The 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, August. 24th, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
According to the organizers, entrance is free, and a selection of programs will be livestreamed online and videos of all programs will be available shortly after the Festival.
Notable authors include:
- Sandra Cisneros, Poet, short story writer, novelist and essayist whose work explores the lives of the working class
- Tamron Hall, a two-time Emmy Award-winning television host and executive producer of the syndicated talk show, “Tamron Hall,” as well as a bestselling author, a self-taught cook and a mother
- James Patterson, a bestselling author of adult and middle grade fiction, with more than 400 million copies sold worldwide and 15 books adapted for film and television
- Doris Kearns Goodwin whose work for President Johnson inspired her career as a presidential historian. Her first book was “Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream.” She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning “No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II.”
Courtesy – National Book Festival/ Library of Congress
