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Schedule of events:
SATURDAY, SEPT. 22
Special Report
National Book Festival
The annual event takes place from Sept. 22-23 on the National Mall. Read more
2012 National Book Festival: History and Biography
(Joyce Ravid) - Author Robert Caro
10:00-10:45 Walter Isaacson is the author of “Steve Jobs,” a biography of the visionary head of Apple Inc. His previous books include “Einstein: His Life and Universe,” “Benjamin Franklin: An American Life” and “Kissinger: A Biography.” A former chairman and chief executive of CNN and editor of Time magazine, he is the president and chief executive of the Washington-based Aspen Institute and chairman of the board of Teach for America.Signing at 11.
10:55-11:40 Robert A. Caro is the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Critics Circle awards and the National Book Award. He is the author of “The Years of Lyndon Johnson,” a multi-volume biography of the 36th president of the United States. Its fourth and most recent volume, “The Passage of Power,” covers Johnson’s vice presidential years and the first weeks of his presidency. Caro’s first book, “The Power Broker,” a biography of New York City’s “master builder” Robert Moses, was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest nonfiction books of the 20th century. Signing at 12:30.
11:50-12:35 Tony Horwitz After a decade as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Tony Horwitz returned to the United States and won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He also worked as a staff writer for the New Yorker before becoming a full-time author. His latest book is “Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War.” Signing at 1.
12:45-1:30 Elizabeth Dowling Taylor During a 22-year career in museum education and historical research, Elizabeth Dowling Taylor was director of interpretation at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and director of education at James Madison’s Montpelier. Now a fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Taylor has written “A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons,” a biography of a slave who served the fourth president as valet and head servant. Signing at 2.
1:40-2:25 John Lewis Gaddis won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for “George F. Kennan: An American Life,” a biography of the Cold War diplomat who originated the policy of containing communism. Gaddis’s other books include “The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947” and “We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History.” Signing at 3.
2:35-3:20 Susan Tejada is the author of “In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times, and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World.” A former writer and editor for the National Geographic Society, she has also worked as a photojournalist and taught nonfiction writing for young readers. Signing at 4.
3:30-4:15 Fergus M. Bordewich In “America’s Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union,”Fergus M. Bordewich tells the story of the nation’s westward expansion, slavery and the congressional debate preceding the Compromise of 1850. His previous books include “Washington: The Making of the American Capital” and “Killing the White Man’s Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century.” Signing at 4:30.
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Khaled Hosseini’s exquisite ‘And the Mountains Echoed’
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‘Minotaur,’ by Benjamin Tammuz
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Book review: ‘Cheat the Clock’
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Washington Post Bestsellers May 19
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Book review: Eleanor Morse’s ‘White Dog Fell from the Sky’
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Timothy Egan wins the Chautauqua Prize for "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher"
Egan's biography of American West photographer Edward Curtis garners $7,500 and a week at the summer program in New York State.
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Book review: ‘Flora’ by Gail Godwin
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