Author Talk: David Horsey on “Beach of Stars”
March 19, 2026
Doors open 6 p.m. | Event 6:30–8:30 p.m.
4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105
A special event for UWAA members!
The UW Alumni Association welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist David Horsey, ’75, to chat about his new novel, “Beach of Stars.” David will be joined in conversation with UWAA Executive Director Paul Rucker, ’95, ’02, followed by an audience Q&A and a book signing.
Copies of “Beach of Stars” will be available for sale at this event!
Admission
UWAA life members get exclusive early registration access to this event!
Admission is FREE; advance registration required.
UWAA events and programs are open to everyone regardless of race, sex or other identity.
Featured Speaker
David Horsey , ’75
About the novel
“Beach of Stars” opens with a 21-year-old college student working a summer job in Mexico. In an act of whimsy, he takes a beer to a young woman on a secluded beach. That simple decision ignites a chain of events that, twenty years on, lures him from his career in city politics into a search for the now-fugitive woman — a journey of revelation that climaxes in a star-crossed reckoning with the past.
More than a romance, more than a mystery, “Beach of Stars” is an odyssey steered by the small choices, impulsive actions, bad timing and happy coincidences that propel human lives toward calamity or bliss.
National Book Award-winning author Timothy Egan, ’81, calls David Horsey’s Beach of Stars “a wonderful novel” and “a masterful bit of storytelling.” National Book Award winner Charles Johnson says, “the novel is amazingly good.” Best-selling author Will Schwalbe puts it simply: “The book is terrific.”
Know before you go
- Doors open at 6 p.m.
- Limited free parking available in the University Book Store parking lot.
- Closest light rail stop: U-District.
- Contact UWAA customer service at uwalumni@uw.edu if you need to use an entrance without stairs.
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