Discover New Authors & Beloved Favorites

Check out more than 100 of the nation's best authors, poets and illustrators, who will discuss their work and answer your questions at your National Book Festival.

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    Kate DiCamillo Kate DiCamillo, 2014-2015 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, was the fourth writer to hold this position. During her two-year term, DiCamillo traveled across America to promote her platform, “Stories Connect Us.”

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    Claudia Rankine Claudia Rankine was born in Jamaica in 1963. She is the author of multiple poetry and nonfiction collections, including Just Us: An American Conversation (2020) and Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), winner of the Library of Congress Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress.
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    Jason Reynolds Jason Reynolds, 2020-2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, is the seventh writer to hold this position. During his term, Reynolds visited small towns across America to have meaningful discussions with young people.
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