This is the fifth annual festival, which each year has drawn increasingly
larger crowds to see and hear favorite authors and to take part in other
activities that recognize the importance of books and reading.
Join the fun with 80 authors, poets and illustrators who will speak and
sign books. This year's Festival includes National Book Award winners
E.L. Doctorow and John Irving; best-selling author Sandra Brown; Rupert
Holmes, the versatile Tony and Edgar award winner who also penned "The
Pina Colada Song"; Tom Wolfe, whose most recent novel is "I
Am Charlotte Simmons"; designer and television personality Chris
Madden; eminent historian David McCullough, author of the recent "1776";
and young people's author Walter Dean Myers.