# Event Details - **Event Name**: NYT Bestselling Author LYNN CULLEN Celebrates WHEN WE WERE BRILLIANT - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 04:00 pm - **Event Description**: LYNN CULLEN, author of Mrs. Poe, The Sisters of Summit Avenue, and Twain's End, will discuss her new book WHEN WE WERE BRILLIANT.About this EventTICKETS$15.00 (plus fees): Single ticket for admission to author talk.$35.00 (plus fees): Single ticket for admission to author talk, one signed/personalized hardback copy of book, photo with author, priority seating, and 1 entry in drawing to win a visit to your book club by Lynn Cullen to discuss When We Were Brilliant.Lynn Cullen will be happy to sign and personalize books purchased at the event. ABOUT LYNN CULLENLynn Cullen is the bestselling author of historical novels The Sisters of Summit Avenue, Twain’s End, Mrs. Poe, Reign of Madness, and I Am Rembrandt’s Daughter.Her novel, Mrs. Poe, was named a Book of the Week by People Magazine, a Target Book Club Pick, an NPR 2013 Great Read, an Indie Next List selection. It was also a book of the month at Costco, an Oprah Book of the Week, and Atlanta magazine named it one of the Best Books of 2013.Twain’s End was a People Magazine Book of the Week, a Townsend Prize finalist, an Indie Next selection, and named a Book All Georgians Should Read by the Georgia Center for the Book. Lynn’s novels have been translated into seventeen languages and she has appeared on PBS’s American Masters.Lynn grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the fifth girl in a family of seven children. She learned to love history combined with traveling while visiting historic sites across the U.S. on annual family camping trips. She attended Indiana University in Bloomington and Fort Wayne, and took writing classes with Tom McHaney at Georgia State.She wrote children’s books as her three daughters were growing up, while working in a pediatric office, and later, on the editorial staff of a psychoanalytic journal at Emory University. While her camping expeditions across the States have become fact-finding missions across Europe, she still loves digging into the past. However, she does not miss sleeping in musty sleeping bags. Or eating canned fruit cocktail.She now lives in Atlanta with her husband, their dog, and two unscrupulous cats.ABOUT WHEN WE WERE BRILLIANTThey were an unlikely pair—a blond bombshell and a photographer determined to be taken seriously—but Marilyn Monroe and Eve Arnold would make a deal that would change their lives in this dazzling new novel from the national bestselling author of Mrs. Poe and The Woman with the Cure.In 1952, Norma Jeane Baker follows documentary photographer Eve Arnold into a powder room on the night they first meet. She has a proposition for her. Norma Jeane created Marilyn Monroe to be photographed, and she wants Eve to do it. Eve is better than anyone she’s seen at revealing a person’s inner truth. Together they can help each other. Together, she says, they can make something brilliant.Skeptical of this cipher of a young woman, Eve demurs. She’s looking for more serious subjects than this ambitious starlet. But she keeps getting drawn back into Marilyn’s orbit, and the women come to recognize something in each other—something fundamental. Nothing will get in the way of what they want, and when Marilyn’s star takes off to teetering heights, neither will ever be the same.A lavish and transporting novel, When We Were Brilliant captures the halcyon days of an icon and the grit of women determining their own futures as it explores the exceptional and complicated friendship between Marilyn Monroe and Eve Arnold. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/marietta/nyt-bestselling-author-lynn-cullen-celebrates-when-we-were-brilliant/100001972847888141 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, trips-adventures, business, camping, workshops, fine-arts, dog - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 17.74, max: 34.44, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Marietta - **state**: GA - **country**: United States - **location**: Switzer Library - **lat**: 33.9498426 - **long**: -84.5442948 - **full address**: Switzer Library, Switzer Library, Marietta, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: NYT Bestselling Author LYNN CULLEN Celebrates WHEN WE WERE BRILLIANT - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/f03ad733c72020d96d612aaa9cad39c67657d598a6537d619e2f234f108f8a80-rimg-w981-h551-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1765545537 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is NYT Bestselling Author LYNN CULLEN Celebrates WHEN WE WERE BRILLIANT being held? - **A:** NYT Bestselling Author LYNN CULLEN Celebrates WHEN WE WERE BRILLIANT takes place on Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 04:00 pm at Switzer Library, Switzer Library, Marietta, United States. - **Q**: How much do tickets cost for NYT Bestselling Author LYNN CULLEN Celebrates WHEN WE WERE BRILLIANT? - **A:** Ticket prices for NYT Bestselling Author LYNN CULLEN Celebrates WHEN WE WERE BRILLIANT range from USD 18 to USD 34 depending on the ticket type. Here's a full breakdown of available ticket types:Ticket TypePriceAvailabilitySingle Admission Ticket: LYNN CULLENUSD 18 + USD 2 fee + USD 1 taxAvailableTicket Bundle: LYNN CULLENUSD 34 + USD 2 fee + USD 2 taxAvailable - **Q**: Who is organizing NYT Bestselling Author LYNN CULLEN Celebrates WHEN WE WERE BRILLIANT? - **A:** NYT Bestselling Author LYNN CULLEN Celebrates WHEN WE WERE BRILLIANT is organized by Cobb County Library Foundation and Bookmiser. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** NYT Bestselling Author LYNN CULLEN Celebrates WHEN WE WERE BRILLIANT is ideal for learners, working professionals, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Marietta, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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