2ND ACT: Charles Monagan

 Charles Monagan’s career as a writer and editor began in 1972, after graduating from Dartmouth.

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From 1989 to 2013, he was the editor of Connecticut Magazine. In 1997, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Reporting from the national City and Regional Magazine Association. In 2012, he received the Connecticut Press Club’s Mark Twain Award for Distinguished Journalism, a lifetime award.

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Charley is the author of ten books, including The Neurotic’s Handbook, The Reluctant Naturalist, and How to Get a Monkey into Harvard. Additionally, he penned the book and lyrics for the musical Mad Bomber, which was produced in 2011 and won first place in the Academy for New Musical Theatre’s 2012 International Search for New Musicals.

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His most recent books are Carrie Welton   (2016), a novel, which was a semifinalist for the M.M. Bennetts Award for historical fiction, Connecticut Icons (2017) and The Easter Confession (2020), called a "superior whodunit" by Publishers Weekly.

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