General admission tickets will go on sale on Tuesday, February 9, 2027 at 12 pm. Season tickets are on sale here.

Lily King will read from her new novel Heart the Lover, followed by an on-stage conversation with a local author/journalist. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing. The event is presented as part of the 2026/2027 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. 

New York Times bestselling author Lily King has written six novels, including Writers & Lovers, which was chosen as a top-ten best book of 2020 by The Washington Post, NPR, People Magazine, and The Los Angeles Times and which has been optioned by the BBC as a limited series. She is also the author of the story collection Five Tuesdays in Winter. Her work has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Kirkus Prize, the New England Book Award, the Maine Book Award, and a Whiting Award.

King comes to Houston with her newest novel Heart the Lover, an intimate and magnificent story of desire, friendship, and the lasting impact of first love. A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Heart the Lover was called by The Boston Globe’s Priscilla Gilman “one of the most emotionally devastating and soulfully wise novels I have ever read . . . heartrending, swoonily romantic, rigorously clear sighted.” The Washington Post’s Ron Charles praised, “Remarkable . . . Only Lily King could tell a story so steeped in sorrow and so filled with hope.” Written with superb wit, emotional sensitivity, and a delightful connective thread to Writers & Lovers, this is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.