Mary Beth Keane (she/her)

Jesse Dittmar

Mary Beth Keane is the author of four previous novels, including the New York Times bestseller "Ask Again, Yes." She was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction writing and has received citations from the National Book Foundation, PEN America, and the Hemingway Society. Born in the Bronx to parents from the west of Ireland, she lives in New York with her husband and two sons.

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Awards: Guggenheim Fellow

Books:

Whale Harbor

A Novel
Fiction / Literature
Scribner
September 2026
ISBN 9781668224632
Hardcover, 0 pages

Ask Again, Yes

A Novel
Fiction / Literature
Scribner
May 2020
ISBN 9781982106997
Paperback, 432 pages

The triumphant New York Times Bestseller *The Tonight Show Summer Reads Pick* Named one of the Best Books of the Year by People, Vogue, Parade, NPR, and Elle "A gem of a book. " —Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo How much can a family forgive?Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie NYPD cops, are neighbors in the suburbs. What happens behind closed doors in both houses—the loneliness of Francis’s wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian’s wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come. In Mary Beth Keane's extraordinary novel, a lifelong friendship and love blossoms between Kate Gleeson and Peter Stanhope, born six months apart. One shocking night their loyalties are divided, and their bond will be tested again and again over the next thirty years. Heartbreaking and redemptive, Ask Again, Yes is a gorgeous and generous portrait of the daily intimacies of marriage and the power of forgiveness. More/less