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You’re Invited to a Niblack Presentation by 2025 Niblack Visiting Artist Bestselling Author Beatriz Williams

You’re Invited to a Niblack Presentation by 2025 Niblack Visiting Artist Bestselling Author Beatriz Williams

2025 Helen Cudahy Niblack ’42 visiting artist Beatriz Williams is a bestselling and award-winning author of historical fiction. She will visit campus to speak about her latest work and her career journey.

Admission is free to Beatriz's presentation (April 18, 10:15-11:30am) in the Audrey Bruce Currier Library, but space is limited, so please RSVP.

Beatriz Williams is the New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author of Husbands and Lovers, The Summer Wives, The Secret Life of Violet Grant, A Hundred Summers, the Wicked City series, and several other works of historical fiction, including five novels in collaboration with fellow bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig. A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA in Finance from Columbia University, Beatriz worked as a communications and corporate strategy consultant in New York and London before her first novel was published in 2012. Beatriz’s books have won numerous awards, have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and appear regularly in bestseller lists around the world.

Born in Seattle, Washington, Beatriz now lives near the Connecticut shore with her husband and four children, where she divides her time between writing and laundry.

Established by Austi Brown ’73 in honor of her mother, Helen Cudahy Niblack, Class of 1942, the Niblack Arts Lecture Series brings a variety of literary, performing, and fine artists, artisans, and designers to Foxcroft to share their work and experience while engaging students in the creative process.