An evening with author, Steven Rowley with his new book, "Guncle Abroad"

Steven Rowley

Steven is the New York Times bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, The Editor, named by NPR as one of the Best Books of 2019, The Guncle, a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for 2021 Novel of the Year and winner of the 22nd Thurber Prize for American Humor, and The Celebrants, a TODAY Show Read With Jenna Book Club pick. His fiction has been published in twenty languages. All of his books are in development for feature film or television adaptation.

Originally from Portland, Maine, he is a graduate of Emerson College and currently resides in Palm Springs with his husband, the writer Byron Lane, and two rescue dogs.

Synopsis of Gunkle Abroad! Patrick O’Hara is back—five years after stepping in as caretaker for his niece and nephew, he’s thriving professionally but personally adrift as he approaches fifty. When…