10-11: David McCullough , a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, is one of the world’s most celebrated historians. He won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies “Truman” and “John Adams,” and he received National Book Awards for “The Path Between the Seas” and “Mornings on Horseback.” His newest book is “The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For.” He will be in conversation with National Book Festival co-chairman David M. Rubenstein. Signing 11:30-12:30
11:25-12:25: The eight novels in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series have sold more than 28 million copies. Her new book, “Seven Stones to Stand or Fall,” contains seven Outlander novellas, two of them not previously published. The third season of the Starz TV series based on her Outlander novels will begin in September. Signing 1-2
12:50-1:50 Yale Law School graduate and ex-Marine J.D. Vance traced the decline of America’s white working class in “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.” He writes sympathetically about poverty in places where he grew up — Middletown, Ohio, and Jackson, Ky. — while raising stark questions about personal responsibility. He will be in conversation with National Book Festival co-chairman David M. Rubenstein. Signing 2:30-3:30
2:15-3:15: Thomas L. Friedman has won three Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting on terrorism and the Middle East. His newest book, intended to serve as “a field guide to the 21st century,” is “Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations.” Signing 3:30-4:30
3:40-4:40: From “Liar’s Poker” to “The Big Short” to “Flash Boys,” Michael Lewis has illuminated the workings of Wall Street. In his new book, “The Undoing Project ,” Lewis spotlights two psychologists who worked on behavioral economics. He will be in conversation with Joel Achenbach, a health, science and environment reporter at The Washington Post. Signing 5-6
5:05-6:05 Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state under President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2009, is now a professor of business and political science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is the author of “Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family” and “No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington.” Her most recent book is “Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom.” She will be in conversation with National Book Festival co-chairman David M. Rubenstein. Signing 3:30-4:30
6:30-7:30: In addition to his most recent thriller, “The Fix,” David Baldacci is the author of “Absolute Power,” “The Target,” “Zero Day” and 30 other books for adults. He has also published several young adult novels, notably “The Width of the World,” the latest in the Vega Jane series. In 2008, Baldacci’s Wish You Well Foundation joined forces with Feeding America to establish Feeding Body & Mind, a program that distributes books through food banks. Signing 4:30-5:30