Dawn Tripp is the acclaimed, bestselling author of five novels and winner of multiple awards. Her newest book, Jackie, was released in June of 2024. In this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Tripp has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention. This spare, exquisite novel is a window into the world of a woman who led many different lives: Jackie, Jacks, Jacqueline, Miss Bouvier, Mrs. Kennedy, Mrs. Onassis, Jackie O. It is at once a deeply human story and a captivating work of imagination that comes right up against what she was thinking and feeling, what she was afraid of, fought for, and believed in.
Her fourth novel, Georgia, is a national bestseller and was a finalist for the 2016 New England Book Award and winner of the 2017 Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. Georgia is a dazzling work of historical fiction which brings the iconic artist Georgia O’Keeffe to life, explores her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and follows her quest to become an independent artist. A breathtaking work of imagination, Georgia is the story of a passionate young woman and her search for love and artistic freedom, which The New York Times called “Complex and original, Georgia conveys O’Keeffe’s joys and disappointments, rendering both the woman and the artist with keenness and consideration.”
Tripp is also the author of Game of Secrets, Moon Tide, and The Season of Open Water, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Conjunctions, NPR, and others. Her books have been published into a dozen languages. She serves on the executive board of the Boston Book Festival and on the board of Gnome Surf: A non-profit surf therapy organization focused on creating a culture shift towards kindness, love, and acceptance for athletes of all abilities. She graduated from Harvard and lives in Massachusetts with her sons.