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2021 Summer Season

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Raising Writers

Battle of the Books • PoetryWorkshops • Front Street Writers • Scholarship Winners • Writing Workshops • Teaching Jobs

Look Who’s Been Here

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Imbolo Mbue
Battle of the Books 2021
Diane Rehm
Martha Teichner
Alan Lightman
Dwight Garner
Albert Woodfox
Larissa Fasthorse
Alice Hoffman
Christopher Haugh & Jordan Blashek
Kate Walbert
Yaa Gyasi
Ruth Ware
Chasten Buttigieg
Molly Wizenberg
Karen Dionne
Brad Thor
Miles Harvey
David Blight
William Kent Krueger
Scott Turow
Bob Giles
Elaine Weiss
Terry McMillan
Steve Luxenberg
Peter Heller
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Mitch Albom
Nelson and Alex DeMille
Susan Orlean
Randall Sullivan
Aarti Shahani
David Maraniss
Karl Marlantes
2019 Summer Book Club Party
Doug Brinkley
Bryan Gruley and Steve Hamilton
Daniel H. Pink
Marie Benedict
Meet Elizabeth Berg, Lynne Olson and Elizabeth Letts!
Lisa Scottoline
Battle of the Books Championship with Newbery Award-Winning Author Grace Lin!
Keith Gave
Tommy Tomlinson
Jen Sincero
Amy Goldstein
Alice Walker
Tayari Jones
Richard Clarke
Joe Hill
John U Bacon
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
Beth Macy
Annie Spence
12 Strong Special Advanced Screening with Doug Stanton
Battle of the Books 2018 – Peter Brown
Adriana Trigiani
Richard Russo
David Grann
Samantha Irby
Eileen McNamara
Drew Philp
Anna Quindlen
Peter Heller
Nikki Giovanni
John Donvan and Caren Zucker
Beth Macy
Battle of the Books and Gordon Korman
Greg Iles
Eric Fair
Elizabeth Strout
Andrea Petersen
Mary Roach
Julia Glass
W. Bruce Cameron
Paola Gianturco
David Maraniss
Margaret Atwood
Ann Patchett
Jodi Picoult
Kyle Mills
Daniel Bergner
James Rollins
James Tobin
Tui Sutherland and the Battle of the Books
Laurie R. King
David Ebershoff
Brian Castner
Dr. Lucy Kalanithi
Jim and Lynn Kouf
Hampton Sides
Mardi Link
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Ben Sidran
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Paula McLain
Sarah Chayes
Susan Casey
John U. Bacon
Tess Gerritsen
Garth Stein
Debbie Macomber
Jeff Shaara
Harlan Coben
A.J. Baime & Bryce Hoffman
Nancy Horan
Sophie Kinsella
Rita Mae Brown
Brian Castner & Brian Turner
Kelly Corrigan
George Packer
Steve Luxenberg
Anchee Min
Emily Giffin
Daniel James Brown
Karin Slaughter
Diana Gabaldon
Temple Grandin
Colum McCann
Jason Matthews
Nathaniel Philbrick
Gillian Flynn
Blaine Harden
Buzz Bissinger
Chip Johannessen
Mitch Albom
Benjamin Percy
Michael Paterniti
Jamie Ford
David Finkel
Nikki Giovanni
Sara Paretsky
Natalie Bakopoulos and Elizabeth Kostova
Anna Quindlen and Susan Casey
Michael Sandel
Jodi Picoult and Paula McLain
Vince Gilligan
Janet Evanovich
Alan Cheuse and Geraldine Brooks
Lee Child
Maggie Stiefvater
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Benjamin Busch
Michael Connelly
Writers of “Mad Men”
Sarah Brokaw
Mitch Albom
Paula McLain
Roy Blount, Jr.
Sebastian Junger
Richard Ford
Tom Brokaw
James Bradley
Peter Matthiessen
Karl Marlantes and Philip Caputo
Elmore Leonard

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