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
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.
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.
National Book Award–winning author George Packer discusses his gripping new fable of imperial collapse with Dave Eggers.
Acclaimed photographer Dick Evans and award-winning writer and nature guide Hannah Hindley come together to discuss In the Shadow of the Bridge: Birds of the Bay Area. They will be joined by John Epperson, President of the San Mateo Bird Alliance.
Join us to celebrate Nina McConigley’s debut novel which has been described as “spirited and witty, stylish and audacious.”
Dr Elizabeth Vartkessian's clients are guilty of the most heinous crimes. But as Dr Vartkessian tells it, everyone has someone who loves them. Even people who have committed murder. Join us to hear her talk about her new book The Deserving: What the Lives of the Condemned Reveal about American Justice.
Join us to hear Anne Fadiman, one of America’s most beloved nonfiction writers, talk about their new collection of evocative personal essays.
Join us to hear bestselling author of Swamplandia! discuss her latest epic The Antidote with Adam Johnson.
