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#LOCBookfest22 Author Talk | ‘Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer’ with Kate Clifford Larson

PBS Books, in collaboration with Virginia Public Media, is hosting a conversation celebrating the Library of Congress National Book Festival with Leslye Penelope, author of The Monsters We Defy, and Lucinda Roy, author of Flying the Coop, to discuss their work, their dedication to creating strong empowered female heroines, and their involvement in the festival. The authors will be interviewed by VPM’s Samantha Willis and Angie Miles. About Kate Clifford Larson  Kate Clifford Larson is a bestselling author of acclaimed biographies, including "Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero," "Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter" and "The [...]

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#LOCBookfest22 Author Talk | ‘Horse: A Novel’ with Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks will discuss "Horse: A Novel" at the 2022 National Book Festival. About Geraldine Brooks  Australian-born Geraldine Brooks grew up in Sydney. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her second novel, “March.” Her novels “Caleb’s Crossing” and “People of the Book” were New York Times bestsellers. Brooks worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Her first novel, “Year of Wonders,” is an international bestseller, translated into more than 25 languages and currently under option to the [...]

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#LOCBookfest22 Author Talk | ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ 25th Anniversary with Mitch Albon

Mitch Albom will discuss "Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 25th Anniversary Edition" at the 2022 National Book Festival. About Mitch Albom  Mitch Albom is the author of numerous fiction and nonfiction books, which have collectively sold more than 40 million copies in 47 languages worldwide. He has written award-winning TV films, stage plays, screenplays, a newspaper column, a musical and eight No. 1 New York Times bestsellers. Through his work at the Detroit Free Press, he was inducted into both the National Sports Media Association and Michigan Sports halls of fame. Albom also [...]

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#LOCBookfest22 Author Talk | ‘How The Word Is Passed’ with Clint Smith

PBS Books, in collaboration with Maryland Public Television, is hosting a conversation celebrating the Library of Congress National Book Festival with Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, to discuss his work and involvement in the festival. The author will be interviewed American Black Journal’s Stephen Henderson. About Clint Smith  Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the bestselling narrative nonfiction book, “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America.” He is also the author of the [...]

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#LOCBookfest22 Author Talk | ‘Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands’ with Kelly Lytle Hernández

About Kelly Lytle Hernández  Kelly Lytle Hernández is a professor of history, African American studies and urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she holds the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and directs the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. A 2019 MacArthur fellowship recipient, she is the author of the award-winning books “Migra!” and “City of Inmates.” Hernández lives in Los Angeles. Featured at the 2022 National Book Festival is her latest work, “Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands.” It is about the migrant rebels, the magonistas, that started [...]

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#LOCBookfest22 Author Talk | ‘Blackout: A Novel’ with Dhonielle Clayton

About Dhonielle Clayton  Dhonielle Clayton is the New York Times bestselling author of The Belles series and the co-author of the Tiny Pretty Things duology, which was made into a Netflix original series. She is chief operating officer of the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books and owner of CAKE Literary. Clayton is one of the authors of “Blackout: A Novel,” which is featured at the 2022 National Book Festival and follows six Black teenagers during a blackout in New York City.  About the Library of Congress National Book Festival The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, offering access to [...]

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#LOCBookfest22 Author Talk: ‘Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us’ with Rachel Aviv

About Rachel Aviv  Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about medicine, education, criminal justice and other subjects. In 2022, she won a National Magazine Award for Profile Writing. A 2019 national fellow at New America, she lives in Brooklyn, New York. Aviv received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to support her work on her book “Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us," which is featured at the 2022 National Book Festival.  About The Library of Congress National Book Festival:  The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, offering access [...]

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Panel Discussion | “The US and the Holocaust: A Michigan Perspective” with Historians and Community Builders

In coordination with the premiere of the new documentary film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein "The U.S. and the Holocaust," Detroit Public TV (DPTV) hosts live panel discussion in partnership with The Zekelman Holocaust Center, the Interfaith Leadership Council of Metropolitan Detroit and ADL Michigan.  The event "The U.S. and the Holocaust: A Michigan Perspective" includes video segments from the documentary, a message from filmmaker Ken Burns and a panel discussion with prominent leaders and historians addressing a range of topics raised by the documentary. The panel features: Catherine Cangany, director of the Jewish Historical Society, an [...]

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David Bornstein | Solutions Journalism Collaborative Summit Keynote Speaker

David Bornstein, co-founder and CEO of the Solutions Journalism Network, will kick off the Solutions Journalism Collaborative Summit by discussing the role Solutions Journalism can play in helping news organizations confront evolving challenges in the news around trust, audience engagement, equity and sustainability.

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