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Meet American Girl Book Author Valerie Tripp
July 17, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Meet Valerie Tripp, author of American Girl books about Maryellen, Molly, Kit, Samantha, Josefina, and, of course, Williamsburg’s own Felicity Merriman. Bring your books to be signed—and your questions! Valerie is happy to explain how Colonial Williamsburg provided her with inspiration, solid historical background, and boundless delight while she was creating Felicity’s stories.
Valerie Tripp (Yale ’73; Harvard GSE ’82) is the award-winning author of American Girl books, plays, and short stories. Tripp also wrote a STEM series for National Geographic Kids and is the executive editor of the Boys Camp series. She has adapted classics for Sterling Publishers and has written numerous leveled readers, songs, stories, nonfiction essays, skills book pages, poems, and plays for educational publishers…MORE
Tickets are $20 person, kids 5 and under are $10.
