Annapolis Book Festival

Description

The Annapolis Book Festival brings together nationally renowned authors and thousands of book fans for author talks, panel discussions, book signings, and other activities. Interactive, multi-generational and free of charge, the Festival has something for book lovers of all ages. Combining entertainment, children’s activities, ComicKey! (a family-friendly comic con) and food trucks with compelling author panels, the Festival attracts more than 3,000 attendees each year.

2024 - 21st Annual Annapolis Book Festival

Speakers

• National Book Award winner and best-selling author Alice McDermott
• Peabody and Emmy Award winner and former NPR host Michele Norris
• Acclaimed presidential historian and best-selling author Douglas Brinkley  
• NBC News Capitol correspondent and author Ali Vitali
• Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery
• Best-selling thriller writer Liv Constantine
• Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James Risen
• Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton
• Best-selling author, editor and journalist Evan Thomas
• Award-winning author and director of the Department of Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University Jonathan M. Metzl
• Director of MFA Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts and memoirist Deborah Jackson Taffa
• Best-selling author and CNN Supreme Court analyst Stephen Vladeck
• Constitutional lawyer and president of the Brennan Center for Justice Michael Waldman
• Former White House executive chef Charlie S. Redden
• Acclaimed sportswriter and best-selling author John Eisenberg

Presenting Authors

• Raymond Arsenault - John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community
• E. A. Aymar - When She Left
• Schuyler Bailar - He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
• Douglas Brinkley - Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening
• Jack Campbell - Rendezvous with Corsair: A Lost Fleet Collection
• Liv Constantine - The Senator's Wife
• Jane Delury - Hedge
• Stephanie Dray - Becoming Madam Secretary
• Steve  Drummond - The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two
• John Eisenberg - Rocket Men: The Black Quarterbacks Who Revolutionized Pro Football
• Peter J. Emanuel Jr. - Course Change: The Whaleship Stonington in the Mexican-American War
• Natalie Franke - Gutsy: Learning to Live with Bold, Brave, and Boundless Courage 
• John W. Frece - Self-Destruction: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of U.S. Senator Daniel B. Brewster
• Tracy C. Gold - Call Your Mother
• Terah Shelton Harris - One Summer in Savannah
• Mary Haverstick - A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination
• Mark Hendricks - The Central Appalachians: Mountains of the Chesapeake 
• Antonia Hylton - Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
• Meghan Riordan Jarvis - End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir
• Victoria Kelly - Homefront: Stories (Battle Born)
• Claudia Kousoulas - Private Gardens of the Potomac & Chesapeake: Washington, DC, Maryland, Northern Virginia
• Meg Eden Kuyatt - Good Different
• Leah Lax - Not From Here: The Song of America
• Johannes Lichtman - Calling Ukraine: A Novel
• Wesley Lowery - American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
• Alice McDermott - Absolution
• Bethany McLean - The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind
• Doug Melville - Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals
• Jonathan M. Metzl - What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
• Stewart Moss - Arrivals and Departures 
• Liza Mundy - The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
• Kate Myers - Excavations
• Amanda Newell - Postmortem Say
• Michele Norris - Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity
• Alex Prud'homme - Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
• Charlie S. Redden - Necessary Goodness: Delicious Cuisine for Gathering and Entertaining
• James Risen - The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy 
• Thomas Risen - The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
• Jonathan Roth - Rover and Speck: Splash Down!
• Pamela Ryckman - Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science
• Jennifer A Sutherland - Bullet Points: A Lyric
• Deborah Jackson Taffa - Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
• Evan Thomas - Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
• Ali Vitali - Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House...Yet
• Stephen Vladick - The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
• Michael Waldman - The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
• Heather Webb - Queens of London 
• Alden Wicker - To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
• Timothy Young - Mac and the Millstone of Time

Who

All Ages

Cost

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