Historical Fiction Panel

Juliette Fay is an award-winning, bestselling author of historical and contemporary fiction. Her first published novel, Shelter Me, was designated as one of the ten best works of fiction in 2009 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress. It was named to the Indie Next List of the American Booksellers Association, chosen as one of six novels for Target’s 2009 Bookmarked Club, and was a Good Housekeeping featured Book Pick. Deep Down True was short-listed for the 2011 Women’s Fiction Award of the American Library Association. The Shortest Way Home was named to Library Journal’s Top 5 Best Books of 2012: Women’s Fiction. The Tumbling Turner Sisters was a USA Today bestseller and the Costco Pennie’s Book Club Pick in January 2017. City of Flickering Light was published in 2019, Catch Us When We Fall in 2021, and The Half of It in 2023. Her work has been translated into Polish, German, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Hungarian, Italian, Turkish, and Slovak. In her latest book The Harvey Girls (2025), Fay—known for her “well-drawn characters and vibrant historical backdrops” (Library Journal)—transports us to 1920s America with this big-hearted tale of two very different women who must learn to trust each other as one tries to save her family and the other to save herself. Perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah and Kristina McMorris.

Sarah Stewart Taylor is the author of the Sweeney St. George series, set in New England, the Maggie D’arcy mysteries, set in Ireland and on Long Island, and Agony Hill and Hunter's Heart Ridge, set in rural Vermont in the 1960s. Sarah has been nominated for an Agatha Award, the Dashiell Hammett Prize, and the MWA Sue Grafton Memorial Award and her mysteries have appeared on numerous Best of the Year lists. A former journalist and teacher, she writes and lives with her family on a farm in Vermont where they raise sheep and grow blueberries. Her latest book is Hunter’s Heart Ridge (2025).

Elizabeth Graver’s fifth novel, Kantika, was inspired by her grandmother Rebecca, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul and whose shape-shifting life journey took her to Spain, Cuba and New York. Kantika was awarded the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Julia Ward Howe Award, the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction, and a National Jewish Book Award. It was named a Best Historical Fiction Book of 2023 and Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, and a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Lilith and Libby, and translated into German and Turkish. Elizabeth’s fourth novel, The End of the Point, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction. Her other novels are Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and Best American Essays. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Yaddo and MacDowell, she teaches at Boston College.

The Silver Unicorn Bookstore will have copies of books by all three authors at the event for purchase and signing.