Upcoming Author Events & Readings
5 upcoming author events and readings from Hingham Public Library, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All readings in Greater Boston →
Thu Oct 15 · 7pm
David C. Frost reads from and discusses his first thriller, If Bones Could Speak, book one of his Jawbreaker series. Set between 1930s Prohibition-era Boston and the present, it follows dentist Curtis Robinson, who is drawn into rival Boston mob violence after a lakeside explosion rocks his quiet New Hampshire town. Frost is a retired New Hampshire dentist; a book signing follows.
Sat Oct 17 · 3pm
Mel Allen presents Here in New England, a collection of his stories about New England people and places that he likens to “miniature pictures of New England that reveal a larger life around them.” Allen, who spent nearly half a century at Yankee, became its fifth editor in 2006 and retired in 2025. His previous book is A Coach’s Letter to His Son.
Tue Oct 20 · 7pm
Historian Daniel A. Gagnon discusses A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse (2021), his biography of one of the women hanged in 1692, covering 17th-century Salem and Nurse’s role in the events and challenging earlier interpretations of the Salem Village witch-hunt. Gagnon is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and serves on the board of the Rebecca Nurse Homestead Museum in Danvers.
Thu Nov 12 · 7pm
Anthropologist Andrea Rugh presents In Search of Worldviews: What Anthropology Can Tell Us About the Middle East, arguing that anthropological study is the best data-driven way to understand cultural views in the region, and sharing vignettes from her fieldwork. Rugh lived 25 years in the Middle East, worked on development projects for USAID, UNICEF and Harvard, and has written fourteen books on the region.
Tue Nov 17 · 7pm
Boston city archaeologist Joe Bagley, who runs the Boston Archaeology Program, talks about the program’s work and his book A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts, which tells the city’s story through items discovered beneath it. His second book is a companion on Boston’s 50 oldest buildings and the history of their preservation. Copies will be sold and signed, with all proceeds going to the archaeology program.
