Jane Austen Tea Party: A 250th Birthday Celebration

Join us for an in-person Tea Party celebrating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday in partnership with Harney & Sons, with authors Adelle Waldman, Brandon Taylor, and Jennifer Egan. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd-floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

ACCESSIBILITY:

Strand Book Store is an ADA-compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator.

ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at events@strandbooks.com by Dec. 2 to request.

Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred.

For further information on accessibility in this space, or to make a request, please contact events@strandbooks.com

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To celebrate the anniversary of Jane Austen’s birthday, Vintage is re-releasing Austen’s beloved titles, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey, each with a brand-new introduction by acclaimed contemporary authors, Jennifer Egan, Lauren Groff, Brandon Taylor, Nicola Yoon, Adelle Waldman, and Sandra Cisneros!

Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels Real Life and The Late Americans. He lives in New York.

Photo credit: Lou Rouse

Adelle Waldman is the author of the novels, Help Wanted (W.W. Norton, 2024) and The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. (Henry Holt, 2013). Help Wanted has been named a best book of 2024 by The Economist, NPR, and Time, among others, and was recommended by Barack Obama. The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. was named one of 2013’s best books by The New Yorker, The Economist, The New Republic, NPR, Slate, Bookforum, The Guardian, and many others. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University.

Photo credit: Pieter M. Van Hattem

Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. Her 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read. Her previous novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was recently named one of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Her new novel, The Candy House, a companion to A Visit From the Goon Squad, was named one of the New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2022 and one of President Obama’s favorite reads of the year. She has served as President of PEN America and twice as Artist-in-Residence in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has taught courses in 19th and 20th-century literature. Her year-long reporting on street homelessness and supportive housing in New York City was published in The New Yorker in September 2023.