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- Nancy Alfaro Marisa de los Santos (Fiction and Mystery) Marisa de los Santos began her career as a poet, then switched to the novel. “I love the big open space of the novel,” she said. “I love being immersed in a different world and being in the company of people who are profoundly not me.”	- Nancy Alfaro Geraldine Brooks (Fiction and Mystery) Geraldine Brooks tells the story of the Sarajevo Haggadah (a 14th-century illuminated Hebrew manuscript) in her historical fiction “People of the Book.” The former Wall Street Journal war correspondent got the idea for the book in a bar in Bosnia.	- Jane Sargus Pauline and Arthur Frommer (Home and Family) “It’s incumbent upon us to offset the high cost of transportation with lower prices on land, for hotels and food,” said Arthur Frommer, who launched his travel-guide series more than 50 years ago. Daughter Pauline also dispenses travel tips.
- Nancy Alfaro Philippa Gregory (Fiction and Mystery) Philippa Gregory writes historical fiction about England’s royals from a woman’s point of view rather than “stereotypes, as presented by males with gender prejudices.” A case in point is her portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, in “The Other Queen.”	- Susie Neel Joseph Bruchac (Teens and Children) Joseph Bruchac depicts Native American participation in the Civil War in his children’s book “Marching Toward the Thunder.” “It’s a story of struggle between brothers and sisters, who each had to fight for their family,” he said.	- Katherine Blood Michelle Singletary (Home and Family) “Make do with what you have,” advises syndicated financial columnist Michelle Singletary. “I’m not panicking because I learned how to handle money from my grandma, Big Mama. She taught me to be frugal.”
- Barry Wheeler Kimberly Dozier (History and Biography) The CBS News correspondent provides a first-hand account of the plight of injured men and women in Iraq in her book “Breathing the Fire.” On assignment in Baghdad, Dozier was critically injured by a car-bomb that killed two of her colleagues.	- Barry Wheeler Michael Dobbs (History and Biography) Michael Dobbs describes how close the world came to a nuclear war during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in his book “One Minute to Midnight.” I wrote the book because the book I wanted to read didn’t exist.”	- Michaela McNichol Dionne Warwick (Children) Singer Dionne Warwick told a standing-room-only crowd in the Childrens pavilion the story of “Little D,” who grew up on Sterling Street in East Orange, N.J., and discovered her musical talent.

Children

Sponsored by AT&T

• Tiki Barber
• Jan Brett
• Marc Brown
• Laura Bush & Jenna Bush Hager
• David A. Carter
• Doreen Cronin
• Betsy Lewin
• Kadir Nelson
• Doreen Rappaport
• David Shannon
• Judy Sierra
• Dionne Warwick
  

Teens & Children

Sponsored by Target

• Mary Brigid Barrett
• Joseph Bruchac
• Sharon M. Draper
• Neil Gaiman
• Steven Kellogg
• Katherine Paterson
• Andrea Davis Pinkney
• Matthew Reinhart
• Robert Sabuda
• Jon Scieszka
• Charles R. Smith, Jr.
• R. L. Stine
• Judith Viorst
  

Fiction & Fantasy

Sponsored by The James Madison Council

• Louis Bayard
• Geraldine Brooks
• Sandra Brown
• Marisa de los Santos
• Philippa Gregory
• Andrew Klavan
• James McBride
• Brad Meltzer
• Richard Price
• Francine Prose
• Peter Robinson
• Salman Rushdie
• Alexander McCall Smith

History & Biography

Sponsored by AARP

• Rick Atkinson
• Michael Dobbs
• Kimberly Dozier
• Tony Horwitz
• Kay Bailey Hutchison
• Immaculée Ilibagiza
• Walter Isaacson
• David Maraniss
• Cokie Roberts
• Bob Schieffer
• Daniel Schorr
• Paul Theroux
• Gordon S. Wood

Home & Family

Sponsored by Target

• Ellen Birnbaum
• Warren Brown
• Eleanor Clift
• George Duran
• Arthur Frommer
• Pauline Frommer
• Julie Morgenstern
• Mike Richman
• Nancy Schulman
• Cathy Scott
• Michelle Singletary

Poetry

Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts

• Eavan Boland
• Dan Chiasson
• Elsa Cross
• Michael Lind
• Michael S. Harper
• Molly Peacock
• Stanley Plumly
• J. Allyn Rosser
• Kay Ryan, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-2009

Special Guests

• Bob Lanier and NBA/WNBA players: Chris Duhon and Ivory Latta
  
• River of Words featuring Pamela Michael and David Gewanter

Sponsors of the 2007 National Book Festival

Distinguished Benefactor
Target

Charter Sponsors
AT&T
The Washington Post

Patrons
Institute of Museum and Library Services
The James Madison Council
National Endowment for the Arts

Contributors
Barnes & Noble
Kalima
The Libary of Congress Federal Credit Union
NBA/WNBA
PBS
Penguin Group (USA)
Scholastic Inc.
US Airways

Friends
Marshall B. Coyne Foundation, Inc.
National Endowment for the Humanities

Special Thanks
C-SPAN2: Book TV
The Junior League of Washington once again provided hundreds of volunteers to support the National Book Festival and the promotion of reading and literacy.

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