Pulitzer Prize winners Gregory Pardlo (Digest) and Gilbert King (Devil in the Grove) top this year’s roster at the fifth annual Morristown Festival of Books.
Talks by more than 50 writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children’s books will be free, at downtown venues within easy walking distance, on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018.
Featured authors announced on Monday include:
- National Book Award winner and five-time Pulitzer finalist Joyce Carol Oates (Night Gaunts).
- Newbery Medal winner Matt de la Peña (Carmela, Full of Wishes).
- Political commentator Chris Matthews (Bobby Kennedy, A Raging Spirit)
- Olympic medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad (Proud, My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream).
Also scheduled: International bestselling authors A.J. Finn, Kate Morton, Diane Chamberlain, Kate Moore, Megan Abbott, Kate Quinn, National Book Award finalists Laini Taylor and Ibi Zoboi, and Star-Ledger columnist Mark DiIonno.
Meanwhile, tickets are on sale for keynote speaker John Kerry. The former Secretary of State will will discuss his memoir, Every Day Is Extra, on Friday, Oct. 12, at the Mayo Performing Arts Center.
Pardlo’s new memoir, Air Traffic, chronicles his journey to manhood in suburban New Jersey after his father lost his job in the 1981 air traffic controller strike.
King’s latest work, Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found, revisits a shocking conspiracy in Florida, 1957.
