Whitaker, Towles and Tóibín will come to Palm Beach for an author series

The 2025 series also includes a “bonus” conversation on Jan. 20 with Griffin Dunne, an actor, director and producer whose “The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir” chronicles his upbringing in Hollywood and Manhattan. This event will be hosted by Terri Sriberg and Donald Ephraim and will kick off the MorseLife Sun & Stars International Film Festival.

Whitaker’s “All the Colors of Darkness” is set in a small Missouri town in 1975. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted amid a rash of disappearances, she is saved by an unlikely hero. “All the Colors of Darkness is about what lies in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of hope,” MorseLife said.

In “Table for Two,” Towles shares six short stories based in New York and one short story based in Los Angeles. The seven plays explore the consequences of relationships and what happens when people face a new reality in their lives. In the short story “Eve in Hollywood,” Towles continues the story of Evelyn Ross, a character from his best-selling novel “Rules of Civility.”

Tóibín’s “Long Island” is a two-decade look into the future from his novel “Brooklyn,” which includes one of that novel’s main characters, Eilis Lacey. In “Long Island,” Eilis’s marriage faces its biggest challenge. “The silences in Eilis’s life are thunderous and dangerous, and there is no one more skillful than Tóibín at giving them language,” MorseLife said.