Day for Book Lovers Featuring Bestselling Authors Charles Belfoure and Matthew Quick

Join the Friends of the Carroll County Public Library for the 5^th Annual

Day for Book Lovers Featuring Bestselling Authors Charles Belfoure ( Love May Fail and Silver Linings Playbook) 

and Matthew Quick (House of Thieves and The Paris Architect)

$45 – Individual (includes lunch and copies of Belfoure’s House of Thieves and Quick’s Love May Fail)

$400 - Table (seats up to 10) - Click here to buy a table

Questions? Need help registering? Call 443-293-3196 or email greatreads@carr.org

Matthew Quick

Matthew Quick is the bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, which was made into an Oscar winning film, directed by David O. Russell and starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.

After graduating from LaSalle University, Quick worked as a high school teacher in Haddonfield, New Jersey, teaching literature and film, coaching soccer and basketball, and counseling troubled teens.  He received his Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Goddard College in 2007 and an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from LaSalle University in 2013. 

In Quick’s newest book, Love May Fail, an aspiring feminist and underappreciated housewife embarks on an odyssey to find goodness in the world, and to save her beloved high school English teacher who retired after a traumatic incident. Booklist’s review of Love May Fail notes, “Quick, an ex-teacher, nails the symbiotic student-teacher relationship, with all of its attendant baggage, squarely on the head in this engaging slice-of-life dramedy with definite big-screen potential.”

Charles Belfoure

Charles Belfoure is the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect, described by Malcolm Gladwell as "a beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war." 

An architect by profession, Belfoure graduated from the Pratt Institute and Columbia University, and taught at Pratt as well as Goucher College. His area of specialty is historic preservation.  He has published several architectural histories, one of which won a Graham Foundation national grant for architectural research.

His new book, House of Thieves is set in New York in 1886. A respectable architect finds himself connected to a notorious gang of thieves and killers that rule the underbelly of the city. To pay off his son’s gambling debt, he uses his inside knowledge of high society mansions and museums to craft a robbery even the smartest detectives won't solve.  In its starred review, Publishers Weekly notes “Belfoure’s writing opens a window to those living both gilded and tarnished lives... He holds together each and every thread of the novel, resulting in a most memorable, evocative read.”

Thank you to HarperCollins Publishers for their partnership in making  Matthew Quick’s visit possible.