Welcome to the Nantucket Book Festival’s answer to social distancing. We call it At Home With Authors. We are visiting, via Zoom, the writers we had planned to feature at our 9th annual festival this summer. We also will check in with many of our author alums from previous years.

We promise you engaging conversation with great stories, opportunities for escape, and perspective-changing insights on this moment in history. Please join us – from our homes, to their homes, to your homes.

Get your 2020 Festival tee-shirt!

This week only: to celebrate our 9th annual Festival, we'll send you our 2020 "At Home with Authors" tee-shirt for a donation of $99.

Just go to our support us/donate page, contribute $99 or more, and in the Comments section tell us what size(s) you would like. Make sure your mailing address is correct, or, if you're on Nantucket, we'll let you know where to pick up your tee-shirt when it arrives.

Your donation helps us continue to plan for our 10th annual Festival next June. Please donate today!

At Home With Authors™

At a time like this, we need voices like these. The Nantucket Book Foundation & Festival presents memorable conversations and time-sensitive takeaways with our 2020 authors, and a growing roster of great writers.

Channeling Frederick Douglass on July 4th

"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" is acclaimed as the greatest speech by one of the greatest orators in America's history. Listen to this 10 minute tour de force to understand why.

Tear it Down?

What's a better monument to freedom: that statue of Lincoln in Washington, DC, or the Frederick Douglass speech about Lincoln at the statue's unveiling? Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight offers us a third way in this 18 minute journey to 1876.

Hope On A Shelf

We have been asking our 2020 authors, at this moment in our history, what gives you hope? Watch until the end of this first 13-minute installment, and you'll see what we mean by hope on a shelf.

Disturber of Tradition

Barbara White's deep dive into 19th century Nantucket and Black history brings racial justice advocate Anna Gardner to life -- at just the right time.