We are so excited to be just a little more than a week away from the 2022 National Book Festival. On Saturday, Sept. 3 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., join us at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown D.C. for events featuring more than 120 authors, writers and poets, book signings and …
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today that the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction will be awarded to Jesmyn Ward. The 45-year-old Mississippian is the two-time winner of the National Book Award for the novels "Salvage the Bones" and "Sing, Unburied, Sing" among other major literary awards.
We close our series of 2021 Festival highlights with LeVar Burton, host of “Open a Book, Open the World: The Library of Congress National Book Festival." And we look forward to seeing you at the Washington Convention Center for the 2022 National Book Festival!
This week we highlight our poetry programs from the 2021 Festival, including conversations with Nikki Giovanni ("Make Me Rain"); francine j. harris ("Here Is the Sweet Hand") and Patrick Rosal ("The Last Thing"); and Claudia Rankine ("Just Us"), Phillip B. Williams ("Mutiny") and Kevin Young ("African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song").
This week we highlight just a few of our many standout fiction programs from the 2021 Festival, including conversations with Alice McDermott ("What About the Baby?") and George Saunders ("A Swim in a Pond in the Rain"), P. Djèlí Clark ("A Master of Djinn"), and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers ("The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois") and Deesha Philyaw ("The Secret Lives of Church Ladies").
This week we highlight programs from the 2021 Festival that feature cooking and community, including conversations with Rodney Scott ("Rodney Scott's World of BBQ") and Trisha Yearwood ("Trisha's Kitchen"), and Hawa Hassan ("In Bibi's Kitchen") and Marcus Samuelsson ("The Rise").
This week we highlight programs from the 2021 Festival that feature Native writers, including conversations with Kelli Jo Ford ("Crooked Hallelujah") and Toni Jensen ("Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land"), Rep. Sharice Davids ("Sharice's Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman") and Joy Harjo ("Poet Warrior").
This week we highlight just a few of our many standout nonfiction programs from this year's Festival, including Heather McGhee on "The Sum of Us," Sarah Frier ("No Filter") and Anna Wiener ("Uncanny Valley") on their new books, and Matt Parker on "Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World."