Author Allegra Goodman to speak at Bluffton luncheon

Bestselling author Allegra Goodman will be featured at a luncheon and book signing scheduled for April 14 at the Belfair Clubhouse in Bluffton.

The event begins at noon and includes lunch, followed by a discussion of Goodman’s latest novel, This Is Not About Us, which was selected for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Book Club.

Goodman is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Isola, a Reese’s Book Club selection and Libby Award winner, and Sam, a Read With Jenna Book Club selection. Her earlier works include The Chalk Artist, which won the Massachusetts Book Award, as well as Intuition, The Cookbook Collector, Paradise Park and Kaaterskill Falls, a National Book Award finalist.

Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker and has been included in The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories.

Raised in Honolulu, Goodman studied English and philosophy at Harvard University and earned a doctorate in English literature from Stanford University. She has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Salon Award for Fiction and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.

Tickets for the luncheon and book signing are $67. Registration is required by April 8 and can be completed through the USC Beaufort Center for the Arts website: www.uscbcenterforthearts.com