palm Garden 700 Fleming Street, Key West, United States

    John Copenhaver is an award-winning author whose latest novel, Hall of Mirrors, was named a New York Times Crime Novel of the Year and won the Left Coast Crime Award […]

  • Annual Gala: William Kent Krueger

    Key West Public Library 700 Fleming Street, Key West, FL, United States

    Bestselling author William Kent Krueger will be our honored guest for an unforgettable evening of books, conversation, and celebration on February 8, 2027. The Friends of the Key West Library […]

  • Speaker Series: Rina Bousalis

    Key West Public Library Palm Garden 700 Fleming Street, Key West, United States

    Rina Bousalis, PhD, is an associate professor of social studies education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. She was previously a […]

  • Speaker Series: Paula McLain

    Key West Public Library Palm Garden 700 Fleming Street, Key West, United States

    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, […]

  • Speaker Series: Jen Golbeck

    Key West Public Library Palm Garden 700 Fleming Street, Key West, United States

    Jen Golbeck is the “internet’s dog mom” and creator of the social media sensation @TheGoldenRatio4. A professor at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies, she is a popular […]

  • Speaker Series: Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan & Stephen Kitsakos

    Key West Public Library Palm Garden 700 Fleming Street, Key West, United States

    Behind Key West’s sun-drenched streets, turquoise waters, and colorful characters lies a darker world of secrets, scandal, and crime. In Key West Noir, editors Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan and Stephen Kitsakos […]

  • Speaker Series: Jean Kwok

    Key West Public Library Palm Garden 700 Fleming Street, Key West, United States

    Jean Kwok is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Dominion, The Leftover Woman, Searching for Sylvie Lee, Girl in Translation, and Mambo in Chinatown. Her books have […]