Classic Tales Re-Told
Featured writers: Jeaniene Frost, Naima Simone, and Sara Benincasa
Snow White meets the mafia in Naima Simone’s Huntsman and Jeaniene Frost has a new retelling of Beauty and the Beast! Learn how these writers rework these classic tales for modern audiences. Moderated by Sara Benincasa, author of Great, a retelling of The Great Gatsby.
Book signing times (all signings take place in the First Floor Lobby of the library)
🖊️Sara Benincasa: 12:00 – 12:20
🖊️Jeaniene Frost: 12:00 – 12:20
🖊️Naima Simone: 12:00 – 12:20
About the writers:
SARA BENINCASA is a Chicago-based author, journalist, comedian and actress. She’s published a memoir, Agorafabulous!, two novels, Great and D.C. Trip; and a book of essays, Real Artists Have Day Jobs. She’s adapted two of her books for TV/film and has written for Marvel Comics and Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Her 2025 essay for the New York Times Magazine, “An Agoraphobe Goes to the Grocery Store,” illustrated by Nata Metlukh, won the American Society of Magazine Editors Award for Best Illustrated Story. She holds an M.A. in Education from Teachers College at Columbia University and a B.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College.
JEANIENE FROST is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of fantasy romance. Her works include the Night Huntress series, the Night Prince series, the Night Rebel series, the Broken Destiny series, and the upcoming Beautiful And Beastly series. Jeaniene’s novels have also appeared on the Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, ABA Indiebound, and international bestseller lists. Foreign rights for Jeaniene’s novels have sold to twenty-two different countries.
USA Today Bestselling author NAIMA SIMONE loves writing sizzling romances with heart, a touch of humor and snark. Her books have been featured in The Washington Post and Entertainment Weekly, and described as balancing “crackling, electric love scenes with exquisitely rendered characters caught in emotional turmoil.” She is wife to Superman, or his non-Kryptonian, less bullet proof equivalent, and mother to the most awesome kids ever. They all live in perfect, sometimes domestically-challenged bliss in the southern United States.
A Curse of Beasts and Magic
by Jeaniene Frost
Beauty and the Beast meets The Witcher, except Beauty IS the Beast in this compelling new Romantasy by bestselling author Jeaniene Frost.
Great
by Sara Benincasa
In this contemporary retelling of The Great Gatsby, by comedian Sara Benincasa, a teenage girl becomes entangled in the romance and drama of a Hamptons social circle and is implicated in a scandal that shakes the summer community.
Huntsman: A Mafia Romance
by Naima Simone
Welcome to the dark world of The Hunted Kingdom where the daughters of modern-day mob families are reimagined fairytale princesses like you’ve never seen before. In Huntsman, family is power…and power is everything.