Tue, Jun 30
|The Book Shop of Needham
An Evening with Meg Waite Clayton, author of Typewriter Beach
Please join us for an evening of discussion and Q&A with Meg Waite Clayton, author of Typewriter Beach. Meg will be in conversation with Laurie Witt. Laurie has moderated author events with Emily Franklin, Renee Rosen, Hank Phillippi Ryan, and many more.
Time & Location
Jun 30, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
The Book Shop of Needham, 283 Chestnut St, Needham, MA 02492, USA
About the event
Instant USA Today Bestseller · Washington Post 5 Works of Historical Fiction to Read This Summer · Top 10 Library Read · Los Angeles Times 10 Reads for a Beach Day · Publishers Weekly Summer Read · Woman’s World Book Club Pick · Zibby Books That’ll Make You Swoon · AARP Summer Read
Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood during its golden age, Typewriter Beach is an unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock's new star.
1957. Isabella Giori is ten months into a standard seven-year studio contract when she auditions with Hitchcock. Just weeks later, she is sequestered by the studio’s “fixer” in a tiny Carmel cottage, waiting and dreading.
Meanwhile, next door, Léon Chazan is annoyed as hell when Iz interrupts his work on yet another screenplay he won’t be able to sell, because he’s a blacklisted…