Tucson Festival of Books

Helen Schulman (She/Her)



Denise Bosco

Helen Schulman is The New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, including "Come with Me" and "This Beautiful Life." She is the fiction chair at the Writing Program at The New School and executive director of WriteOnNYC.com. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation of the Arts, Sundance, Aspen Words, and Columbia University. She lives in New York City.

Awards: Guggenheim Fellow, Pushcart Prize, NYFA Fellow, Aspen Words Fellow, Sundance Fellow, Tennesse Williams Fellow (Columbia University)


Scheduled events:
Choices and Consequences
Life rarely offers simple answers, and neither do these three novels. In this session, authors Jane Hamilton, Mike Powell and Helen Schulman will explore choices and consequences ... and the grey area where human impulse and responsibility first collide.

Student Union Sabino (Seats 87)  View this venue on the Festival map
Sat, Mar 14, 2:30 pm - 3:25 pm
Fiction / Literature
Signing area: UA Campus Store Book Sales (Mall) (following presentation)  View this venue on the Festival map

Panelists: Jane Hamilton, Mike Powell, Helen Schulman
Moderator: Susannah Myerson
Sponsors: Session made possible courtesy of Joan and Adrian Van Loozenoord, Charlie and Janet Lynn, Peggy Sharp
Love and the Stories We Tell
What drives our desire to connect? How do love and longing reveal who we really are? In this panel, our three authors will explore the exhilaration, confusion, and vulnerability of intimacy. They will reflect on the humor, tenderness, and heartbreak that define our closest relationships.

Student Union Sabino (Seats 87)  View this venue on the Festival map
Sun, Mar 15, 2:30 pm - 3:25 pm
Fiction / Literature
Signing area: UA Campus Store Book Sales (Mall) (following presentation)  View this venue on the Festival map

Panelists: Naeem Murr, Helen Schulman, Alejandro Varela
Moderator: Rae Goodnight
Sponsors: Session made possible courtesy of Joan and Adrian Van Loozenoord, Chuck and Carol Otto

Books:
Fools for Love
Stories
Fiction / Literature
Random House
July 2025
ISBN 9780593536254
208 pages
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Lucky Dogs
A novel
Fiction / Literature
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
May 2024
ISBN 9780593469866
336 pages
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