The East Hampton Library’s 21st annual Authors Night, held August 9 under a sweeping white tent in Herrick Park, proved once again that literature still has star power in the Hamptons. With more than 2,000 guests, record-breaking book sales, and over half a million dollars raised for the library’s programs, the evening was the most successful in its history.
One hundred authors—from literary heavyweights like Robert A. Caro, Maureen Dowd, and Neil deGrasse Tyson to Palm Beach names like Bobbi Brown, Wilbur Ross and Katherine Bryan—signed books, posed for photos, and mingled over wine and hors d’oeuvres at the sold-out cocktail party. Later, the celebrations moved to private homes across East Hampton for intimate author-hosted dinners, every one of them booked to capacity.
Billed as “the premier literary event of the Hamptons,” Authors Night has grown into one of the country’s largest and most glittering library fundraisers—a place where books and their writers are celebrated with the same glamour as a summer gala.
