Gathering of Friends LUNCHEON

KRISTIN HARMEL is the New York Times bestselling, USA Today bestselling, and #1 international bestselling author of The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau, The Paris Daughter, The Book of Lost Names, The Winemaker’s Wife, and a dozen other novels that have been translated into more than 35 languages and are sold all over the world. Many of her novels have been optioned for film and television. Her latest masterpiece, Meet Me in Paris, will be released July 28, 2026.

Kristin has been writing professionally since the age of 16, when she began her career as a sportswriter, covering Major League Baseball and NHL hockey for a local magazine in Tampa Bay, Florida in the late 1990s. In addition to a long magazine writing career, primarily writing and reporting for PEOPLE magazine (as well as articles published in American Baby, Men’s Health, Woman’s Day, Travel + Leisure, Ladies’ Home Journal, and…