Kepler's Literary Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization dedicated to enriching and inspiring the community through literary and cultural programs. We provide a forum for celebrated writers, artists, and original thinkers to discuss their ideas, insights, perspectives and stories with audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
Our Upcoming Events
This month the Kepler’s Non-Fiction Book Club will discuss Road to Surrender: Three Men and The Countdown to the End of World War II.
New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and Fuzz, Mary Roach, joins us for a rollicking exploration of human anatomy with her new book: Replaceable You.
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, joins us to explore his vision’s promise—and how it can be redeemed for the future.
In these anxiety-inducing times, Meditations for Mortals offers a source of solace and inspiration, and an aid to a saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled life.
Join us for a conversation with the authors of The Life Machines, a groundbreaking new book that explores how harnessing our mitochondria can enhance our everyday lives.
Join us to dive into the revelatory worlds of California’s most exciting writers, and discover how their books uncover our history and can help us imagine our shared future with one of the sharpest editors working today, John Freeman.
Join us to hear from Jane Chen, whose revelatory memoir, Like A Wave We Break, is brimming with candor, humor and hard-won wisdom.
Writers! Join us for a panel about the craft of writing from three of the Bay Area’s top writing instructors. Authors Nina Schuyler, Jordan Rosenfeld, and Christine Walker will discuss craft and how to plan your next move as a writer.
This 90-minute seminar combines the deep pleasure of reading an exceptional novel with the depth of a college-level lecture.
We’re thrilled to announce that tickets are now on sale for our first fundraising event celebrating 70 years of storytelling. Please join us to be in the presence of friends who delight in books and share our belief in the power and joy of reading in this community.
The author of The Day the Crayons Quit takes to the stage with his hilarious new chapter book, No Sam! and the Meow of Deception.
Celebrated author Gary Shteyngart joins us with his poignant and bitterly funny new novel, Vera, or Faith.
This month the Kepler’s Non-Fiction Book Club will discuss Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard.
Multi-award winning author Adam Johnson joins us with The Wayfinder, his historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen.
Deep Cuts Book Club is back with another round of female writing that changed literature.
Bruce Henderson returns to Kepler’s with his untold history of a top-secret operation in the run-up to D-Day, in which American flyers and Allied spies carried out some of the most daring cloak-and-dagger operations of World War II.
Free! Meet and hear from local authors Richard Osborn, Lori Ostlund, Raj Oza, and Shobha Rao.
Calling all aspiring writers for a creative writing workshop with two highly accomplished novelists and experienced writing teachers.
The bestselling, beloved author, Ann Packer, returns to Kepler’s with her new novel Some Bright Nowhere.
Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson takes to the stage with his profound meditation on what running can teach us about our limits and our lives.
This month the Kepler’s Non-Fiction Book Club will discuss The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War by Catherine Grace Katz.

Premier Events
Kepler's Literary Foundation offers a nationally recognized program of live cultural and literary events for the general public that covers a range of global and local topics.
These events feature a wide variety of public figures, including historians, social commentators, scientists and science writers, physicians, scholars, journalists, educators, novelists, chefs, business and technology leaders, and many other subject matter experts from around the world.
Residents of our community interact with recognized experts face to face and learn from their ideas, insights, and experiences.

Youth Events
Kepler's Literary Foundation produces literary events at Kepler's and in local schools, including the public schools serving East Palo Alto and the Belle Haven neighborhood in Menlo Park.
The goal of the youth program is to ignite a passion in students for reading and writing. Outstanding writers, artists, and original thinkers meet face-to-face with students to discuss the importance and power of storytelling.
These programs encourage students to tackle the challenges intrinsic to their own lives and communities and to find their voice through their own writing.

This Is Now with Angie Coiro
Veteran journalist Angie Coiro hosts a series of smart, funny and insightful on-stage interviews with notable newsmakers, writers, and artists.
Angie's interviews with Roxane Gay, Jane Mayer, Susan Faludi and more have drawn standing room only crowds at Kepler's and displayed the brilliance behind some of today's top thinkers and new insights into some of today's most complex issues.

Literary Seminars
Kepler's Literary Foundation hosts literary seminars and classes for those who are interested in a deeper involvement with reading and writing literature.
Each Literary Seminar combines the profound pleasure of reading an exceptional novel with the depth of a college-level lecture providing insightful interpretation and greater understanding.