Verse & Vino
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Verse & Vino presented by PNC is Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation’s signature annual fundraiser. For over decade, this celebration of reading, writing and the joy of libraries – shared with a community of readers and New York Times best-selling authors – has become one of our region’s most anticipated events.
Thursday, November 12, 2026
Charlotte Convention Center
2026 Author Line-Up
Isaac
Fitzgerald
Lucy
Foley
R. F.
Kuang
Walter
Mosley
About the authors and their latest releases
Isaac Fitzgerald
Author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald is a frequent book review commentator on The Today Show. His latest book, American Rambler, follows a year-long journey retracing Appleseed’s path from Massachusetts to Indiana as he walks, occasionally drives, and once floats downstream toward a reckoning with loss and grief and a deeper understanding of humanity.
Lucy Foley
The London-based author is the author of five bestselling novels including The Paris Apartment, The Guest List, The Hunting Party, and The Midnight Feast. Her latest novel Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel is a collaboration with the estate of Agatha Christie featuring beloved octogenarian sleuth Miss Marple.
R. F. Kuang
The Oxford, Cambridge and Yale Universities scholar is also the author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, and Katabasis. Her new release Taipei Story follows college student Lily Chen as she navigates life while in a grueling language immersion program, hoping to connect with the culture she inherited but never fully understood.
Walter Mosely
One of the most versatile and admired writers in America, Mosley is the author of more than sixty critically acclaimed books that cover a wide range of ideas, genres, and forms. In his latest installment of the Joe King Oliver series Hanging and Burning, a dying gangster’s plea sends Joe on a quest for a missing woman across America’s coasts, unraveling a dark and violent family history along the way.
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