Fall for the Book’s 19th annual festival will run from
October 11-14 at George Mason University and locations around Northern
Virginia. National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson
Whitehead, author of The Underground
Railroad, will kick off the festival on October 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Harris
Theater on Mason’s Fairfax campus. Also reading in Harris Theater will be
Mohsin Hamid, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist on Friday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m.,
and Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians
trilogy—now a hit show on the Syfy channel—on Saturday, October 14 at 5 p.m. to
close out the festival.
Other major writers will include poet Ellen Bryant Voigt,
author of Headwaters, nonfiction
writer David Shields, author of Other
People, novelist Karan Mahajan, author of The Association of Small Bombs, and poet Tarfia Faizullah, author
of Seam.
The festival will also welcome a robust list of poets,
historians, novelists, memoirists, children’s authors, YA writers, cookbook
authors and more. For the first time, Fall for the Book is partnering with the
City of Fairfax’s Fall Festival on Saturday, October 14, to bring a day of
literary and artistic events to audiences from throughout the region. For a
full list of authors, visit www.fallforthebook.org
or download our free app from your app store.
This is Fall for the Book's nineteenth year, and events are
free and open to the public. Last year's festival attracted over 22,000
attendees to our readings, panels, workshops and exhibits. More information
about Fall for the Book can be found at our website: www.fallforthebook.org
Here's the complete schedule:
And here are a few friends/friends of friends/Facebook
friends/writers I ESPECIALLY recommend checking out:
Fiction
Tara Campbell
Mollie Cox Bryan
Marita Golden
Elizabeth Hand
Dave Housley
Matthew Klam
Elise Levine
Margot Livesey
Virginia Pye
Melissa Scholes Young
Amber Sparks
Poetry
Kim Roberts
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Publishing
Joanne Lozar Glenn
Anna March
History &
Biography
Andrea Pitzer
Michael Sims
Memoir & Creative
Nonfiction
Douglas R. Dechow
Timothy Denevi
Anna Leahy