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Posted by: Anne Holmes
Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with biographer Edmund Morris discussing “Colonel Roosevelt,” the final volume in his trilogy on Theodore Roosevelt, on the History & Biography stage at the 2011 Festival.
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with novelist Don DeLillo discussing "The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories" and accepting the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction on the Fiction stage at the 2013 Festival.
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with physician, researcher and science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee discussing “The Emperor of All Maladies” on the Contemporary Life stage at the 2011 Festival.
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Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with children's author Linda Sue Park discussing her picture book "Nya's Long Walk: A Step at a Time" on the Children's Green Stage at the 2019 Festival. This post includes prompts for writing and thinking that young readers, families and teachers can use to explore the author and the author’s work—recommended for ages 9+.
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Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with science fiction writer John Scalzi discussing “The Consuming Fire,” book 2 of the Interdependency series, on the Genre Fiction stage at the 2019 Festival.
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Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with editor and biographer David Remnick discussing “The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama” on the History & Biography stage at the 2010 Festival.
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Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with author Amy Tan discussing "Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir" on the Main Stage at the 2018 Festival.
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Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with Henry Louis Gates Jr., Judge Richard Gergel and Steve Luxenberg discussing their newest books on the subject of race in America on the Understanding Our World stage at the 2019 Festival.
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Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with actor and author Neil Patrick Harris discussing "The Magic Misfits: The Minor Third." The event, part of the new year-long National Book Festival Presents series, took place in the Library’s Coolidge Auditorium. This post includes prompts for writing and thinking that young readers, families and teachers can use to explore the author and the author’s work—recommended for ages 8+.
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