18th Annapolis Book Festival
Beloved best-selling children’s author Kate DiCamillo; Emmy Award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson; Pen/Faulkner Award-winning novelist Ann Patchett; writer and activist Wes Moore; best-selling mystery writer Charles Finch; advocate and recipient of the Helen Keller Achievement Award Haben Girma; award-winning investigative journalist Ben Westhoff; best-selling memoirist, speaker and media producerAustin Channing Brown; chair of Color of Change Heather McGhee; best-selling author,journalist and historian Garrett M. Graff; award-winning short story writer Sergio Troncoso;satirist and Thurber Prize finalist Annabelle Gurwitch; senior fellow at the Council of ForeignRelations Gayle Tzemach Lemmon; and historical fiction writer and novelist Erika Robuck are among the many distinguished speakers scheduled to join the virtual Annapolis Book Festival on Saturday, April 24 and Sunday, April 25.
Now in its eighteenth year, the Annapolis Book Festival is an interactive, multi-generational event that has something for book lovers of all ages. Evolving into a two-day virtual Festival in2021, this free community event attracts nationally and internationally renowned authors who discuss their books and the craft of writing. This year, the Festival will partner with AnneArundel County Public Libraries to provide these virtual programs for children: SchoolReadiness Skills, Tree Songs Puppet Show, and a Take and Make Activity. Combining entertainment with compelling author panels and educational opportunities, the Festival appeals to a wide audience and has historically attracted more than 3,000 attendees annually in addition to coverage on C-SPAN BookTV.
The virtual Annapolis Book Festival will be held on Saturday, April 24 and Sunday, April 25,2021, from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Designed to promote and celebrate reading among all agesand interests, the event is free and open to all.
2021Annapolis Book Festival Authors
We are pleased to announce the following authors are presenting at the 2021 Festival:
Sharyl Attkisson - Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism
Sophie Blackall -If You Come to Earth
Austin Channing Brown - I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Oliver Bullough - Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Run the World
Tom Burgis - Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
Israel Centeno - Writing with an Accent
Sarah Chayes - On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake
Kate DiCamillo - Stella Endicott and the Anything-is-Possible Poem (illustrated by Chris Van Dusen)
April Falcon Doss - Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care
Jessie Dunleavy - Cover My Dreams in Ink: A Son's Unbearable Solitude, A Mother's Unending Quest
Charles Finch -An Extravagant Death: A Charles Lenox Mystery
David Gendell - Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse: A Chesapeake Bay Icon
Haben Girma - Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
Garrett M. Graff - The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Annabelle Gurwitch -You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility
Sara Harberson - Soundbite: The Admissions Secret that Gets You into College and Beyond
Luke Harding - Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia's Remaking of the West
Mary Dell Harrington & Lisa Heffernan - Grown & Flown: How to Support Your Teen, Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults
Harold Holzer - The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle Between the White House and the Media
Deborah Hopkinson - We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance
Martha S. Jones - Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon -The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
Heather McGhee - The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Bill McKibben - Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Wes Moore -Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City (co-author Erica L. Green)
Kate Murphy - You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
Ahmed Naji - And Tigers to My Room
Ann Pachett (author) & Robin Preiss Glasser (illustrator)- Escape Goat
Tia Powell - Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End
Erika Robuck - The Invisible Woman
Rudy Ruiz - The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez: A Novel
Ire’ne lara silva - Cuicacalli/House of Song
Sue Stuart-Smith - The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
Karin Tanabe - A Hundred Suns: A Novel
Sergio Troncoso - A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son
Ben Westhoff - Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
Kelly Yang - Parachutes
Connect with the Annapolis Book Festival:
On our website at www.keyschool.org/annapolisbookfestival
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