Lance Richardson and Laura van den Berg

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND LIVE STREAMING | Lance Richardson and Laura van den Berg will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.

Lance Richardson is the author of two internationally acclaimed books, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen (2025), which was a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row (2018), which is being adapted for television by a major studio. He is the recipient of several other awards and fellowships, including a year-long residency at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

Laura van den Berg was born and raised in Florida. She is the author of six works of fiction, most recently the novel State of Paradise. Her books have been twice shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard Fiction Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Laura teaches fiction and directs the creative writing program at Harvard University. Her next novel, Ring of Night, is forthcoming from FSG.