Julia Glass is the author of six previous books of fiction, including the best-selling Three Junes, winner of the National Book Award, and I See You Everywhere, winner of the Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Book Award. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Glass is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emerson College. She lives with her family north of Boston. This is Julia’s second appearance at the library, having spoken about I See You Everywhere in 2009.

The Wilton Reads program will culminate with an author talk by Julia Glass on Tuesday, May 9 at Wilton Library. During her talk, the author will be recognized with the Grodin Family Fine Writers award.

Copies of Vigil Harbor are currently available via the library’s catalog, including eBooks and eAudiobooks available to download to mobile devices on the Libby by OverDrive app. Please call the Reference Desk at (203) 762-6350 or email reference@wiltonlibrary.org for help with obtaining a copy of the book.    

To encourage readership and kick off the event, a limited number of paperback copies of Vigil Harbor will be given away at the library free of charge courtesy of Fairfield County Bank on Monday, April 10th.

This is the seventeenth season of Wilton Reads. The program originated in 2005 with a reading of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. 

The media sponsor for Wilton Reads 2023 is GOOD Morning Wilton.