# Event Details - **Event Name**: Author event with Lauren Groff - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Parnassus Books and Montgomery Bell Academy are pleased to present an evening with Lauren Groff to celebrate her new book, Brawler: Stories.About this EventParnassus Books, in partnership with Montgomery Bell Academy, are thrilled to present an evening with Lauren Groff, in conversation with a special guest, as they discuss Lauren's new book, Brawler: Stories.This ticketed event will be held in Montgomery Bell Academy's Dead Poets Society Room, located in the Mary Helen Lowry Building (close to the South Wilson entrance). The event is on Thursday, February 26th and will begin at 6:30, with doors opening at 5:30.Tickets:Each ticket is $34.50 and includes one general admission seat and one signed copy of Brawler. Additional signed copies of Brawler along with a limited number of backlist titles, will be availsble for purchase. There will be a signing line for personalization directly following the event on stage.Parking:Parking is free on the MBA campus. There is a garage located at 205 South Wilson Boulevard (East side of MBA's campus). You may also park in the Vine Street Church parking lot or in any of the surface lots on campus.About the book:A stunning, fierce collection from a master of the short story and one of the most important writers of our timeRead alone, each story in Lauren Groff's electric collection is an individual triumph, bold, agile, and packed with power. Read together, they hum in exhilarating resonance. Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region -- from New England to Florida to California -- these nine stories reflect and expand upon a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans' dark and light angels."In every human there is both an animal and a god wrestling unto death," one character tells us. Among those we see caught in this match are a young woman suddenly responsible for her disabled sibling, a hot-tempered high school swimmer in need of an adult, a mother blinded by the loss of her family, and a banking scion endowed with a different kind of inheritance. Motivated by love, impeded by the double edges of other peoples' good intentions, they try to do the right thing for as long as they can.Precise, surprising, and provocative, anchored by profound insight into human nature, Brawler reveals the repeated, sometimes heartbreaking turning points between love and fear, compassion and violence, reason and instinct, altruism and what it takes to survive.About the author:Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times-bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and the celebrated short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies' Choice Award, France's Grand Prix de l'Héroïne, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into thirty-six languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, where she and her husband own the independent bookstore The Lynx. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/nashville/author-event-with-lauren-groff/100001965347370892 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, sports, workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fauthor-event-with-lauren-groff-tickets-1965347370892 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 38.66, max: 38.66, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Nashville - **state**: TN - **country**: United States - **location**: Dead Poets' Society Room at Montgomery Bell Academy - **lat**: 36.1279647 - **long**: -86.8374858 - **full address**: Dead Poets' Society Room at Montgomery Bell Academy, 4001 Harding Pike, Nashville, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Parnassus Books (https://allevents.in/org/parnassus-books/22751274) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/6cbce3161fc5524fbb2aef53137e0fec492a3ab69dd5f929f495dd7c37a33452-rimg-w1200-h600-dc181915-gmir.jpg?v=1765072831 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://dyn-image.allevents.in/generate-image?v=4&title=Author+event+with+Lauren+Groff&date=26+Feb ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Dead Poets' Society Room at Montgomery Bell Academy, 4001 Harding Pike, Nashville, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 38.66 up to 38.66 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Parnassus Books - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, literary-art, sports, workshops - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Author event with Lauren Groff ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Author event with Lauren Groff", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/6cbce3161fc5524fbb2aef53137e0fec492a3ab69dd5f929f495dd7c37a33452-rimg-w1200-h600-dc181915-gmir.jpg?v=1765072831", "startDate": "2026-02-26", "endDate": "2026-02-26", "url": "https://allevents.in/nashville/author-event-with-lauren-groff/100001965347370892", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Dead Poets' Society Room at Montgomery Bell Academy", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "4001 Harding Pike", "postalCode": "37205", "addressLocality": "Nashville", "addressRegion": "TN", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "36.1279647", "longitude": "-86.8374858" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Parnassus Books and Montgomery Bell Academy are pleased to present an evening with Lauren Groff to celebrate her new book, Brawler: Stories.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "2026-02-26", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "lowPrice": "38.66", "highPrice": "38.66", "price": "38.66", "url": "https://allevents.in/nashville/author-event-with-lauren-groff/100001965347370892" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/nashville/author-event-with-lauren-groff/100001965347370892", "price": "38.66", "name": "General Admission + signed book" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Parnassus Books", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/parnassus-books/22751274", "description": "Parnassus Books is an independent bookstore located in Nashville, Tennessee. 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