Schedule

All National Book Festival events on Aug. 31 will take place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. NOTE: Using the “Add to Calendar” tool places individual events in your personal calendar. It does not constitute a reservation or ticket to the event, nor does it guarantee you a seat.

Stage

NOTE: Using the “Add to Calendar” tool places individual events in your personal calendar. It does not constitute a reservation or ticket to the event.

Main Stage

Event | lectures and symposia

Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction: Richard Ford
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT Hall D (Level 2, North Building) Richard Ford receives the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and discusses his life's work with Marie Arana. His most recent novel is "Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book" (Ecco). Introduced by: Carla Hayden. Stage: Main Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall D (Level 2, North Building) U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discusses "My Own Words" (Simon & Schuster) with Nina Totenberg. Introduced by: Carla Hayden. Stage: Main Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

José Andrés Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT Hall D (Level 2, North Building) José Andrés discusses "Vegetables Unleashed" (Ecco) and "We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time" (Ecco) with Diane Rehm. Introduced by: Carla Hayden. Stage: Main Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

David Brooks Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall D (Level 2, North Building) David Brooks discusses "The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life" (Random House) with David M. Rubenstein. Stage: Main Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Raina Telgemeier Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT Hall D (Level 2, North Building) Raina Telgemeier discusses "Share Your Smile: Raina’s Guide to Telling Your Own Story" (Graphix/Scholastic). Introduced by: Warren Bernard. Stage: Main Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

David McCullough Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall D (Level 2, North Building) David McCullough discusses "The Pioneers: The Heroic Stories of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West" (Simon & Schuster) with Marie Arana. Stage: Main Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Michael Beschloss Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT Hall D (Level 2, North Building) Michael Beschloss discusses "Presidents of War" (Crown) with David M. Rubenstein. Stage: Main Stage

Children's Green Stage

Event | lectures and symposia

Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
9:30 am - 9:55 am EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm launch their new book "The Evil Princess vs. the Brave Knight" (Random House). Introduced by: Lee Ann Potter. Stage: Children's Green Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
9:30 am - 9:55 am EDT Hall A (Lower Level) Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg launch their new book "AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet" (Chronicle). Introduced by: Christina Barron. Welcome by: Carly Mitchell. Stage: Children's Green Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Brian Floca Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:05 am - 10:30 am EDT Hall A (Lower Level) Brian Floca discusses "Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11" (Atheneum/Richard Jackson). Introduced by: Nora Krug. Stage: Children's Green Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Linda Sue Park Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:40 am - 11:05 am EDT Hall A (Lower Level) Linda Sue Park launches her new book "Nya’s Long Walk: A Step at a Time" (Clarion). Introduced by: Eun Yang. Stage: Children's Green Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Sherri Duskey Rinker Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:15 am - 11:40 am EDT Hall A (Lower Level) Sherri Duskey Rinker launches her new book "Three Cheers for Kid McGear!" (Chronicle). Introduced by: John Kelly. Stage: Children's Green Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Cece Bell Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:50 am - 12:15 pm EDT Hall A (Lower Level) Cece Bell launches her new book "Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot!" (Candlewick). Introduced by: Nicole Y. Chung. Stage: Children's Green Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Sophie Blackall Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:25 pm - 12:50 pm EDT Hall A (Lower Level) Sophie Blackall discusses "Hello Lighthouse" (Little, Brown). Introduced by: Guy Lamolinara. Stage: Children's Green Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Jon Klassen Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:00 pm - 1:25 pm EDT Hall A (Lower Level) Jon Klassen discusses "Circle" (Candlewick). Introduced by: John Kelly. Stage: Children's Green Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Fred Bowen Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:35 pm - 2:00 pm EDT Hall A (Lower Level) Fred Bowen launches his new book "Speed Demon" (Peachtree). Introduced by: Guy Lamolinara. Stage: Children's Green Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:10 pm - 2:35 pm EDT Hall A (Lower Level) Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham launch their new book "Best Friends" (First Second). Introduced by: Michael Cavna. Stage: Children's Green Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Jennifer Swanson Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:45 pm - 3:10 pm EDT Hall A (Lower Level) Jennifer Swanson launches her new book "Save the Crash-Test Dummies" (Peachtree). Introduced by: Stephanie Merry. Stage: Children's Green Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:20 pm - 3:45 pm EDT Hall A (Lower Level) Henry Louis Gates Jr. discusses "Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow" (Scholastic). Introduced by: Peggy McGlone. Stage: Children's Green Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Pablo Cartaya Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:55 pm - 4:20 pm EDT Hall A (Lower Level) Pablo Cartaya launches his new book "Each Tiny Spark" (Kokila/Random House). Introduced by: Catalina Gomez. Stage: Children's Green Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Matthew Gray Gubler Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:10 pm EDT Hall A (Lower Level) Matthew Gray Gubler discusses "Rumple Buttercup: A Story of Bananas, Belonging and Being Yourself" (Random House) with Juanita Giles. Stage: Children's Green Stage

Children's Purple Stage

Event | lectures and symposia

Lucy Ruth Cummins Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:05 am - 10:30 am EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Lucy Ruth Cummins discusses "Truman" (Atheneum). Introduced by: Anya Creightney. Stage: Children's Purple Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Juana Medina Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:40 am - 11:05 am EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Juana Medina launches her new book "Juana & Lucas: Big Problemas" (Candlewick). Introduced by: Christina Barron. Stage: Children's Purple Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Adam Rubin Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:15 am - 11:40 am EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Adam Rubin discusses "High Five" (Dial). Introduced by: Guy Lamolinara. Stage: Children's Purple Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Mac Barnett and Greg Pizzoli Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:50 am - 12:25 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Mac Barnett and Greg Pizzoli launch their new book "Hi, Jack!" (Viking). Mac Barnett also discusses "The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown" (Balzer + Bray) and "Kid Spy: The Impossible Crime" (Orchard). Introduced by: Sasha Dowdy. Stage: Children's Purple Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Victoria “V.E.” Schwab Children's Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:35 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Victoria "V.E." Schwab launches her new book "Tunnel of Bones" (Scholastic). Introduced by: Sasha Dowdy. Stage: Children's Purple Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Max Brallier Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:10 pm - 1:35 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Max Brallier launches his new book "The Last Kids on Earth and the Midnight Blade" (Viking). Introduced by: Sasha Dowdy. Stage: Children's Purple Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Molly Brooks Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:45 pm - 2:10 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Molly Brooks discusses "Sanity & Tallulah" (Disney-Hyperion). Introduced by: Maria Russo. Stage: Children's Purple Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Fabien Cousteau Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:20 pm - 2:45 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Fabien Cousteau discusses "Great White Shark Adventure" (Simon & Schuster). Introduced by: Joe Heim. Stage: Children's Purple Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Gale Galligan and Ann M. Martin Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:55 pm - 3:20 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Gale Galligan and Ann M. Martin launch their new book "The Baby-Sitters Club: Boy-Crazy Stacey" (Graphix/Scholastic) and discuss the entire Baby-Sitters Club series with Mary Beth Albright. Stage: Children's Purple Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Matt Phelan Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 3:55 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Matt Phelan discusses "Knights vs. Monsters" (Greenwillow). Introduced by: Nora Krug. Stage: Children's Purple Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Sharon Robinson Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:05 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Sharon Robinson launches her new book "Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963" (Scholastic). Introduced by: Monica Valentine. Stage: Children's Purple Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Ronald L. Smith Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:40 pm - 5:05 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Ronald L. Smith discusses "The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away" (Clarion). Introduced by: Peggy McGlone. Stage: Children's Purple Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

R.J. Palacio Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:15 pm - 5:45 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) R.J. Palacio discusses "We’re All Wonders" (Knopf) with Roswell Encina. Stage: Children's Purple Stage

Teens

Event | lectures and symposia

Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:00 am - 10:35 pm EDT Room 202 (Level 2, South Building) Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan discuss "Watch Us Rise" (Bloomsbury). Introduced by: Monica Valentine. Stage: Teens
Event | lectures and symposia

Kathleen Glasgow Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:50 am - 11:25 am EDT Room 202 (Level 2, South Building) Kathleen Glasgow discusses "How to Make Friends with the Dark" (Delacorte). Introduced by: Nicole Y. Chung. Stage: Teens
Event | lectures and symposia

Scott Westerfeld Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:40 am - 12:15 pm EDT Room 202 (Level 2, South Building) Scott Westerfeld discusses "Impostors" (Scholastic). Introduced by: Joe Heim. Stage: Teens
Event | lectures and symposia

Holly Black Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 1:05 pm EDT Room 202 (Level 2, South Building) Holly Black discusses "The Wicked King" (Little, Brown). Introduced by: Monica Valentine. Stage: Teens
Event | lectures and symposia

Conversation: Finding Their Voices
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:20 pm - 2:00 pm EDT Room 202 (Level 2, South Building) Mitali Perkins discusses "Forward Me Back to You" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and Misa Sugiura discusses "This Time Will Be Different" (HarperTeen) in a panel conversation moderated by Lee Ann Potter. Stage: Teens
Event | lectures and symposia

Ngozi Ukazu Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:15 pm - 2:50 pm EDT Room 202 (Level 2, South Building) Ngozi Ukazu discusses "Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey" (First Second). Introduced by: Warren Bernard. Stage: Teens
Event | lectures and symposia

Conversation: Growing Up Hard
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:05 pm - 3:45 pm EDT Room 202 (Level 2, South Building) Monica Hesse discusses "The War Outside" (Little, Brown) and Jarrett J. Krosoczka discusses "Hey, Kiddo" (Graphix/Scholastic) in a panel conversation moderated by Maria Russo. Stage: Teens
Event | lectures and symposia

Markus Zusak Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:00 pm - 4:40 pm EDT Room 202 (Level 2, South Building) Markus Zusak discusses "Bridge of Clay" (Knopf). Introduced by: Steven Levingston. Stage: Teens
Event | lectures and symposia

Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:50 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Room 202 (Level 2, South Building) Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks launch their new book "Pumpkinheads" (First Second) in a discussion with Linda Holmes, author of "Evvie Drake Starts Over" (Ballantine). Introduced by: Neely Tucker. Stage: Teens
Event | lectures and symposia

Poetry Slam
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT Room 202 (Level 2, South Building) A poetry slam is a contest in which poets read or recite their poems, which are then judged by a panel. This year's event will include some of the Metro area’s top youth slam groups. Team delegates from DC, Baltimore, and Salisbury, Maryland will compete to be named the festival's top youth slammer by performing new works on books and reading. Emcee: Elizabeth Acevedo.… Stage: Teens

Fiction

Event | lectures and symposia

Rebecca Makkai Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:00 am - 10:45 am EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) Rebecca Makkai discusses "The Great Believers" (Penguin) with Emily Eakin. Welcome by: Carey Cranston. The Fiction Stage is sponsored by The James Madison Council. Stage: Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Conversation: Novels Based on Real People
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:00 am - 11:50 am EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) Louis Bayard discusses "Courting Mr. Lincoln" (Algonquin) and Roxana Robinson discusses "Dawson’s Fall" (Sarah Crichton) in a panel conversation moderated by Emily Eakin. The Fiction Stage is sponsored by The James Madison Council. Stage: Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Sigrid Nunez Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) Sigrid Nunez discusses "The Friend" (Riverhead) with Elizabeth Blair. The Fiction Stage is sponsored by The James Madison Council. Stage: Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Thomas Mallon Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) Thomas Mallon discusses "Landfall" (Pantheon). Introduced by: Amy Argetsinger. The Fiction Stage is sponsored by The James Madison Council. Stage: Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Ann Beattie Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) Ann Beattie discusses "A Wonderful Stroke of Luck" (Viking) with Neely Tucker. The Fiction Stage is sponsored by The James Madison Council. Stage: Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Susan Choi Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) Susan Choi discusses "Trust Exercise" (Henry Holt) with Ron Charles. The Fiction Stage is sponsored by The James Madison Council. Stage: Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Richard Powers Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) Richard Powers discusses "The Overstory" (Norton) with Ron Charles. The Fiction Stage is sponsored by The James Madison Council. Stage: Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Laila Lalami Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) Laila Lalami discusses "The Other Americans" (Pantheon) with Carey Cranston. The Fiction Stage is sponsored by The James Madison Council. Stage: Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Barbara Kingsolver Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) Barbara Kingsolver discusses "Unsheltered" (HarperCollins) with Mandalit del Barco. The Fiction Stage is sponsored by The James Madison Council. Stage: Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Joyce Carol Oates Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
7:00 pm - 7:45 pm EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) Joyce Carol Oates discusses "My Life as a Rat" (Ecco) with Emily Eakin. The Fiction Stage is sponsored by The James Madison Council. Stage: Fiction

Genre Fiction

Event | lectures and symposia

Panel: Western Writers
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:00 am - 10:50 am EDT West Salon GHI (Street Level, South Building) Johnny D. Boggs discusses "The Kansas City Cowboys" (Blackstone), Anne Hillerman discusses "The Tale Teller: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel" (HarperCollins), Paul Andrew Hutton discusses "The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History" (Broadway) and Craig Johnson discusses "Depth of Winter" (Viking) in a panel conversation. Introduced by: Roswell… Stage: Genre Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Victoria “V.E.” Schwab Genre Fiction Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:00 am - 11:45 am EDT West Salon GHI (Street Level, South Building) Victoria "V.E." Schwab discusses "Vengeful" (Tor) with Jennifer Abella. Stage: Genre Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Seanan McGuire Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm EDT West Salon GHI (Street Level, South Building) Seanan McGuire discusses "Middlegame" (Tor). Introduced by: John Kelly. Stage: Genre Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

John Scalzi Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm EDT West Salon GHI (Street Level, South Building) John Scalzi discusses "The Consuming Fire" (Tor). Introduced by: Phoebe Connelly. Stage: Genre Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Brianna Labuskes Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm EDT West Salon GHI (Street Level, South Building) Brianna Labuskes discusses "Girls of Glass" (Thomas & Mercer) with Colleen Shogan. Stage: Genre Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Charlie Jane Anders Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm EDT West Salon GHI (Street Level, South Building) Charlie Jane Anders discusses "The City in the Middle of the Night" (Tor). Introduced by: Phoebe Connelly. Stage: Genre Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Conversation: Historical Novels
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm EDT West Salon GHI (Street Level, South Building) Margaret George discusses "The Splendor Before the Dark: A Novel of the Emperor Nero" (Berkley) and Philippa Gregory discusses "Tidelands" (Atria) in a panel conversation moderated by Petra Mayer. Stage: Genre Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Joe Ide Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm EDT West Salon GHI (Street Level, South Building) Joe Ide discusses "Wrecked: An IQ Novel" (Mulholland). Introduced by: Stephanie Merry. Stage: Genre Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

Sara Paretsky Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm EDT West Salon GHI (Street Level, South Building) Sara Paretsky discusses "Shell Game: A V.I. Warshawski Novel" (William Morrow) with Maureen Corrigan. Stage: Genre Fiction
Event | lectures and symposia

James Ellroy Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
7:00 pm - 7:45 pm EDT West Salon GHI (Street Level, South Building) James Ellroy discusses "This Storm" (Knopf). Introduced by: Robin Dale. Stage: Genre Fiction

History & Biography

Event | lectures and symposia

David Maraniss Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:00 am - 10:45 am EDT Ballroom B (Level 3, South Building) David Maraniss discusses "A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father" (Simon & Schuster) with Adam Kushner. Welcome by: Ryan Ramsey. The History & Biography Stage is sponsored by Wells Fargo. Stage: History & Biography
Event | lectures and symposia

Joanne B. Freeman Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:00 am - 11:45 am EDT Ballroom B (Level 3, South Building) Joanne B. Freeman discusses "The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) with John Haskell. The History & Biography Stage is sponsored by Wells Fargo. Stage: History & Biography
Event | lectures and symposia

Casey Gerald Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm EDT Ballroom B (Level 3, South Building) Casey Gerald discusses "There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir" (Riverhead) with Colleen Shogan. The History & Biography Stage is sponsored by Wells Fargo. Stage: History & Biography
Event | lectures and symposia

Conversation: Native American History
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:55 pm - 2:45 pm EDT Ballroom B (Level 3, South Building) Colin G. Calloway discusses "The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans and the Birth of the Nation" (Oxford University) and David Treuer discusses "The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present" (Riverhead) in a panel conversation moderated by Gal Beckerman. The History & Biography Stage is sponsored by Wells Fargo. Stage: History & Biography
Event | lectures and symposia

Elaine Weiss Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm EDT Ballroom B (Level 3, South Building) Elaine Weiss discusses "The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote" (Viking). Introduced by: Amy Argetsinger. The History & Biography Stage is sponsored by Wells Fargo. Stage: History & Biography
Event | lectures and symposia

Douglas Brinkley Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm EDT Ballroom B (Level 3, South Building) Douglas Brinkley discusses "American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race" (HarperCollins) with David M. Rubenstein. The History & Biography Stage is sponsored by Wells Fargo. Stage: History & Biography
Event | lectures and symposia

Evan Thomas Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm EDT Ballroom B (Level 3, South Building) Evan Thomas discusses "First: Sandra Day O’Connor" (Random House) with Colleen Shogan. Introduced by: Beth Zorc. The History & Biography Stage is sponsored by Wells Fargo. Stage: History & Biography
Event | lectures and symposia

Andrew Roberts Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm EDT Ballroom B (Level 3, South Building) Andrew Roberts discusses "Churchill: Walking with Destiny" (Viking) with David M. Rubenstein. The History & Biography Stage is sponsored by Wells Fargo. Stage: History & Biography
Event | lectures and symposia

Rick Atkinson Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
7:00 pm - 7:45 pm EDT Ballroom B (Level 3, South Building) Rick Atkinson discusses "The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777" (Henry Holt). Introduced by: Manuel Roig-Franzia. Welcome by: David Moskowitz. The History & Biography Stage is sponsored by Wells Fargo. Stage: History & Biography

International

Event | lectures and symposia

Panel: The View From Country—Australia's Aboriginal Writers
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:00 am - 10:50 am EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) Jeanine Leane discusses "Walk Back Over" (Cordite), Brenton McKenna discusses "Ubby’s Underdogs: Return of the Dragons" (Magabala) and Kim Scott launches in America his book "Taboo" (Small Beer) in a panel conversation moderated by Belinda Wheeler. Welcome by: Jane McAuliffe. Stage: International
Event | lectures and symposia

Claudia Salazar Jiménez Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:00 am - 11:45 am EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) Claudia Salazar Jiménez discusses "Blood of the Dawn" (Deep Vellum) with Madhulika Sikka. Introduced by: Jose Miguel Nieto. Stage: International
Event | lectures and symposia

Inga Gaile Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) Inga Gaile discusses "30 Questions People Don’t Ask: The Selected Poems of Inga Gaile" (Pleiades) with Indra Ekmanis. Introduced by: Artūrs Saburovs. Stage: International
Event | lectures and symposia

Amitav Ghosh Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) Amitav Ghosh discusses "Gun Island" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) with Bilal Qureshi. Stage: International
Event | lectures and symposia

Olga Grjasnowa Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) Olga Grjasnowa discusses "City of Jasmine" (Oneworld) with Matthew Davis. Introduced by: Vera Beutin. Stage: International
Event | lectures and symposia

Cristina Rivera Garza Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) Cristina Rivera Garza discusses "The Taiga Syndrome" (Dorothy Project) with Talía Guzmán-González. Introduced by: Beatriz Nava. Stage: International
Event | lectures and symposia

Conversation: South American Fiction
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) Liliana Colanzi discusses "Our Dead World" (Dalkey Archive) and Melba Escobar discusses "House of Beauty" (Fourth Estate) in a panel conversation moderated by Suzanne Schadl. Introduced by: Trinidad Zaldivar. Stage: International
Event | lectures and symposia

Caoilinn Hughes Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) Caoilinn Hughes discusses "Orchid & the Wasp" (Hogarth) with Daniel Mulhall. Stage: International
Event | lectures and symposia

Kim Thúy Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) Kim Thúy discusses "Vi" (Random House) and "Secrets from My Vietnamese Kitchen: Simple Recipes from My Many Mothers" (Random House) with Denis Chouinard. Stage: International
Event | lectures and symposia

María Dueñas Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
7:00 pm - 7:45 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) María Dueñas discusses "The Vineyard" (Atria) with Suzanne Schadl. Introduced by: Santiago Cabanas. Stage: International

Poetry & Prose

Event | lectures and symposia

Jericho Brown and the Poetry Out Loud Winners
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:00 am - 10:45 am EDT Room 145 (Street Level, North Building) Poetry Out Loud is a contest that encourages the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and recitation. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, this program helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their literary heritage. Stage: Poetry & Prose
Event | lectures and symposia

Panel: Fiction Through a Different Lens
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:00 am - 11:50 am EDT Room 145 (Street Level, North Building) Aminatta Forna discusses "Happiness: A Novel" (Atlantic Monthly), R.O. Kwon discusses "The Incendiaries: A Novel" (Riverhead) and Valeria Luiselli discusses "Lost Children Archive: A Novel" (Knopf) in a panel conversation. Introduced by: Anya Creightney. The Poetry & Prose Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Stage: Poetry & Prose
Event | lectures and symposia

Conversation: Poetry With a Purpose
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm EDT Room 145 (Street Level, North Building) Jericho Brown discusses "The Tradition" (Copper Canyon) and Dorianne Laux discusses "Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems" (Norton) in a panel conversation moderated by Rob Casper. The Poetry & Prose Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Stage: Poetry & Prose
Event | lectures and symposia

Conversation: The Art of the Short Story
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm EDT Room 145 (Street Level, North Building) Brendan Mathews discusses "This Is Not a Love Song" (Little, Brown) and Lydia Millet discusses "Fight No More: Stories" (Norton) in a panel conversation moderated by Nora Krug. The Poetry & Prose Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Stage: Poetry & Prose
Event | lectures and symposia

Conversation: The Poetry of Place
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm EDT Room 145 (Street Level, North Building) Natasha Trethewey discusses "Monument: Poems New and Selected" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and Jenny Xie discusses "Eye Level: Poems" (Graywolf) in a panel conversation moderated by Anya Creightney. The Poetry & Prose Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Stage: Poetry & Prose
Event | lectures and symposia

Julia Alvarez Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm EDT Room 145 (Street Level, North Building) Julia Alvarez discusses "In the Time of the Butterflies" (Algonquin) with Marie Arana. Introduced by: Amy Stolls. The Poetry & Prose Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Stage: Poetry & Prose
Event | lectures and symposia

Conversation: The Poetry of Silence
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm EDT Room 145 (Street Level, North Building) Sheila Black discusses "The Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked: The Fiction of Disability" (Cinco Puntos) and Ilya Kaminsky discusses "Deaf Republic: Poems" (Graywolf) in a panel conversation. Introduced by: Rob Casper. The Poetry & Prose Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Stage: Poetry & Prose
Event | lectures and symposia

Panel: How to Raise a Reader
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT Room 145 (Street Level, North Building) Pamela Paul and Maria Russo launch their new book "How to Raise a Reader" (Workman) in a panel conversation with Linda Sue Park, author of "Nya’s Long Walk: A Step at a Time" (Clarion), Jon Scieszka, author of "AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet" (Chronicle), and Renée Watson, author of "Watch Us Rise" (Bloomsbury). Moderated by: Lee Ann Potter. Introduced by: Mary Anne Carter.… Stage: Poetry & Prose
Event | lectures and symposia

Nathan Englander Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:10 pm - 6:55 pm EDT Room 145 (Street Level, North Building) Nathan Englander discusses "kaddish.com: A Novel" (Knopf) with Glen Weldon. Introduced by: Jessica Flynn. The Poetry & Prose Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Stage: Poetry & Prose
Event | lectures and symposia

Panel: The Enduring Appeal of the Odyssey
Saturday
August 31, 2019
7:05 pm - 7:55 pm EDT Room 145 (Street Level, North Building) Alberto Manguel discusses "Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography" (Grove), Madeline Miller discusses "Circe" (Little, Brown) and Emily Wilson discusses her translation of "The Odyssey" (Norton) in a panel conversation. Introduced by: Amy Stolls. The Poetry & Prose Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Stage: Poetry & Prose

Science

Event | lectures and symposia

David Sloan Wilson Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:00 am - 10:45 am EDT Room 146 (Street Level, North Building) David Sloan Wilson discusses "This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution" (Pantheon) with Gal Beckerman. Welcome by: Shari Werb. Stage: Science
Event | lectures and symposia

Jim Ottaviani Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:00 am - 11:45 am EDT Room 146 (Street Level, North Building) Jim Ottaviani discusses "Hawking" (First Second). Introduced by: Michael Cavna. Stage: Science
Event | lectures and symposia

Conversation: Animal Emotions & Human-Animal Relations
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm EDT Room 146 (Street Level, North Building) Alexandra Horowitz launches her new book "Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond" (Scribner) and Frans de Waal discusses "Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves" (Norton) in a panel conversation moderated by Betsy Herrelko. Stage: Science
Event | lectures and symposia

Thomas W. Malone Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm EDT Room 146 (Street Level, North Building) Thomas W. Malone discusses "Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together" (Little, Brown). Introduced by: Adam Kushner. Stage: Science
Event | lectures and symposia

Peter Brannen Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm EDT Room 146 (Street Level, North Building) Peter Brannen discusses "The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions" (Ecco) with John Haskell. Stage: Science
Event | lectures and symposia

Beth Macy Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm EDT Room 146 (Street Level, North Building) Beth Macy discusses "Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America" (Little, Brown) with Pamela Paul. Introduced by: Leonard Bernstein. Stage: Science
Event | lectures and symposia

Daniel Stone Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm EDT Room 146 (Street Level, North Building) Daniel Stone discusses "The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats" (Dutton). Introduced by: Bonnie S. Benwick. Stage: Science
Event | lectures and symposia

Lisa Margonelli Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm EDT Room 146 (Street Level, North Building) Lisa Margonelli discusses "Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology" (Scientific American/Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Introduced by: Leonard Bernstein. Stage: Science
Event | lectures and symposia

David Quammen Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm EDT Room 146 (Street Level, North Building) David Quammen discusses "The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life" (Simon & Schuster). Introduced by: Manuel Roig-Franzia. Stage: Science
Event | lectures and symposia

Douglas Rushkoff Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
7:00 pm - 7:45 pm EDT Room 146 (Street Level, North Building) Douglas Rushkoff discusses "Team Human" (Norton). Introduced by: Steven Levingston. Stage: Science

Understanding Our World

Event | lectures and symposia

David Epstein Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:00 am - 10:45 am EDT Ballroom A (Level 3, South Building) David Epstein discusses "Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World" (Riverhead) with Anne-Imelda Radice. Welcome by: Jon Parrish Peede. The Understanding Our World Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Stage: Understanding Our World
Event | lectures and symposia

Panel: Changemakers
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:00 am - 12:15 pm EDT Ballroom A (Level 3, South Building) Andrea Barnet discusses "Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall and Alice Waters Changed Our World" (Ecco), David W. Blight discusses "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom" (Simon & Schuster) and Andrew Roberts discusses "Churchill: Walking with Destiny" (Viking) in a panel conversation moderated by Kai Bird. Introduced by: Shari Werb. The Understanding Our World Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for… Stage: Understanding Our World
Event | lectures and symposia

Conversation: The Future of Western Capitalism and the Rise of Asia
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm EDT Ballroom A (Level 3, South Building) Parag Khanna discusses "The Future Is Asian" (Simon & Schuster) and Steven Pearlstein discusses "Can American Capitalism Survive?: Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal and Fairness Won’t Make Us Poor" (St. Martin’s) in a panel conversation moderated by David M. Rubenstein. The Understanding Our World Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Stage: Understanding Our World
Event | lectures and symposia

Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:20 pm EDT Ballroom A (Level 3, South Building) Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno launch their new book "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America" (Liveright) in a discussion with Andrea Mitchell. Introduced by: Paul Farhi. The Understanding Our World Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Stage: Understanding Our World
Event | lectures and symposia

David Grann Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm EDT Ballroom A (Level 3, South Building) David Grann discusses "The White Darkness" (Doubleday) with Carlos Lozada. The Understanding Our World Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Stage: Understanding Our World
Event | lectures and symposia

Panel: From the Many, One—Immigration Memoirs
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Ballroom A (Level 3, South Building) Reyna Grande discusses "A Dream Called Home: A Memoir" (Atria), Aleksandar Hemon discusses "My Parents: An Introduction/This Does Not Belong to You" (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and Suketu Mehta discusses "This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in a panel conversation moderated by Carlos Lozada. The Understanding Our World Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Stage: Understanding Our World
Event | lectures and symposia

Conversation: Essential Libraries
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:45 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Ballroom A (Level 3, South Building) Joshua Hammer discusses "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts" (Simon & Schuster) and Alberto Manguel discusses "Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions" (Yale University) in a panel conversation moderated by Carla Hayden. The Understanding Our World Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Stage: Understanding Our World
Event | lectures and symposia

Elaine Pagels Presentation
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:45 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Ballroom A (Level 3, South Building) Elaine Pagels discusses "Why Religion?: A Personal Story" (Ecco) with Jon Parrish Peede. The Understanding Our World Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Stage: Understanding Our World
Event | lectures and symposia

Panel: Race in America
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:45 pm - 7:45 pm EDT Ballroom A (Level 3, South Building) Henry Louis Gates Jr. discusses "Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow" (Penguin), Judge Richard Gergel discusses "Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring" (Sarah Crichton) and Steve Luxenberg discusses "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation" (Norton)… Stage: Understanding Our World

Library of Congress Stage

Event | lectures and symposia

Presenting the Library of Congress' Thomas Jefferson Building
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:00 am - 10:40 am EDT Room 150 (Street Level, North Building) The deputy chief of the visitor engagement office will give an overview of the history of the Library of Congress, beginning with the capital city’s move from Philadelphia to Washington in 1800 and concluding with the Thomas Jefferson Building as it is today. Stage: Library of Congress Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Read and Meet: Comic Books and Pop Culture
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:00 am - 11:40 am EDT Room 150 (Street Level, North Building) Join Library of Congress subject specialists for a moderated community chat about your favorite works and have a chance to learn more with your fellow readers! Stage: Library of Congress Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Copyright Matters
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:00 pm - 12:40 pm EDT Room 150 (Street Level, North Building) Did you know that every one of us both owns and uses copyrighted works? Copyright is all around, especially in literature. Join us to learn how copyright affects you, including the basics of copyright and how it promotes creativity among authors and artists. Stage: Library of Congress Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Veterans History Project
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:00 pm - 1:40 pm EDT Room 150 (Street Level, North Building) Learn about the history of the unique connection between Congress and the Veterans History Project (VHP), as well as the human component of how VHP creates an environment where veterans not only share their stories, but also capture them for posterity in a safe space. Stage: Library of Congress Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Read and Meet: History and Biography
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm EDT Room 150 (Street Level, North Building) Join Library of Congress subject specialists for a moderated community chat about your favorite works and have a chance to learn more with your fellow readers! Stage: Library of Congress Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Copyright Matters
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:00 pm - 3:40 pm EDT Room 150 (Street Level, North Building) Did you know that every one of us both owns and uses copyrighted works? Copyright is all around, especially in literature. Join us to learn how copyright affects you, including the basics of copyright and how it promotes creativity among authors and artists. Stage: Library of Congress Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Read and Meet: Popular Science
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:00 pm - 4:40 pm EDT Room 150 (Street Level, North Building) Join Library of Congress subject specialists for a moderated community chat about your favorite works and have a chance to learn more with your fellow readers! Stage: Library of Congress Stage
Event | lectures and symposia

Panel: Library of Congress Super Users
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:00 pm - 5:40 pm EDT Room 150 (Street Level, North Building) Library of Congress super users are experts at researching and exploring the Library’s collections. Discover how these authors, poets, photographers and even bloggers use the Library’s resources to enhance their work and how the collections often lead them to new fields of research and exploration. Stage: Library of Congress Stage

Library of Congress Pavilion

Event | lectures and symposia

National Book Festival Video
Saturday
August 31, 2019
9:30 am - 10:00 am EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Watch a 30 minute video about the National Book Festival. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Library of Congress Video
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:00 am - 10:05 am EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Watch a short video about the Library of Congress. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Assuring That All May Read: National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:05 am - 10:25 am EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Discover how the Library of Congress, through the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, makes lifelong learning possible for individuals for whom reading may otherwise be impossible. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Finding Your Story: Library of Congress Genealogy Resources
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:25 am - 10:45 am EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Learn how Library of Congress resources can help you explore links to your family's past using a variety of public records, newspaper articles, and unexpected sources to help tell the story of you! Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Publishing Office Presents: Michael Ford and Mark Massey
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:45 am - 11:50 am EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Michael Ford, author of North Mississippi Homeplace, will talk about his work and share some excerpts of film he shot in the 1970s in the N. Mississippi hill country. His friend, musician Mark Muleman Massey, will close out the presentation with acoustic Delta blues. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Acquiring Foreign Materials for the National Collection
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:50 am - 12:10 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Put yourself in the shoes of a foreign acquisitions librarian at the Library of Congress! Learn how we make selections, what we acquire and what we do not acquire, and finally test your knowledge with an interactive quiz. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Audio-Visual Collections at the Library of Congress
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Interested in finding out more about audio and visual collections in the Library of Congress? The Library holds one of the largest collections of sound recordings and moving image material in the world. Join Karen and Harrison as they provide an overview of the breadth and depth of the Library’s audio-visual collections, instruction on discovery and access, search strategies, and copyright issues. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

By the People, For the People: Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 12:50 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Learn how you can become a virtual volunteer for the Library of Congress from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Library of Congress Video
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:50 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Watch a short video about the Library of Congress. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Are You Smarter than the Library of Congress?
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:00 pm - 1:20 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) An engaging session for all ages that combines fun with learning about the Library of Congress' history and collections. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Copyright Trivia
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:20 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) An engaging session for all ages that combines fun with learning about the Copyright Office's history, collections and catalogues. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Assuring That All May Read: National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Discover how the Library of Congress, through the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, makes lifelong learning possible for individuals for whom reading may otherwise be impossible. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Library of Congress Video
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:50 pm - 2:05 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Watch a short video about the Library of Congress. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Meet the 2019 National Book Festival Poster Artist: Marian Bantjes
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:05 pm - 2:25 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Acclaimed artist Marian Bantjes will discuss her inspiration for the 2019 National Book Festival poster. Don't miss Marian Bantjes' poster signing session at 11:30 a.m. in Signing Line No. 21. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Dipping From the Well: Treasures from the American Folklife Center Archive
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:25 pm - 2:45 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Steve Winick discusses treasures from the American Folklife Center Archive. Established in 1928, the American Folklife Center Archive is one of the largest archives of ethnographic materials from the U.S. and around the world. The collections include audiovisual documentation of traditional arts, cultural expressions and oral histories. Hear the earliest recordings of Muddy Waters, fiddling that inspired Aaron Copland, and the voices of veterans… Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Yes and Here’s How: Preservation at the Library of Congress
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Explore how the Library of Congress Preservation Directorate ensures the vast and diverse collections are ready to be used in the multitude of ways that are required by contemporary scholarship. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Library of Congress Video
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Watch a short video about the Library of Congress. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Veterans History Program
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:15 pm - 3:35 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Kerry Ward will discuss the special history between Congress and the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. The program offers unique ways to capture veteran stories using a variety of media. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Acquiring Foreign Materials for the National Collection
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:35 pm - 3:55 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Put yourself in the shoes of a foreign acquisitions librarian at the Library of Congress! Learn how we make selections, what we acquire and what we do not acquire, and finally test your knowledge with an interactive quiz. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Library of Congress Video
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:55 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Watch a short video about the Library of Congress. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Are You Smarter than the Library of Congress?
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 4:50 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) An engaging session for all ages that combines fun with learning about the Library of Congress' history and collections. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Copyright Trivia
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:50 pm - 5:10 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) An engaging session for all ages that combines fun with learning about the Copyright Office's history and collections and catalogues. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

Library of Congress Video
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:10 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Watch a short video about the Library of Congress. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion
Event | lectures and symposia

National Book Festival Video
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm EDT Hall B (Lower Level) Watch a 30 minute video about the National Book Festival. Stage: Library of Congress Pavilion

Book Signings

Event | special events

Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm Book Signing Line No. 6
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm sign "The Evil Princess vs. the Brave Knight" (Random House). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg Book Signing Line No. 10
Saturday
August 31, 2019
10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg sign "AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet" (Chronicle). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Anne Hillerman Book Signing Line No. 13
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Anne Hillerman signs "The Tale Teller: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel" (HarperCollins). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Brenton McKenna Book Signing Line No. 18
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Brenton McKenna signs "Ubby’s Underdogs: Return of the Dragons" (Magabala). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Brian Floca Book Signing Line No. 4
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Brian Floca signs "Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11" (Atheneum/Richard Jackson). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Craig Johnson Book Signing Line No. 15
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Craig Johnson signs "Depth of Winter" (Viking). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

David Epstein Book Signing Line No. 5
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) David Epstein signs "Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World" (Riverhead). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

David Maraniss Book Signing Line No. 8
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) David Maraniss signs "A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father" (Simon & Schuster). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

David Sloan Wilson Book Signing Line No. 3
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) David Sloan Wilson signs "This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution" (Pantheon). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Jeanine Leane Book Signing Line No. 17
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Jeanine Leane signs "Walk Back Over" (Cordite). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Johnny D. Boggs Book Signing Line No. 12
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Johnny D. Boggs signs "The Kansas City Cowboys" (Blackstone). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Kim Scott Book Signing Line No. 19
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Kim Scott signs "Taboo" (Small Beer). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Lucy Ruth Cummins Book Signing Line No. 22
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Lucy Ruth Cummins signs "Truman" (Atheneum). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Marian Bantjes National Book Festival Poster Signing Line No. 21
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Marian Bantjes signs the 2019 National Book Festival Poster. Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Paul Andrew Hutton Book Signing Line No. 14
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Paul Andrew Hutton signs "The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History" (Broadway). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Rebecca Makkai Book Signing Line No. 23
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Rebecca Makkai signs "The Great Believers" (Penguin). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan Book Signing Line No. 1
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan sign "Watch Us Rise" (Bloomsbury). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Richard Ford Book Signing Line No. 16
Saturday
August 31, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Richard Ford signs "Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book" (Ecco). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Adam Rubin Book Signing Line No. 2
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Adam Rubin signs "High Five" (Dial). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Aminatta Forna Book Signing Line No. 8
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Aminatta Forna signs "Happiness: A Novel" (Atlantic Monthly). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Claudia Salazar Jiménez Book Signing Line No. 1
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Claudia Salazar Jiménez signs "Blood of the Dawn" (Deep Vellum). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Jim Ottaviani Book Signing Line No. 13
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Jim Ottaviani signs "Hawking" (First Second). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Joanne B. Freeman Book Signing Line No. 6
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Joanne B. Freeman signs "The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Juana Medina Book Signing Line No. 23
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Juana Medina signs "Juana & Lucas: Big Problemas" (Candlewick). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Kathleen Glasgow Book Signing Line No. 12
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Kathleen Glasgow signs "How to Make Friends with the Dark" (Delacorte). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Linda Sue Park Book Signing Line No. 20
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Linda Sue Park signs "Nya’s Long Walk: A Step at a Time" (Clarion). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Louis Bayard Book Signing Line No. 17
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Louis Bayard signs "Courting Mr. Lincoln" (Algonquin). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

R.O. Kwon Book Signing Line No. 9
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) R.O. Kwon signs "The Incendiaries: A Novel" (Riverhead). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Roxana Robinson Book Signing Line No. 18
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Roxana Robinson signs "Dawson’s Fall" (Sarah Crichton). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Sherri Duskey Rinker Book Signing Line No. 7
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Sherri Duskey Rinker signs "Three Cheers for Kid McGear!" (Chronicle). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Valeria Luiselli Book Signing Line No. 10
Saturday
August 31, 2019
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Valeria Luiselli signs "Lost Children Archive: A Novel" (Knopf). Stage: Book Signings
Event | special events

Alexandra Horowitz Book Signing Line No. 13
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Alexandra Horowitz signs "Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond" (Scribner). Stage: Book Signings
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Andrea Barnet Book Signing Line No. 22
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Andrea Barnet signs "Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall and Alice Waters Changed Our World" (Ecco). Stage: Book Signings
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Andrew Roberts Book Signing Line No. 21
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Andrew Roberts signs "Churchill: Walking with Destiny" (Viking). Stage: Book Signings
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Cece Bell Book Signing Line No. 11
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Cece Bell signs "Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot!" (Candlewick). Stage: Book Signings
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David W. Blight Book Signing Line No. 20
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) David W. Blight signs "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom" (Simon & Schuster). Stage: Book Signings
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Dorianne Laux Book Signing Line No. 7
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Dorianne Laux signs "Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems" (Norton). Stage: Book Signings
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Elizabeth Acevedo Book Signing Line No. 9
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Elizabeth Acevedo, emcee of the 2019 National Book Festival Poetry Slam, will sign her books. Stage: Book Signings
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Frans de Waal Book Signing Line No. 14
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Frans de Waal signs "Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves" (Norton). Stage: Book Signings
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Inga Gaile Book Signing Line No. 2
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Inga Gaile signs "30 Questions People Don’t Ask: The Selected Poems of Inga Gaile" (Pleiades). Stage: Book Signings
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Jericho Brown Book Signing Line No. 6
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Jericho Brown signs "The Tradition" (Copper Canyon). Stage: Book Signings
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Mac Barnett and Greg Pizzoli Book Signing Line No. 15
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Mac Barnett and Greg Pizzoli sign "Hi, Jack!" (Viking). Mac Barnett signs "The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown" (Balzer + Bray) and "Kid Spy: The Impossible Crime" (Orchard). Stage: Book Signings
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Raina Telgemeier Photo Line No. 19
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Raina Telgemeier will not be signing or personalizing books. Pre-signed copies of her books, including the recent “Share Your Smile: Raina’s Guide to Telling Your Own Story" (Graphix/Scholastic), are available for purchase in the festival book sales area. If you have bought any of her books at the festival, you are welcome to join her for a photo-op at Signing Line 19 from 1:30… Stage: Book Signings
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Scott Westerfeld Book Signing Line No. 5
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Scott Westerfeld signs "Impostors" (Scholastic). Stage: Book Signings
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Seanan McGuire Book Signing Line No. 4
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Seanan McGuire signs "Middlegame" (Tor). Stage: Book Signings
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Sigrid Nunez Book Signing Line No. 3
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Sigrid Nunez signs "The Friend" (Riverhead). Stage: Book Signings
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Sophie Blackall Book Signing Line No. 1
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Sophie Blackall signs "Hello Lighthouse" (Little, Brown). Stage: Book Signings
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Victoria "V.E." Schwab Book Signing Line No. 8
Saturday
August 31, 2019
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Victoria "V.E." Schwab signs "Tunnel of Bones" (Scholastic) and "Vengeful" (Tor). Stage: Book Signings
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Alberto Manguel Book Signing Line No. 15
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Alberto Manguel signs "Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions" (Yale University) and "Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography" (Grove). Stage: Book Signings
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Amitav Ghosh Book Signing Line No. 9
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Amitav Ghosh signs "Gun Island" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Stage: Book Signings
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Brendan Mathews Book Signing Line No. 10
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Brendan Mathews signs "This Is Not a Love Song" (Little, Brown). Stage: Book Signings
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Casey Gerald Book Signing Line No. 3
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Casey Gerald signs "There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir" (Riverhead). Stage: Book Signings
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Emily Wilson Book Signing Line No. 14
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Emily Wilson signs "The Odyssey" (Norton). Stage: Book Signings
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Fred Bowen Book Signing Line No. 5
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Fred Bowen signs "Speed Demon" (Peachtree). Stage: Book Signings
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Holly Black Book Signing Line No. 12
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Holly Black signs "The Wicked King" (Little, Brown). Stage: Book Signings
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John Scalzi Book Signing Line No. 22
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) John Scalzi signs "The Consuming Fire" (Tor). Stage: Book Signings
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Jon Klassen Book Signing Line No. 4
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Jon Klassen signs "Circle" (Candlewick). Stage: Book Signings
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Joshua Hammer Book Signing Line No. 16
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Joshua Hammer signs "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts" (Simon & Schuster). Stage: Book Signings
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Lydia Millet Book Signing Line No. 11
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Lydia Millet signs "Fight No More: Stories" (Norton). Stage: Book Signings
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Madeline Miller Book Signing Line No. 13
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Madeline Miller signs "Circe" (Little, Brown). Stage: Book Signings
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Max Brallier Book Signing Line No. 18
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Max Brallier signs "The Last Kids on Earth and the Midnight Blade" (Viking). Stage: Book Signings
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Misa Sugiura Book Signing Line No. 21
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Misa Sugiura signs "This Time Will Be Different" (HarperTeen). Stage: Book Signings
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Mitali Perkins Book Signing Line No. 20
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Mitali Perkins signs "Forward Me Back to You" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Stage: Book Signings
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Parag Khanna Book Signing Line No. 6
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Parag Khanna signs "The Future Is Asian" (Simon & Schuster). Stage: Book Signings
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R.J. Palacio Book Signing Line No. 23
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) R.J. Palacio signs "We’re All Wonders" (Knopf). Stage: Book Signings
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Steven Pearlstein Book Signing Line No. 7
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Steven Pearlstein signs "Can American Capitalism Survive?: Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal and Fairness Won’t Make Us Poor" (St. Martin’s). Stage: Book Signings
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Thomas Mallon Book Signing Line No. 1
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Thomas Mallon signs "Landfall" (Pantheon). Stage: Book Signings
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Thomas W. Malone Book Signing Line No. 2
Saturday
August 31, 2019
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Thomas W. Malone signs "Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together" (Little, Brown). Stage: Book Signings
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Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno Book Signing Line No. 22
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno sign "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America" (Liveright). Stage: Book Signings
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Ann Beattie Book Signing Line No. 7
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Ann Beattie signs "A Wonderful Stroke of Luck" (Viking). Stage: Book Signings
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Brianna Labuskes Book Signing Line No. 2
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Brianna Labuskes signs "Girls of Glass" (Thomas & Mercer). Stage: Book Signings
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Colin G. Calloway Book Signing Line No. 15
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Colin G. Calloway signs "The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans and the Birth of the Nation" (Oxford University). Stage: Book Signings
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David Treuer Book Signing Line No. 16
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) David Treuer signs "The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present" (Riverhead). Stage: Book Signings
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Elaine Pagels Book Signing Line No. 14
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Elaine Pagels signs "Why Religion?: A Personal Story" (Ecco). Stage: Book Signings
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Fabien Cousteau Book Signing Line No. 5
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) “Great White Shark Adventure” (Simon & Schuster) Stage: Book Signings
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Jenny Xie Book Signing Line No. 10
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Jenny Xie signs "Eye Level: Poems" (Graywolf). Stage: Book Signings
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Michael Beschloss Book Signing Line No. 1
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Michael Beschloss signs "Presidents of War" (Crown). Stage: Book Signings
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Molly Brooks Book Signing Line No. 21
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Molly Brooks signs "Sanity & Tallulah" (Disney-Hyperion). Stage: Book Signings
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Natasha Trethewey Book Signing Line No. 9
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Natasha Trethewey signs "Monument: Poems New and Selected" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Stage: Book Signings
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Ngozi Ukazu Book Signing Line No. 3
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Ngozi Ukazu signs "Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey" (First Second). Stage: Book Signings
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Olga Grjasnowa Book Signing Line No. 8
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Olga Grjasnowa signs "City of Jasmine" (Oneworld). Stage: Book Signings
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Peter Brannen Book Signing Line No. 19
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Peter Brannen signs "The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions" (Ecco). Stage: Book Signings
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Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham Book Signing Line No. 11
Saturday
August 31, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham sign "Best Friends" (First Second). Stage: Book Signings
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Barbara Kingsolver Book Signing Line No. 12
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Barbara Kingsolver signs "Unsheltered" (HarperCollins). Stage: Book Signings
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Beth Macy Book Signing Line No. 14
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Beth Macy signs "Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America" (Little, Brown). Stage: Book Signings
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Charlie Jane Anders Book Signing Line No. 11
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Charlie Jane Anders signs "The City in the Middle of the Night" (Tor). Stage: Book Signings
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Cristina Rivera Garza Book Signing Line No. 10
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Cristina Rivera Garza signs "The Taiga Syndrome" (Dorothy Project). Stage: Book Signings
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David Brooks Book Signing Line No. 13
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) David Brooks signs "The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life" (Random House). Stage: Book Signings
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David Grann Book Signing Line No. 16
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) David Grann signs "The White Darkness" (Doubleday). Stage: Book Signings
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David Quammen Book Signing Line No. 17
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) David Quammen signs "The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life" (Simon & Schuster). Stage: Book Signings
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Elaine Weiss Book Signing Line No. 9
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Elaine Weiss signs "The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote" (Viking). Stage: Book Signings
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Gale Galligan and Ann M. Martin Book Signing Line No. 15
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Gale Galligan and Ann M. Martin sign "The Baby-Sitters Club: Boy-Crazy Stacey" (Graphix/Scholastic). Stage: Book Signings
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Book Signing Line No. 5
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Henry Louis Gates Jr. signs "Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow" (Scholastic) and "Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow" (Penguin). Stage: Book Signings
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Jarrett J. Krosoczka Book Signing Line No. 8
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Jarrett J. Krosoczka signs "Hey, Kiddo" (Graphix/Scholastic). Stage: Book Signings
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Jennifer Swanson Book Signing Line No. 23
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Jennifer Swanson signs "Save the Crash-Test Dummies" (Peachtree). Stage: Book Signings
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Judge Richard Gergel Book Signing Line No. 4
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Judge Richard Gergel signs "Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring" (Sarah Crichton). Stage: Book Signings
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Julia Alvarez Book Signing Line No. 18
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Julia Alvarez signs "In the Time of the Butterflies" (Algonquin). Stage: Book Signings
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Kim Thúy Book Signing Line No. 21
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Kim Thúy signs "Vi" (Random House) and "Secrets from My Vietnamese Kitchen: Simple Recipes from My Many Mothers" (Random House). Stage: Book Signings
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Matt Phelan Book Signing Line No. 2
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Matt Phelan signs "Knights vs. Monsters" (Greenwillow). Stage: Book Signings
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Monica Hesse Book Signing Line No. 7
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Monica Hesse signs "The War Outside" (Little, Brown). Stage: Book Signings
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Nathan Englander Book Signing Line No. 19
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Nathan Englander signs "kaddish.com: A Novel" (Knopf). Stage: Book Signings
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Sara Paretsky Book Signing Line No. 20
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Sara Paretsky signs "Shell Game: A V.I. Warshawski Novel" (William Morrow). Stage: Book Signings
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Steve Luxenberg Book Signing Line No. 6
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Steve Luxenberg signs "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation" (Norton). Stage: Book Signings
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Susan Choi Book Signing Line No. 3
Saturday
August 31, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Susan Choi signs "Trust Exercise" (Henry Holt). Stage: Book Signings
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Aleksandar Hemon Book Signing Line No. 16
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Aleksandar Hemon signs "My Parents: An Introduction/This Does Not Belong to You" (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Stage: Book Signings
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Daniel Stone Book Signing Line No. 6
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Daniel Stone signs "The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats" (Dutton). Stage: Book Signings
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Douglas Brinkley Book Signing Line No. 7
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Douglas Brinkley signs "American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race" (HarperCollins). Stage: Book Signings
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Douglas Rushkoff Book Signing Line No. 13
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Douglas Rushkoff signs "Team Human" (Norton). Stage: Book Signings
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Ilya Kaminsky Book Signing Line No. 12
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Ilya Kaminsky signs "Deaf Republic: Poems" (Graywolf). Stage: Book Signings
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James Ellroy Book Signing Line No. 19
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) James Ellroy signs "This Storm" (Knopf). Stage: Book Signings
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Joyce Carol Oates Book Signing Line No. 21
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Joyce Carol Oates signs "My Life as a Rat" (Ecco). Stage: Book Signings
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Liliana Colanzi Book Signing Line No. 9
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Liliana Colanzi signs "Our Dead World" (Dalkey Archive). Stage: Book Signings
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Margaret George Book Signing Line No. 2
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Margaret George signs "The Splendor Before the Dark: A Novel of the Emperor Nero" (Berkley). Stage: Book Signings
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María Dueñas Book Signing Line No. 4
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) María Dueñas signs "The Vineyard" (Atria). Stage: Book Signings
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Markus Zusak Book Signing Line No. 3
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Markus Zusak signs "Bridge of Clay" (Knopf). Stage: Book Signings
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Melba Escobar Book Signing Line No. 8
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Melba Escobar signs "House of Beauty" (Fourth Estate). Stage: Book Signings
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Pablo Cartaya Book Signing Line No. 20
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Pablo Cartaya signs "Each Tiny Spark" (Kokila/Random House). Stage: Book Signings
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Philippa Gregory Book Signing Line No. 1
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Philippa Gregory signs "Tidelands" (Atria). Stage: Book Signings
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Reyna Grande Book Signing Line No. 15
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Reyna Grande signs "A Dream Called Home: A Memoir" (Atria). Stage: Book Signings
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Richard Powers Book Signing Line No. 23
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Richard Powers signs "The Overstory" (Norton). Stage: Book Signings
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Rick Atkinson Book Signing Line No. 10
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Rick Atkinson signs "The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777" (Henry Holt). Stage: Book Signings
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Ronald L. Smith Book Signing Line No. 22
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Ronald L. Smith signs "The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away" (Clarion). Stage: Book Signings
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Sharon Robinson Book Signing Line No. 14
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Sharon Robinson signs "Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963" (Scholastic). Stage: Book Signings
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Sheila Black Book Signing Line No. 11
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Sheila Black signs "The Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked: The Fiction of Disability" (Cinco Puntos). Stage: Book Signings
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Suketu Mehta Book Signing Line No. 17
Saturday
August 31, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Suketu Mehta signs "This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Stage: Book Signings
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Caoilinn Hughes Book Signing Line No. 22
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Caoilinn Hughes signs "Orchid & the Wasp" (Hogarth). Stage: Book Signings
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Evan Thomas Book Signing Line No. 18
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Evan Thomas signs "First: Sandra Day O’Connor" (Random House). Stage: Book Signings
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Joe Ide Book Signing Line No. 12
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Joe Ide signs "Wrecked: An IQ Novel" (Mulholland). Stage: Book Signings
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Laila Lalami Book Signing Line No. 20
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Laila Lalami signs "The Other Americans" (Pantheon). Stage: Book Signings
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Linda Holmes Book Signing Line No. 4
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Linda Holmes signs "Evvie Drake Starts Over" (Ballantine). Stage: Book Signings
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Lisa Margonelli Book Signing Line No. 17
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Lisa Margonelli signs "Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology" (Scientific American/Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Stage: Book Signings
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Pamela Paul and Maria Russo Book Signing Line No. 11
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Pamela Paul and Maria Russo sign "How to Raise a Reader" (Workman). Stage: Book Signings
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Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks Book Signing Line No. 5
Saturday
August 31, 2019
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT Hall C (Lower Level) Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks sign "Pumpkinheads" (First Second). Stage: Book Signings