Authors!

The festival will feature lectures and signings from 300 national and local authors, including award-winning and best-selling authors representing all genres of books. Confirmed authors include:

• Jonathan Franzen, National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections
• Diana Gabaldon, New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series
• David Finkel, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the Washington Post
• Natasha Trethewey, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection Native Guard
• George Dawes Green, author of The Juror and founder of not-for-profit storytelling organization and Public Radio program The Moth
• Cassandra Clare, bestselling author of the young adult saga The Mortal Instruments
• Ridley Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of a dozen young adult novels, and more than two dozen adult crime fiction novels
• Emily Giffin, New York Times bestselling author of Love the One You're With and The Heart of the Matter
• Anna Dewdney, author of the Llama Llama children's book series
• Joyce Maynard, author of To Die For
• Lev Grossman, book critic at TIME and author of The Magicians
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning novelist and short fiction author of The Thing Around Your Neck
• Patricia Smith, four-time National Poetry Slam champion and author of the National Book Award finalist Blood Dazzler