Methodist Church / Breeze Bar at The Nantucket Hotel / White Heron Theater
10:00 am Dawn Tripp with Sara DiVello
Jackie
11:00 am Meenakshi Ahamed with Michael Schulder
Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America
12:00 pm Kim Coleman Foote with Kaley Kokomoor
Coleman Hill
1:00 pm Betsy Lerner
Shred Sisters
2:00 pm Victor Luckerson with Shantaw Bloise-Murphy
Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
3:00 pm Jenny Johnson & Billy Costa
A Taste of Boston
4:00 pm Ann Leary with Lisa Genova
I've Tried Being Nice
5:00 pm Nantucket Young Playwrights
White Heron Theater
8:00 pm Authors in Bars
Breeze Bar, The Nantucket Hotel
Methodist Church / Unitarian Universalist Church / Brant Point Grill
9:00 am Geraldine Brooks with William Cohan
Memorial Days
10:00 am Imani Perry with Mary Haft
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
11:00 am Wally Lamb with Tim Ehrenberg
The River is Waiting
12:00 pm Charmaine Wilkerson with Mary Haft
Good Dirt
1:00 pm Alice Hoffman with Sara DiVello
When We Flew Away
2:00 pm Adam Ross with Elin Hilderbrand
Playworld
3:00 pm Patti Callahan Henry with Heather Reisman
The Story She Left Behind
4:00 pm Suzy Welch with Linda Henry
Becoming You: The Proven Method for Crafting Your Authentic Life and Career
6:30 pm Reading Widely: Becoming More
Patrick Radden Keefe, Loretta J. Ross, Bob Woodward, Lisa Genova
7:30 pm Nantucket Book Festival Author Dinner
Presented by the White Elephant
Methodist Church / Dreamland
9:00 am Bob Woodward with Linda Henry
War
10:00 am Local Authors
Atheneum Great Hall - Local authors discussing and selling books
10:00 am Jason Reynolds with Mary Haft
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now
11:00 am Carl Hiaasen with Elin Hilderbrand & Tim Ehrenberg
Fever Beach
12:00 pm Lisa Genova with Sara DiVello
More or Less Maddy
1:00 pm Molly Jong-Fast with Kate Brosnan
How to Lose Your Mother
2:00 pm Jennifer Finney Boylan
Cleavage
3:00 pm Ocean Vuong with Tim Ehrenberg
The Emperor of Gladness
4:00 pm Loretta Ross with Michael Schulder
Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel
7:30 pm Saturday Celebration!
Young Writer Award Presentation, Tharon Dunn Scholarship Award and Conversation Between Carl Hiaasen and Jason Reynolds
Dreamland Main Theater / Cisco Brewers
10:00 am Patrick Radden Keefe
Rogues
11:00 am Chris Sheppard with Rob Cocuzzo
The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball
12:00pm Jonathan Waterman with Patti Callihan Henry
Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder amid the Arctic Climate Crisis
1:00pm Wright Thompson with Luke Russert
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
3:00 pm Cisco Send-off Celebration
Cisco Brewers
The Nantucket Hotel
Join Elin Hilderbrand at the Nantucket Hotel & Resort as we bring one of Elin's most popular novels, The Blue Bistro to life to benefit the Nantucket Book Foundation. This is our fifth summer fundraiser, and all proceeds go toward the annual Nantucket Book Festival and our year-round work with island schools and readers of all ages. Click through to the event page to purchase tickets.
