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.

The Nantucket Book Foundation's 2021 Literary Pets Photo Contest

Congratulations to our winners, Maverick and Missy!

Thanks to your entries and votes, the NBF raised over $10,000 in much-needed funds. Our heartfelt thanks to all 32 pet owners who entered the contest, and all the people who voted for them!

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.

A Thousand Leagues of Blue

Susan Veeder got married at 17, had her first child at 18. At 32 -- in 1848 -- she did something no Nantucket woman had ever done before. Betsy Tyler has traced the thrilling and tragic story of the Veeder family -- from Nantucket to Tahiti and back.

The Vote

Elaine Weiss, author of The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight To Win The Vote, says her book "is about how change is made in a democracy....what it takes to make change, and how hard it is." One hundred years after American women won the right to vote ...

Empathy on "The Uninhabitable Earth"

“It is worse, much worse, than you think,” writes David Wallace-Wells. Still, there are reasons for hope in this conversation with the author and Nantucket's Linda Loring Nature Foundation team.