Schedule of events:
SATURDAY, SEPT. 22
National Book Festival
The annual event takes place from Sept. 22-23 on the National Mall. Read more
Schedule of events:
SATURDAY, SEPT. 22
(Linda Fittante) - Author Steve Inskeep
10:00-10:45 Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman and Johns Hopkins University professor Michael Mandelbaum are the co-authors of “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back.” Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, is also the author of “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century” and “Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America.” Mandelbaum, director of the American Foreign Policy program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, has written 10 books on U.S. foreign policy. Signing at 11.
10:55-11:40 Joy Harjo The poetry of Native American writer Joy Harjo has been influenced by her Muscogee Creek heritage as well as her feminist and social interests. Her most recent book is “Crazy Brave: A Memoir.” Signing at noon.
11:50 -12:35 Linda Greenhouse Pulitzer Prize-winner Linda Greenhouse, author of “The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction,” covered the court for nearly 30 years for the New York Times. In 2005 she published “Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey.” Signing at 10:30.
12:45-1:30 Marilynne Robinson won the PEN/Hemingway award for best first novel for “Housekeeping”; 24 years later she released her second novel, “Gilead,” which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Robinson teaches at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Her new essay collection is “When I Was a Child I Read Books.” Signing at 2.
1:40-2:25 Lisa Scottoline , best known as the author of legal suspense novels, wrote her latest book, “Best Friends, Occasional Enemies: The Lighter Side of Life as a Mother and Daughter,” with her daughter, Francesca Serritella. The two write a humor column called “Chick Wit” in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Scottoline, a former litigator who is also a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, published a new mystery, “Come Home,” earlier this year. Signing at 3.
2:35-3:20 Jeffrey Toobin, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, is the author of several books on legal affairs, including “The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.” He is a staff writer for the New Yorker and a senior analyst for CNN. His new book is “The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court.” Signing at 4.
3:30-4:15 Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine. His books include “The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast” and, most recently, “Cronkite,” a biography of the legendary newsman. Signing at 2.
4:25-5:10 Donna Britt , a former reporter and columnist for The Washington Post, is the author of “Brothers (& Me): A Memoir of Loving and Giving,” an exploration of issues surrounding gender and race. Signing at 2:30.
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