Maureen Hogan Lutz
Storytelling is part of our DNA
It is common to every known culture from the beginning of time.
Before humans could write, stories were handed down through the generations. Then came the printing press, the first novels, textbooks, newspapers, followed by the typewriter and computer.
Fiction and non-fiction help us to understand our world.
2025 Author Talks
Maureen's Gardening Journey
Newtown Garden Club
Booth Memorial Library, May 26, 2026, 1p.m.
25 Main Street, Newtown, CT
Follow along with Maureen as she tells the story of her awakening to the wonders of the natural world and her enduring kinship with Mother Nature that evolved over decades of gardening from a backyard in Queens, New York, to acreage in Connecticut.
Book Signing to follow.
Gardening with Heart
Engaging with Nature to Nurture the Heart
Maureen's approach to gardening that emphasizes
the benefit of listening to Mother Nature
in planning, planting and living with a garden.
Author Talk
Ruth Keeler Memorial Library Sunday, December 7, 2025, 3 p. m. 276 Titicus Road, North Salem NY
As Americans prepare for a bittersweet Christmas in 1944, a young bride boards a train at New York's Pennsylvania station and embarks on a cross-country train journey to reunite with her soldier husband.
The adventure is life-changing, not only for her, but for a troubled navy nurse who is being sent back to the war after surviving the Japanese attack on Corregidor three years earlier. This tenderly written story offers a glimpse into life on the homefront when love, loss, and hope consumed the human heart.
Author Talk
Founders Hall, Ridgefield CT Friday, November 21, 2025
Set in the turbulent 1960s and beyond, Hero Can I Be recounts the journey of Jamie Corrigan from his hardscrabble childhood on the streets of New York to the battlefields of Vietnam. He returns a troubled young man to a beleaguered America embroiled in antiwar protests, political assassinations, civil rights clashes, and a cultural revolution. Jamie is on a downward spiral of self-loathing, fueled by alcohol and despair, when someone from his past enlists his help to locate a boyhood friend and fellow soldier who has disappeared in Central America. To take on the challenge will mean staying sober and reclaiming his warrior spirit for another chance to become the hero he always longed to be.