Key	Imgs	Short Description
2015_DC_NBF_Gordon_Reed_150905	7	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Annette Gordon-Reed Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor of law and history at Harvard University, is one of the country's most distinguished presidential scholars. She received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in history for her book "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family" (Norton). Her first book was the acclaimed "Thomas...
2015_DC_NBF_Nafisi_150905	4	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Azar Nafisi Azar Nafisi is best known as the author of the national best-seller "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books," a vivid portrait of the Islamic revolution in Iran and how it affected one university professor and her students. She is the executive director of Cultural Conversations at the Foreign...
2015_DC_NBF_CSpan_150905	9	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Book TV on C-Span2 Folks here include Ray Suarez and Evan Osnos Ray Suarez is a broadcast journalist and currently the host of the daily program “Inside Story” on Al Jazeera America. He has been a senior correspondent for PBS “NewsHour,” host of the international news program “America Abroad,” host of the NPR program...
2015_DC_NBF_Aldrin_150905	33	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Buzz Aldrin Buzz Aldrin, selected by NASA as one of the early astronauts, made the historic Apollo XI moon walk with Neil Armstrong in 1969. Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he lectures and travels throughout the world to pursue and discuss the latest concepts and ideas for exploring the universe....
2015_DC_NBF_Bell_150905	2	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Cece Bell A Virginia-born author and illustrator, Cece Bell enjoys limeade and lives in an old church. She majored in art at the College of William and Mary, where she met her author-illustrator husband, Tom Angleberger. Her works include “Bee-wigged,” “Itty Bitty,” “Food Friends,” “Busy Buddies” and the Sock...
2015_DC_NBF_Appy_150905	6	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Christian G. Appy Christian G. Appy is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of three books on the Vietnam War, including “Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam” and “Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides,” which won the Massachusetts Book...
2015_DC_NBF_Leo_Ghost_150905	7	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Christian Robinson and Mac Barnett ("Leo: A Ghost Story") Christian Robinson is an illustrator and animator. He has worked with Pixar Animation Studios and The Sesame Street Workshop. Robinson is the illustrator of several best-selling and acclaimed picture books, including “Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker,” “Gaston,” “Last Stop on Market...
2015_DC_NBF_Baldacci_150905	13	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- David Baldacci David Baldacci is the best-selling author of more than 25 novels, of which several have been adapted for film and television. His books have been published and sold in over 45 languages and 80 countries, and have more than 110 million copies in print worldwide. A tireless advocate for literacy and the...
2015_DC_NBF_Maraniss_150905	21	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- David Maraniss David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post who has recently published “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story” (Simon & Schuster). Maraniss is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the Pulitzer for national reporting in 1993 for his newspaper coverage of then presidential...
2015_DC_NBF_McCullough_150905	36	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- David McCullough Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has called David McCullough the "citizen chronicler" for his meticulously researched and beautifully written historical books, such as the Pulitzer Prize winners "Truman" and "John Adams," the latter of which became an Emmy Award-winning miniseries on HBO. He is...
2015_DC_NBF_Larson_150905	4	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Edward J. Larson Historian and author Edward J. Larson is a professor of history and holds the Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University. He received the Pulitzer Prize in History for his book “Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion.” His other...
2015_DC_NBF_Fenn_150905	7	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Elizabeth A. Fenn Pulitzer Prize-winning Elizabeth A. Fenn is an associate professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is a distinguished scholar whose studies focus on the early American west, epidemic disease, Native American history and environmental history. Her dissertation was published in...
2015_DC_NBF_Thomas_150905	20	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Evan Thomas w/David Rubenstein Noted journalist and best-selling author Evan Thomas is well-known to viewers of the Washington public affairs show “Inside Washington,” which ceased production in 2013. He has worked for Time magazine, and has been editor-at-large at Newsweek since 2006. His book “The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge,...
2015_DC_NBF_Anderson_150905	3	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Gerald Anderson and Susan Orlins Still Standing: How an ex-con found salvation in the floodwaters of Katrina
2015_DC_NBF_Graphic1_150905	184	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Graphic Novels Part 1: Knight, Alcaraz, Stantis w/Michael Cavna Keith Knight is a musician and cartoonist. His works include The K Chronicles, (Th)ink and The Knight Life series. He has received the Comic-Con Inkpot Award for career achievement, multiple Glyph Awards for best comic strip and the Harvey Kurtzman Award for best syndicated comic strip. His art has...
2015_DC_NBF_Graphic2_150905	76	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Graphic Novels Part 2: Noomin, Lasko-Gorss, Robbins Diane Noomin is a comics artist best known as the creator of Didi Glitz. She is one of the original contributors to Wimmen's Comix and is the editor of the anthology series Twisted Sisters. Her work has appeared in many books, magazines and underground comic publications, including Weirdo, Young Lust,...
2015_DC_NBF_Geronimo_150905	10	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Harlyn Geronimo Harlyn Geronimo is a Mescalero and Chiricahua Apache medicine man and the great-grandson of legendary Chiricahua Apache Chief Geronimo. He belongs to the Eastern Chiricahua Apaches known as Shá'i'ánde whose homelands are the Gila wilderness. The book “In Geronimo’s Footsteps: A Journey Beyond Legend”...
2015_DC_NBF_Wiencek_150905	2	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Henry Wiencek Henry Wiencek is a journalist, historian, editor and author of “Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). His other books include “The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White,” which won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in biography, and “An...
2015_DC_NBF_Reed_150905	4	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Ishmael Reed Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a finalist for two National Book Awards, Ishmael Reed is a novelist, poet, playwright, editor, lyricist and essayist with more than 25 published books. His works include “Yellow Black Radio Broke-Down,” “The Last Days of Louisiana Red,” “Mixing It Up: Taking on the...
2015_DC_NBF_Winik_150905	5	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Jay Winik Best-selling author Jay Winik is a senior scholar of history and public policy at the University of Maryland who is best known for his book “April 1864: The Month That Saved America.” He is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and his work is often published in The New York Times and The...
2015_DC_NBF_Theoharis_150905	2	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Jeanne Theoharis A professor of political science at the City University of New York’s Brooklyn College, Jeanne Theoharis is also an author of literature on civil rights struggles and political issues surrounding race in the U.S. Her latest work, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” (Beacon Press), is a 2014 NAACP...
2015_DC_NBF_Holm_150905	8	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Jennifer L. Holm Jennifer L. Holm is a New York Times best-selling children’s author inspired by her own childhood. She has written the Newbery Honor-receiving novels “Turtle in Paradise,” “Penny from Heaven” and “Our Only May Amelia,” as well as the “Boston Jane” series. Instead of fighting with him for the comics...
2015_DC_NBF_Scieszka_150905	2	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Jon Scieszka Jon Scieszka was the first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, a program sponsored by the Library of Congress Center for the Book and the Children’s Book Council. His zany, somewhat subversive sense of humor is evident in such best-sellers as “The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid...
2015_DC_NBF_Ellis_150905	36	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Joseph Ellis w/David Rubenstein Joseph Ellis, a professor teaching in the Leadership Studies program at Williams College, is a nationally recognized historian whose work focuses on the founders of the United States. The author of nine books, he has received the National Book Award in Nonfiction for "American Sphinx: The Character of...
2015_DC_NBF_Herrera_150905	10	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Juan Felipe Herrera Juan Felipe Herrera is the 2015-2016 Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. In 2012, he was named poet laureate of California. Herrera is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for “Half the World in Light” and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for...
2015_DC_NBF_Bray_150905	2	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Libba Bray Libba Bray is the author of the Gemma Doyle trilogy, “Beauty Queens,” and the young adult novel “Going Bovine,” a winner of the Michael L. Printz Award. She has also written the Diviners series, whose latest addition is “Lair of Dreams: A Diviners Novel” (Hachette). In her spare time she sings and plays...
2015_DC_NBF_James_150905	1	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Marlon James Teacher and author Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. He has written the novels “The Book of Night Women” and “John Crow’s Devil.” His most recent work is “A Brief History of Seven Killings” (Riverhead), which explores the political turmoil of late 1900s Jamaica through multiple perspectives....
2015_DC_NBF_Hope_150905	7	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan ("Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland") Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mary Jordan is an author and a national correspondent at The Washington Post, where she has covered a wide range of subjects including style, education and politics. For several years Jordan was the founding editor and moderator for Washington Post Live. She has hosted...
2015_DC_NBF_Misc_150905	53	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Miscellaneous
2015_DC_NBF_Sis_150905	4	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Peter Sis Peter Sis is a critically acclaimed children’s author, illustrator and filmmaker. He is a MacArthur Fellow and has received three Caldecott Honors, a Robert Silbert Medal, four Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration. His books include “The Wall: Growing up...
2015_DC_NBF_PP_150905	9	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Politics and Prose Area
2015_DC_NBF_Atkinson_150905	12	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Rick Atkinson A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Rick Atkinson has received acclaim for both his contemporary journalism as well as his historical writing. Atkinson has been a reporter for The Kansas City Times and The Washington Post. His first book was “The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s...
2015_DC_NBF_Tahir_150905	3	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Sabaa Tahir Best-selling author Sabaa Tahir spent her childhood reading and listening to the radio in the Mojave Desert and dreaming of growing up as a pirate or bear. After graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles, she became an editor for the Washington Post. Her wildly popular debut novel, “An...
2015_DC_NBF_Moses_150905	6	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Shelia P. Moses Poet, author, playwright and producer Shelia P. Moses was raised the ninth of 10 children. She is the co-author of Dick Gregory's memoir, "Callus on My Soul," as well as the award-winning author of several books for young readers: "The Legend of Buddy Bush," "The Return of Buddy Bush," "Joseph's Grace,"...
2015_DC_NBF_Manzano_150905	7	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Sonia Manzano Sonia Manzano has touched the lives of millions since the early 1970s as the actress who defined the role of Maria on the acclaimed television series “Sesame Street.” She has won 15 Emmy Awards for her television writing and is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Arts and...
2015_DC_NBF_Pastis_150905	97	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Stephan Pastis w/Michael Cavna Stephan Pastis used to be a lawyer. Now, he is the award-winning cartoonist who creates “Pearls Before Swine,” a syndicated daily comic strip that runs in 750 newspapers around the world. The humorous comic strip’s host of friends—Rat, Pig, Goat and Zebra—deliver a smart, witty and painfully honest...
2015_DC_NBF_Isaacson_150905	2	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Walter Isaacson Walter Isaacson is the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization based in the District of Columbia. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and editor of Time magazine. His biography of the visionary former head of Apple Inc., “Steve Jobs,” is a...
2015_DC_NBF_Mosley_150905	4	Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Walter Mosley Walter Mosley is the author of more than 40 books, including the critically acclaimed Easy Rawlins mystery series. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and spans genres including literary fiction, science fiction, mystery and young adult novels. His first Easy Rawlins novel, “Devil...

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