8th Annual June 13 - 16, 2019 - Nantucket Book Festival
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8th Annual June 13 - 16, 2019
Welcome...
There’s no scene more welcoming to a weary traveler on the last 2019 Committee
ferry back to Nantucket than the blinking red glow of Brant Point Light,
one of the island’s many beacons that points the way home. Co-Chairs The Nantucket The Founders Circle
Buoys, beacons, and lighthouses, these navigational aids have Mary Bergman Book Foundation Meghan Blair-Valero
been guiding mariners around Nantucket’s waters for centuries. Christine Vineis President: Mary Haft Leslie Bresette
At the Nantucket Book Festival, we turn to novels, poems, histories, memoirs, journalism, Vice President: Wendy Hudson Dick Burns
Co-Founders
and short stories as our navigational aids. There’s no denying we find ourselves in a time Meghan Blair-Valero
Vice President: Tharon Dunn Annye Camara
of confusion and fear. Faced with uncertainty in the world, it is easy to feel as though you Treasurer: Jack Fritsch Tharon Dunn
Mary Haft
are adrift at sea. It is our hope that this weekend you hear from an author whose words Clerk: Marsha Egan
Wendy Hudson Marsha Egan
anchor you.
Mary Haft
The Nantucket Book Foundation is pleased to bring a wide range of writers together to Dick Burns
Mary Bergman Wendy Hudson
our faraway island for another incredible weekend. We work hard all year long to find Meghan Blair-Valero Jill and Stephen Karp
Annye Camara
voices our community is hungry to hear, whose message must be amplified. Kate Brosnan
Alicia Carney Heather Reisman
We are grateful to the many authors who traveled great distances (via tiny planes and Dick Burns Wendy Schmidt
Tharon Dunn
big boats) to share this weekend with us. We are thankful to all those that work behind- Tim Ehrenberg
Jennifer Diamond
the-scenes to make this weekend happen: our Festival committee and Foundation’s Elizabeth Galvin
Jack Fritsch
Board of Directors; our sponsors and donors; our volunteers; and our small but mighty Josh Gray Writers Advisory Board
staff. Thank you to our readers, our supporters and champions, our friends that stop us Josh Gray
Ginny Grenham Rob Cocuzzo
with book recommendations and inspire us to make this Festival the best it can be. Amy Jenness
Jill Karp Wyn Cooper
You buoy us. Bee Shay
Michael Schulder Ben Fountain
Ann Sullivan
Christine Vineis Jack Gantos
Instagram: @nantucketbookfestival Anne Troutman
Alice Hoffman
www.instagram.com/nantucketbookfestival/#nantucketbookfestival Maria Waine
#NBF2019authors #NBF2019books Executive Director Daniel Menaker
Ryder Ziebarth
Maddie Hjulstrom Azar Nafisi
Facebook: Nantucket Book Festival Twitter: @ACKBookFestival
www.facebook.com/nantucketbookfestival www.twitter.com/ackbookfestival
#nantucketbookfestival
Program Design: Louise Martling, Eleventh Hour Design, Inc.
Table of Contents Cover Photo and Social Media: Tim Ehrenberg, Brand New – Nantucket
Thur - Sun Schedules:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7 Map of Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-19 PR/Media Relations: Bill DeSousa-Mauk, DeMa Public Relations
Featured Authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-13 Weekend at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-21 Special Projects Coordinator: Mimi Schlichter
Writing Contest & Story Time. . . . . . . . . . . . 14 The Nantucket Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Whova App: Karen Bloomfield
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Whova App . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Silent Auction: Wendy Hudson & Linda Williams
Local Authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-17 / 22-26 Local Authors Tent / Authors in Bars . . . . . 39
Nantucket Book Festival 2019 1
Thursday, June 13 Schedule Friday, June 14 Schedule
12:00 – 1:30 pm 9:00 – 10:30 pm 11:00 – 11:45 pm 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Elin Hilderbrand with Robin Kall: Authors in Bars Craig Johnson Fiction for the Ages: Madeline Miller,
Summer of ‘69
Nantucket Yacht Club SOLD OUT Nantucket Hotel Breeze Bar
Join several of this year’s authors in a comfort-
Methodist Church
The Longmire series of books about
Lea Carpenter, and
John Burnham Schwartz SOLD OUT
Wait List Only
s Ticketed Event • $125 Wait List Only with Kate Brosnan
Sponsored by Caroline Ellis able after-hours setting, while enjoying your Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear Nantucket Culinary Center
favorite beverage. Admission is free; cash bar. are set in contemporary Absaroka County, s Ticketed Event • $125
“Where were you the summer of ‘69?” Throw Wyoming. Rich with landscape, characters, Sponsored by Annye’s Whole Foods
on your bell bottoms, Pucci dress, or tie-dye and history of the West, these mysteries have and the Nantucket Culinary Center
and join Elin Hilderbrand and Robin Kall (host entertained and enlightened Johnson’s readers
of Reading with Robin) as they immerse them-
selves in the spirit of the ‘60’s and discuss Elin’s
Friday, June 14 via his 14 novels. The stakes are always high,
the action exciting, the lessons hard, and the
It’s hard to imagine three novels covering a
wider range of characters geographically,
new novel over lunch. Elin will even tell some 9:00 AM – 1:00 pm friendship of Walt and Henry is unforgettable. chronologically, and creatively than Carpenter’s
of the stories that didn’t make it into the book. Johnson’s books have been adapted for film, Red, White, Blue, Schwartz’s The Red Daughter
Come prepared to share your own memories Children’s Storytimes and Authors and are streamed on Netflix. and Miller’s Circe. Each plunges to depths of
of that summer! Atheneum Garden psychological and emotional discovery and
11:00 – 11:45 am captivates the reader both imaginatively and
Story Times in multiple languages on the
1:30 – 2:15 pm intellectually. Kate Brosnan, Executive Director
half-hour; plus authors from Nantucket and Mystery Panel: The Art of Great Story for The Nantucket Project, will facilitate this
Nat Philbrick with Mindy Todd New England will gather under the Garden tent Telling - Cherie Burns, Steve Axelrod conversation about how their compelling
Quaker Meeting House to talk with readers about their books. Find the and Blue Balliett with Nancy Thayer characters came to life, while you enjoy a
perfect gift for the child in your life! Atheneum Great Hall
Internationally acclaimed author, historian, delicious lunch based on menu suggestions
Nantucket resident, and sailor Nat Philbrick, Mystery authors Steve Axelrod, Blue Balliett, from Aleksandra Crapanzano, author of Eat.
9:00 – 9:45 am
in conversation with Mindy Todd, executive and Cherie Burns take very different paths in Cook. L.A. and The London Cookbook.
producer and host of WCAI’s The Point, will Kirk Wallace Johnson telling their stories. In Nantucket Counterfeit,
discuss his third book about the American Methodist Church Axelrod gives us a poetry-writing police chief. 1:00 – 1:45 pm
Revolution. In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius Balliett’s Out of the Wild Night is a provocative Neel Patel
Founder of the List Project to Resettle Iraqi
of George Washington and the Victory at mystery combined with historic preservation, Atheneum Great Hall
Allies and Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg
Yorktown is a rivetingly dramatic tale with the melding ghostly tales with modern adventure.
Center, Kirk Wallace Johnson will discuss
reveal that ultimately the fate of the American In Diving for Starfish–The Jeweler, The Actress, Author Neel Patel’s debut short story collection
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the
Revolution fell to Washington at sea. The Heiress and One of the World’s Most Al- makes readers confront their most deeply
Natural History Heist of the Century, a book
luring Pieces of Jewelry, Burns tells a masterful held stereotypes. If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi
that takes ornithology and master fly-tying to
3:00 – 4:30 pm detective story in the process of tracing the examines the collisions of old world and new,
the heights of international espionage and high
history of a famous gem. Nancy Thayer, author and the universal themes of love, loss,
Ella Wall Prichard with Janet Schulte crime. Factual reporting meets true crime and
of 31 novels about the mysteries and romance and disappointment.
First Congregational Church classic thriller in this Edgar Award winner for
of family and relationships, is well placed to link
Old North Vestry Best Fact Crime.
these three great storytellers and will moderate 1:00 – 1:45 pm
Sponsored by Baylor University Press their discussion.
10:00 – 10:45 am Elaine Weiss with Mindy Todd
The sub-title to Ella Wall Prichard’s Reclaiming Methodist Church
Joy is “a primer for widows,” and that’s exactly Madeline Miller 12:00 – 12:45 pm
what this book is. Ella acknowledges the over- Methodist Church In The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win
Deborah Landau
whelming grief one feels at the loss of a spouse, Atheneum Great Hall the Vote, award-winning journalist Elaine Weiss
Orange Prize winning author of The Song of
and moves the reader along to practical advice tells the story of how suffragists, anti-suffragists,
Achilles and New York Times bestseller Circe,
about how to reclaim one’s own life and Descriptions of Deborah Landau’s prize-winning lobbyists, and lawmakers descended on
Madeline Miller is a classicist with a contempo-
envision a future once again filled with joy. poetry collections vary from “gorgeous lyricism” Nashville in 1920 to make Tennessee the final
rary sensibility. Once you dive into her world,
Ella will be in conversation with Janet Schulte, to “dark comedy” or “killer wit.” Comparisons to state to ratify the 19th amendment, giving
you will never think Greek mythology could
Nantucket’s Director of Culture and Tourism. Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker and Virginia Woolf women the right to vote. As is clear from Weiss’
possibly be dull, or the stories of the gods
Reception to follow in the church’s lower level. miss the singular originality and impact of her page-turning prose, no one gave women the
and goddesses anything less than relevant
work. Soft Targets, her latest collection, captures right to vote – they fought like hell for it.
and exciting.
life during a global crisis for an imperiled planet
on which all inhabitants are “soft targets.”
Her poetry speaks vitally to us in time of need.
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Friday, June 14 Schedule Saturday, June 15 Schedule
2:00 – 2:45 pm 7:00 – 8:00 pm 9:00 AM – 1:00 pm 11:00 – 11:45 am
Dave Cullen Opening Night Celebration: Local Author Tent Elliot Ackerman with Robert Cocuzzo
Methodist Church How Can We Write When Atheneum Garden Atheneum Great Hall
Sponsored by Fairwinds Everything’s Wrong? Over 30 authors from Nantucket and New
Nantucket’s Counseling Center Featuring Ben Fountain, Combat Marine veteran Elliot Ackerman,
England gather under the garden tent to talk awarded the Purple Heart, Silver Star, and
Madeline Miller, and Dave Cullen with readers about their books. Every genre in
Journalist Dave Cullen was one of the first on Unitarian Universalist Meeting House Bronze Star, understands war from a boots-
the scene at Columbine High School. Two bouts adult fiction and nonfiction will be represented. on-the ground perspective. His writing reaches
of PTSD caused Cullen to cover later tragedies The Nantucket Book Festival invites everyone to Discover the talents of our resident authors and beyond the political and cultural differences
from a distance, but in the wake of the tragedy the Sanctuary of the Unitarian Meeting House take home a new title to enjoy. that divide us to create stories that take us
at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, for our Opening Celebration, which extols the 9:00 – 9:45 am to the other side, the human story of war.
something radically different was happening bond of literature and community to which our With two new books, Waiting for Eden and
and Cullen had to see it for himself. Parkland Festival is dedicated. Authors Ben Fountain, Ben Fountain with Michael Schulder Places and Names: War, Revolution and
is the moving and intimate account of the Madeline Miller, and Dave Cullen will share Atheneum Great Hall Returning, Ackerman witnesses the truth of war
extraordinary teenager survivors who their motivation for writing in our tumultuous Author of the highly acclaimed novel Billy Lynn’s from the perspectives of fiction and nonfiction.
became activists. times. We will also recognize the Island’s Long Half-Time Walk, Ben Fountain speaks He will share his insights in conversation with
youth who show great promise as writers, from the trenches of our current state of divisive- Robert Cocuzzo, editor of N Magazine.
3:00 – 3:45 pm and highlight the Young Writer Award, ness in his new book, Beautiful Country Burn
a perennial cornerstone of the Festival. Again. His vivid essays portray the US today 12:00 – 12:45 pm
Lea Carpenter with Kate Brosnan in its third era of major crisis, on par with the
Atheneum Great Hall 8:00 – 10:00 pm struggle over slavery and the Great Depression. Matt McCarthy with John Stanton
He wrenches us as readers and citizens out of Atheneum Great Hall
Red, White, Blue combines the tension of a Author Dinner
psychological thriller with the sensitivity of an our aimless complaints, and confronts us with Physician, researcher, and ethics professor
Brant Point Grill the social and economic realities in America
insightful memoir. Lea Carpenter proved her s Ticketed Event • $350/$425 Matt McCarthy is on the front lines of a ground-
writing chops in Eleven Days, her moving first today. Interviewing Fountain will be journalist breaking clinical trial testing a new antibiotic
Presented by the White Elephant Hotel Michael Schulder of the Wavemaker podcast.
novel written in the voice of the mother of a Jill Karp, Honorary Chairperson to fight lethal “superbugs,” bacteria that have
specialist ops agent awaiting word of her son’s 10:00 – 10:45 am built up resistance to the life-saving drugs in
fate. Steeping herself in the world of espionage Enjoy a sumptuous buffet dinner overlooking our rapidly dwindling arsenal. This trial serves
for the one and contemporary warfare for the the harbor while rubbing elbows with almost Rowan Ricardo Phillips as the backdrop for the compulsively readable
other, Carpenter beguiles the reader with her 30 of your favorite authors. The dinner, presented Atheneum Great Hall Superbugs, and the results will impact nothing
grasp of the myriad ramifications of family by The White Elephant Hotel, is the perfect Poet, translator, literary and art critic, and less than the future of humanity. Interviewing
relationships amidst mystery, tragedy and loss. ending to a day filled with inspiring author now winner of the 2019 PEN/ ESPN Award for McCarthy will be Nantucket journalist and
conversations. As the only fundraising event Literary Sports Writing, Rowan Ricardo Phillips filmmaker John Stanton.
4:00 – 4:45 pm held Festival weekend, your ticket purchase tracks the competitive world of the 2017 ATP
helps to keep over 75% of our events free men’s tennis tour in The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey. 12:00 – 12:45 pm
John Burnham Schwartz and open to everyone. Tickets $350, or $425
Atheneum Great Hall Phillips offers an oasis of sanity in times of Rebecca Makkai with Tim Ehrenberg
for the Bookends Package (Author Dinner + political turmoil, handing us unexplored poetry
Sunday Breakfast). Methodist Church
The Red Daughter, John Schwartz’s new novel, in tennis as a salve for sore hearts.
is a mesmerizing work of historical fiction telling How do you hold onto your humanity in the
the story of Josef Stalin’s daughter Svetlana, her 9:30 – 11:30 pm 10:30 – 11:30 am midst of crisis? Pushcart Prize-winning author
defection from Russia, and her life in America Festival After-Party Celebrate Reading with Barnaby Bear! Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believer
through the eyes of a young attorney who Lemon Press Dreamland Theater: Free - ticket required intertwines stories that take readers through
closely parallels Schwartz’s own father and s Ticketed Event • $40 Sponsored by Fogged In Bookkeeping the heartbreak of the AIDS crisis in the 1980’s
his role in the defection. Fact and fiction blend Sponsored by Lemon Press and and the chaos in the modern world, as charac-
stunningly in this adroit study of a private and Celebrate the joy of reading with Wendy ters struggle to find goodness in the middle of
Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce Rouillard and Barnaby Bear at a special Book
public life. a disaster. Makkai will share her thoughts with
It may have been a full day, but the party has Festival party! This FREE event will take place at avid reader Tim Ehrenberg, owner of Brand
just begun! Head over to the Lemon Press the Dreamland Theater. There will be a reading, New-Nantucket.
“America is various. It refuses to be Restaurant to enjoy dessert, beverages, music make your own book activity, cupcake
all one thing or all the other.” by Audio Architects, and conversations about decorating and “meet and greet” with “You can’t really teach a kid anything:
- Ben Fountain, “Beautiful Country Burn Again: your favorite books and authors. Barnaby! Each child will receive a hardcover you can only show him the way and
Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution” It’s the perfect way to finish Festival Friday! Barnaby book and tote bag. This event is motivate him to learn it himself.”
limited to 25 children, ages 3-8. - Dave Cullen, “Columbine”
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Saturday, June 15 Schedule Schedule
1:00 – 1:45 pm 2:00–3:30 pm & 4:30–6:00 pm 5:00 – 6:30 pm 11:00 – 11:45 am
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich Young Playwrights CRU Oyster Bar Cookbook Launch Party Sarah Sentilles with Michael Schulder
with Amy Jenness White Heron Theatre CRU Oyster Bar Atheneum Great Hall
Atheneum Great Hall s Ticketed Event • $75 Sarah Sentilles’s life was changed by seeing two
Filmmaker and teacher Jay Craven worked Sponsored by CRU Oyster Bar
Marzano-Lesnevich’s startling memoir The Fact with island students this spring, developing newspaper photos: one of a lifelong conscien-
of a Body follows their story from childhood, tious objector, the other of a U.S. soldier who
original ten minute plays that emphasize stories Celebrate the launch of the CRU Oyster Bar served at Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq
interspersed with the story of a murderer and characters facing and dealing with Nantucket Cookbook with an intimate tasting, War. Interwoven with their stories in Draw Your
they were researching while a law clerk. challenges, obstacles, and conflicts. They will preview and discussion of the book at CRU with Weapons are insights and meditations on vio-
Each narrative informs the other, and their be performed in two sessions at the White authors and owners Erin Zircher, Jane Stoddard lence, war, art, suffering, and dedication, form-
conclusions, personal and professional, are Heron Theatre by professional actors in a and Carlos Hidalgo. Published by St. Martin’s ing a striking new view of how we might lead
revelatory. The Fact of a Body has been staged reading. Nantucket Young Playwrights Press this May, CRU Oyster Bar Nantucket meaningful lives in the midst of these tensions.
acclaimed by The New York Times, the is produced by Kingdom County Productions, Cookbook captures the laid-back, elegant
Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Boston White Heron Theatre Company, Nantucket lifestyle of Nantucket with favorite dishes 12:00 – 12:45 pm
Globe, among many others. Marzano-Lesnevich, Atheneum, and the Nantucket Book Festival. and cocktails from the popular and praised
professor at Bowdoin College, will be in Beowulf Sheehan
restaurant. Savor small bites and libations while
conversation with Amy Jenness, author and Atheneum Great Hall
3:00 – 3:45 pm exploring the flavors of the island. All guests will
Program Director for the Nantucket Atheneum. receive a signed copy of the cookbook. How Beowulf Sheehan has come to be consid-
Sylvia Earle with Michael Schulder ered the foremost author portrait photographer
1:00 – 1:45 pm Methodist Church of his generation becomes apparent when one
Esi Edugyan with Heather Reisman
Methodist Church
Sponsored by the
Linda Loring Nature Foundation Sunday, June 16 spends time with the 200 photos in Author: The
Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan. Due to his sensi-
tive observation, his photos uniquely capture
Legendary oceanographer and deep-sea 9:00 – 10:30 am writers’ most telling attributes. How he manages
In Washington Black, award-winning Canadian explorer Sylvia Earle has been documenting to achieve this sense of intimacy is among the
novelist Esi Edugyan tells the beautifully wrought the wonders of the ocean since her first dive in Craig Johnson: The American West topics Beowulf will touch on in his presentation.
tale of a young slave on Barbados who becomes 1952. In The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and Meets the Seashore
a scientist and illustrator through an encounter with the Ocean’s are One, Earle chronicles how the Brant Point Grill 12:00 – 3:00 pm
an eccentric slave-holding Englishman. The tale told ocean’s ecosystems, which make human life s Ticketed Event • $125/$425
is not easy, with no clear path to salvation for Wash, Cisco Send-Off with Elin Hilderbrand
possible, are “being destroyed at breathtaking and Literary Pet Photos
as the titular character is called. Edugyan crafts the Gather with us to meet master storyteller and
speed” by climate change, overfishing, and Cisco Brewers
lives of the slaves on Faith Plantation with the rich New York Times best-selling author Craig
pollution. This conversation will feature rare
complexity of intellect, heart, and soul that inhabit Johnson, the creator of the heroes of the Gather at noontime at Cisco Brewers on our
images from Earle’s underwater expeditions
her characters, and the ambiguity of life post-slav- Longmire series, Walt Longmire, Henry Stand- final day of the Festival for great food, music,
and lay out her global plan to protect the
ery. Lives are physically free but psychologically ing Bear, and Vic Morretti. A charmer himself, and conversation for readers and writers alike.
ocean and reverse its decline. Get your copy of Summer of ‘69 signed by
bewildered in the context of a new world. Johnson will share with us the purpose and
Esi Edugyan will be joined in conversation vision of his internationally loved books. Elin Hilderbrand herself. Photographer Laurie
4:00 – 4:45 pm Richards will be on hand to take pictures of your
with Indigo Books CEO Heather Reisman. Tickets $125, or $425 for the
Bookends Package favorite feline or canine for our next Literary Pet
Jill Abramson with Marianne Stanton Calendar! Shuttle available from the Visitor’s
2:00 – 2:45 pm Methodist Church (Friday Author Dinner + Sunday Breakfast) Center on Federal Street. No tickets required;
Susan Orlean Jill Abramson spent 17 years in the most senior pay for your own food and drinks.
10:00 – 10:45 am
Methodist Church editorial positions at The New York Times,
where she was the first woman to serve as Charles Graeber with Robert Cocuzzo 1:00 – 1:45 pm
The Library Book is a tribute to an institution
Washington bureau chief, managing editor, Atheneum Great Hall Corky Laing & Tuija Takala with John Shea
that Susan Orlean considers formative to her
love of reading and writing, and to the magic and executive editor. In Merchants of Truth Atheneum Great Hall
Why doesn’t our immune system fight
and stability libraries bring to our culture. It is Abramson details two legacy (The New York
cancer the way it fights other diseases? Drummer Corky Laing of Mountain and West,
also a formidable history of one library system, Times and The Washington Post) and two up- Bruce & Laing is a rock and roll legend—but he’s
Edgar Award-nominated author Charles
the Los Angeles Public Library, and of the start (BuzzFeed and VICE) companies as they also the youngest of five children. While on the
Graeber’s The Breakthrough details the
mystery and near tragedy of the great fire at its endure a revolution in technology, economics, road, he found the best way to maintain close
astonishing scientific discovery of the code to
main branch in 1986. Orlean describes herself standards, and commitment that pits old vs. ties to his mother was by writing letters –
unleashing the human immune system to fight
as a journalist, author, dog owner, gardener, new media. Interviewing Abramson will be hundreds of them. Letters to Sarah details the
– and possibly even cure – cancer, that was first 50 years of Corky’s life, and was co-written
parent, and “once in a blue moon movie Marianne Stanton, editor and publisher of
awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine. with his manager and partner Tuija Takala.
inspiration and doodler.” She will bring a Nantucket’s The Inquirer and Mirror.
Laing and Takala will share the stage with
wealth of experience with her to our stage. actor, producer, and director John Shea.
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Featured Authors Featured Authors
Jill Abramson is a senior lecturer at Harvard University. She also writes a bi-weekly Lea Carpenter’s first appearance at the Book Festival was as interviewer for Elliot
column for The Guardian about US politics. She spent 17 years in the most senior Ackerman in 2017. She is the author of Eleven Days (2013), which Publisher’s Weekly
editorial positions at The New York Times, where she was the first woman to serve as praised as having “poignant prose and an impeccably structured narrative”;
Washington bureau chief, managing editor, and executive editor. Before joining the her second novel, Red, White, Blue, was released August 21, 2018. Carpenter
Times, she spent nine years at The Wall Street Journal. The author of Merchants of worked in literary publishing for ten years and was the founding editor for the
Truth, she lives in New York City. Penguin Lives series.
Saturday • 4:00 pm • Methodist Church Friday • 12:00 pm • Nantucket Culinary Center
Friday • 3:00 pm • Atheneum Great Hall
Jill Abramson Lea Carpenter
Elliot Ackerman is the critically acclaimed author of the novels Dark at the Crossing Dave Cullen has been covering the blight of mass murders in America for two
and Green on Blue. He is both a former White House Fellow and a Marine, and has decades, first with Columbine, now Parkland: Birth of a Movement. Columbine was
served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, a New York Times bestseller and the consensus definitive account. Parkland is a story
the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. His new novel Waiting for Eden was of hope: the genesis of the extraordinary March for Our Lives movement. Dave was
released in September and his nonfiction book, Places and Names, will be released with the students from the beginning, with unparalleled access behind the scenes.
in June 2019.
Friday • 2:00 pm • Methodist Church
Saturday • 11:00 am • Atheneum Great Hall Friday • 7:00 pm • Unitarian Universalist Meeting House
Elliot Ackerman Dave Cullen
Steven Axelrod’s work has appeared at Salon.com, The GoodMenProject, and Sylvia Earle is President and Chairman of Mission Blue / The Sylvia Earle Alliance.
The Atticus Books Blog as well various magazines. Steven also writes the Henry Kennis She is a National Geographic Society Explorer in Residence, and is called
mysteries for Poisoned Pen Press. Number five in the series, Nantucket Counterfeit, “Her Deepness” by the New Yorker and the New York Times, “Living Legend” by
was published in 2018. Number six, Nantucket Penny, will be coming out in the spring the Library of Congress, and “first Hero for the Planet” by Time Magazine. She is an
of 2020. A father of two, Steven lives on Nantucket, where he paints houses and oceanographer, explorer, author and lecturer with experience as a field research
writes, often at the same time, much to the annoyance of his customers. scientist, government official, and director for several corporate and non-profit
organizations.
Friday • 11:00 am • Atheneum Great Hall
Saturday • 3:00 pm • Methodist Church
Steven Axelrod Sylvia Earle
Blue Balliett’s seven young adult mysteries have been New York Times, Publisher’s Esi Edugyan is author of the novels The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Half-Blood Blues,
Weekly, and USA Today bestsellers. Among many prizes and awards, Blue won the and Washington Black. Both Half-Blood Blues and Washington Black won the
Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Juvenile Novel, the Agatha Award for Best YA Novel, Scotiabank Giller Prize, were finalists for the Man Booker Prize and the Rogers
and a place in the official White House library when The Danger Box was handed to Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
President Obama in January 2011 as a gift from the American Booksellers Association.
Out of the Wild Night, both a ghost story and a mystery, is set entirely on Nantucket. Saturday • 1:00 pm • Methodist Church
Friday • 11:00 am • Atheneum Great Hall
Blue Balliett Esi Edugyan
Cherie Burns is the author of Diving for Starfish—The Jeweler, The Actress, The Heiress Ben Fountain quit his position with a Dallas law firm in 1988 to write fiction full-time.
and One of the World’s Most Alluring Pieces of Jewelry. Her previous book, the His collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories, appeared in 2006
biography Searching for Beauty—The Life of Millicent Rogers, the American Heiress and earned for Fountain the PEN/Hemingway Award among others. In 2012, his
Who Taught the World About Style was published in 2012. Burns’s earlier books are debut novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, received the National Book Critics
The Great Hurricane: 1938 and Stepmotherhood—How to Survive Without Feeling Circle Award. Ben’s new book Beautiful Country Burn Again was published in
Frustrated, Left Out or Wicked. September 2018.
Friday • 11:00 am • Atheneum Great Hall Saturday • 9:00 am • Atheneum Great Hall
Friday • 7:00 pm • Unitarian Universalist Meeting House
Cherie Burns Ben Fountain
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Featured Authors Featured Authors
Charles Graeber is the Edgar Award-nominated, New York Times bestselling author Deborah Landau is the author of Soft Targets and three other books of poetry,
of The Good Nurse. His newest, The Breakthrough, was published in 2018. Winner including prize-winning Orchidelirium. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review,
of the Overseas Press Club award for outstanding international journalism, he has Tin House, Poetry, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times,
contributed to numerous publications, including The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. She was educated at
and The New York Times. His work has been included in The Best American Science Stanford, Columbia, and Brown, where she earned her PhD. Currently she is the
Writing, The Best American Crime Writing, and other anthologies. director of the NYU Creative Writing Program.
Sunday • 10:00 am • Atheneum Great Hall Friday • 12:00 pm • Atheneum Great Hall
Charles Graeber Deborah Landau
Elin Hilderbrand spent her childhood summers on Cape Cod, and moved to Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels The Great Believers,
Nantucket in 1993. Her first novel, The Beach Club, appeared in 2000 and has The Hundred-Year House, and The Borrower, as well as the short story collection Music
been followed by almost two dozen more books, all of which are set in the world for Wartime. Her short fiction won a 2017 Pushcart Prize, and was chosen for The Best
of Nantucket. Elin does her best writing on the beaches of Nantucket and on the American Short Stories for four consecutive years (2008-2011). The recipient of a
charming streets of Beacon Hill in Boston. Summer of ‘69, her 22nd novel, will be 2014 NEA fellowship, Makkai is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada College and
released on June 18, 2019. Northwestern University, and she is the Artistic Director of Story Studio Chicago.
Thursday • 12:00 pm • Nantucket Yacht Club Saturday • 12:00 pm • Methodist Church
Sunday • 12:00 pm • Cisco Brewers
Elin Hilderbrand Rebecca Makkai
Craig Johnson is the author of eight novels in the Walt Longmire mystery series, which Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir,
has garnered popular and critical acclaim. The Dark Horse, the fifth in the series, was named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Audible.com,
a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Junkyard Dogs won the Watson Award for Bustle, Book Riot, The Times of London, and The Guardian, and a finalist for a
a mystery novel with the best sidekick, and Hell Is Empty, selected by Library Journal New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. The recipient of fellow-
was a New York Times best seller. The Walt Longmire series is the basis for the hit A&E ships from The National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Yaddo, as well as
drama Longmire. Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25. a Rona Jaffe Award, they are an Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College.
Friday • 11:00 am • Methodist Church Saturday • 1:00 pm • Atheneum Great Hall
Sunday • 9:00 am • Brant Point Grill
Craig Johnson Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Kirk Wallace Johnson is the author of The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and Matt McCarthy, MD is the author of two national bestsellers, The Real Doctor Will
the Natural History Heist of the Century and To Be a Friend is Fatal: the Fight to Save See You Shortly and Odd Man Out. His new book is Superbugs: The Race to Stop
the Iraqis America Left Behind. Johnson previously served in Iraq with the U.S. Agency an Epidemic. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell and a staff
for International Development in Baghdad and then Fallujah as the Agency’s first physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where he serves on the Ethics Commit-
coordinator for reconstruction. He is a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center tee. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Slate, The New England Journal
on Communication Leadership and Policy. of Medicine, and Deadspin.
Friday • 9:00 am • Methodist Church Saturday • 12:00 pm • Atheneum Great Hall
Kirk Wallace Johnson Matt McCarthy
Corky Laing is best known as the drummer of the legendary bands Mountain and Madeline Miller has taught and tutored Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high school
West, Bruce & Laing and over the years, he has played, recorded and written with the students for the past twenty years. The Song of Achilles, her first novel, was awarded
who’s-who of rock. He has received multiple gold records, several Juno Awards and the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a New York Times Bestseller. Her second
was given the Bonzo Bash Legend Award in 2014. novel, Circe, was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, and won the 2018 Elle Big
Book Award. She currently lives outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Tuija Takala, PhD is a widely published academic author with over 70 international
articles, and 16 books and edited collections to her name. Since 2012, Tuija has been Friday • 10:00 am • Methodist Church
working closely with Corky as his manager and partner. Friday • 12:00 pm • Nantucket Culinary Center
Friday • 7:00 pm • Unitarian Universalist Meeting House
Corky Laing & Madeline Miller
Tuija Takala Sunday • 1:00 pm • Atheneum Great Hall
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Featured Authors Featured Authors
Susan Orlean is the author of eight books, including The Bullfighter Checks Her John Burnham Schwartz is the bestselling author of five novels, including Northwest
Makeup; My Kind of Place; Saturday Night; and Lazy Little Loafers. In 1999, Corner, The Commoner, and Reservation Road, which was made into a film based
she published The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award-winning on his screenplay. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and he
film, “Adaptation.” Her book, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, a New York Times has done extensive screen and television writing for the major Hollywood studios.
Notable book, won the Ohioana Book Award and the Richard Wall Memorial Award. His latest book, The Red Daughter was published in April. Literary Director of the
Her book about the arson fire at the Los Angeles Public Library, The Library Book, was Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.
published in 2018.
Friday • 12:00 pm • Nantucket Culinary Center
Saturday • 2:00 pm • Methodist Church Friday • 4:00 pm • Atheneum Great Hall
Susan Orlean John Burnham Schwartz
Neel Patel is a first-generation Indian American who grew up in Champaign, Illinois. Sarah Sentilles is a writer, teacher, critical theorist, scholar of religion, and author of
His short stories have appeared in Indiana Review, The Southampton Review, Hyphen many books, including Breaking Up with God: A Love Story. Her most recent book,
Magazine, The American Literary Review, and on Nerve.com. His first book, If You See Draw Your Weapons, won the 2018 PEN Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her writing
Me, Don’t Say Hi, was published in 2018 by Flatiron Books, an imprint of Macmillan. has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Oprah Magazine, Ms.,
He lives in Los Angeles, where he is at work on a novel. Religion Dispatches, Oregon ArtsWatch, and the Los Angeles Review of Books,
among other publications. She is the co-founder of the Immigration Alliance of Idaho.
Friday • 1:00 pm • Atheneum Great Hall
Sunday • 11:00 am • Atheneum Great Hall
Neel Patel Sarah Sentilles
Nathaniel Philbrick moved to Nantucket in 1986. He is the author of the New York Beowulf Sheehan is a photographer of figures and performance in the arts,
Times bestsellers In the Heart of the Sea (National Book Award); Mayflower (Pulitzer entertainment, and the humanities. Through 2018 he has photographed more than
Prize finalist); Bunker Hill (New England Book Award); Valiant Ambition (2017 George 800 biographers, journalists, novelists, poets, and playwrights from over 40 countries.
Washington Book Prize), and most recently, In the Hurricane’s Eye. Nat’s memoir, His work has been published and exhibited in The New Yorker, Newsweek, Time,
Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor, An Island, and the Voyage that Brought a Family and Vanity Fair, and at the Museum of the City of New York, Dostoevsky Museum,
Together was reissued in March 2018. the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Author:
The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan, is his first book.
Thursday • 1:30 pm • NHA Quaker Meeting House
Sunday • 12:00 pm • Atheneum Great Hall
Nathaniel Philbrick Beowulf Sheehan
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of two award-winning books of poetry: Heaven, Elaine Weiss is an award-winning journalist and writer. Her magazine feature writing
and The Ground. His new book, The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, is a finalist for the 2019 has been recognized with prizes from the Society of Professional Journalists, and her
PEN/ESPN Literary sports writing. Phillips has taught at Columbia University, Harvard by-line has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, New York Times, Boston Globe,
University, Princeton University, and Stony Brook University, where he was also director Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as reports and documentaries for NPR and Voice of
of the Poetry Center. A fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York America. Her long-form writing garnered a Pushcart Prize “Editor’s Choice” award,
University, Phillips divides his time between New York City and Barcelona, Spain. and she is a proud MacDowell Colony Fellow. Her featured work is The Woman’s
Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote.
Saturday • 10:00 am • Atheneum Great Hall
Friday • 1:00 pm • Methodist Church
Rowan Ricardo Phillips Elaine Weiss
Ella Wall Prichard is the president of Prichard Oil Company and is highly involved
in her community and church. A mother and grandmother, she is a frequent speaker
on the subject of widowhood and has encouraged and supported widows around
the country. Reclaiming Joy: A Primer for Widows is her first book. Ella blogs at Many of our author sessions will be available for viewing after the
www.ellawallprichard.com, where other resources on widowhood can be found. Festival thanks to the generous sponsorship of NCTV-18 and Haft Productions.
Thursday • 3:00 pm • First Congregational Church, Old North Vestry For more information visit:
www.nantucketcommunitytelevision.org
Ella Wall Prichard
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FR Nantucket Book We’re grateful to the following contributors
Festival Story Times to the 2019 Book Festival
Kate Brosnan is the co-founder of the Michael Schulder is host of Wavemaker
Nantucket Project. She has been a Conversations: A Podcast for the
For children ages 2-10 passionate Nantucket resident for Insanely Curious. He also hosted
Bring your toddlers and young children to The Nantucket Book Festival over 35 years. the radio program CNN Profiles
and spent five years as a writer for
series of Story Times, where our local authors Peter Jennings at ABC News.
will read aloud stories to their rapt audience!
Robert Cocuzzo is the longtime editor Janet Schulte is Director of Culture and
Story Times: of N Magazine, the author of Tracking Tourism for the Town of Nantucket. She
Friday, June 14 • Atheneum Garden the Wild Coomba: The Life of Legendary is active in many community organiza-
Skier Doug Coombs and the forthcom- tions and currently serves as Moderator
10 AM – 1:30 PM ing Road to San Donato, due out of the First Congregational Church.
New story every 20 minutes in September.
Check the schedule at the tent for specifics. Tim Ehrenberg moved to Nantucket John Shea is an Emmy Award winning
A parent or care-giver must remain with Island in 2013. He owns BRAND NEW - actor, film director, screenwriter and
toddlers during the programs. Nantucket, a branding and marketing producer who has starred in 50 films,
agency for a variety of local Island four television series, and 20 plays on
businesses and nonprofits including and off Broadway and in London.
Nantucket Book Partners and Nantucket Book Festival.
Calling all writers! Amy Jenness is the author of On This
Day In Nantucket History (2014). She
has been a managing editor of Vermont
John Stanton has documented local
culture on the decline in films like
Leather Soul, and Last Call, and
Antiques Depot Annual Writing Competition Business Magazine and associate editor explored impromptu communities in
of N Magazine. Currently, Amy produces Witch City, and Wood Sails Dreams.
This short story writing competition launches on Saturday, June 15th library programs at the Nantucket Atheneum.
at the Nantucket Book Festival. Writers of all ages are invited to choose
an object at the Antiques Depot at 2 South Beach Street Robin Kall’s author events and monthly Marianne Stanton, a Nantucket native,
(no purchase necessary) that sparks their imagination and then write a reading series to her weekly “ish” pod- is editor and publisher of the award
story, putting their new-found knowledge and imagination to work. cast and Facebook pages have told winning newspaper, The Inquirer and
you what to read for almost 20 years. Mirror and Nantucket Today magazine.
Visit our table at the Author’s Tent in the Atheneum Garden She can either be found with a book in
Saturday, June 15th from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm to view a selection of her hands or with her beloved corgi, Benny Irving.
antique curiosities for inspiration and to pick up an entry form.
Heather Reisman is the founder, Chair Nancy Thayer’s latest novel, Surfside Sisters,
For more information visit our website nantucketantiquesdepot.com. and CEO of Indigo, Canada’s largest will be out July 2, 2019. Her novels have
All entries must be submitted by July 15th. book, lifestyle and specialty toy retailer, been condensed or excerpted in literary
The winners in the young people’s category and co-founder of Kobo, a leading reviews and magazines. She has lived
will receive their choice of prizes. global eReading company. on Nantucket with her husband, Charley
Walters, for over 33 years.
The winner in the adult category will receive
a gift certificate to The Antiques Depot. Wendy Rouillard is the creator of the Mindy Todd is host and executive
Barnaby Bear children’s book series. producer of The Point on WCAI which
Best of luck and we look forward to reading your stories! Her artwork has graced the covers and examines critical issues for the Cape,
Antiques Depot, 2 South Beach Street, Nantucket pages of magazines, newspapers, and Islands and Southcoast.
more than 25 children’s books. Wendy
Jack and Ciara Fritsch (Proprietors)
lives on Nantucket with her two daughters.
nantucketantiquesdepot.com • 508-228-1287
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Local Authors Local Authors
Bretworth Barry Apthorp lives on Nantucket Island with her husband Ken, two Chihua- Jennifer Blecher lives outside of Boston and on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband,
huas and of course, Maisie. When she is not driving around in Maisie she can be found their three daughters, and a dog named Winnie. She writes about friendship, creative
in her studio making fine silver jewelry. She loves walking on the beach, gardening, kids, mistakes, and acts of courage. Her book, Out of Place, is published by Harper
and spending time with her family. Collins.
Brett Apthorp Jennifer Blecher
Lucia Arno-Bernsen’s roots on Nantucket span 63 years, from when her parents Susan Boardman is a Nantucket artist who uses her art to tell stories humble and
opened the first Italian restaurant, Vincent’s, and later Arno’s. Her career includes sales grand, historic and contemporary, contributing to the rich fabric of Nantucket life.
and marketing in the cable industry, and feature/newspaper writing. Sharing tales of Sometimes Think of Me features exquisite embroidered narratives. Showcasing the
her dog, Duncan, Bark Once for a Cheeseburger, takes place on Nantucket. colorful lives of women from four centuries of island history, each is accompanied by
a biography written by Betsy Tyler, author and NGA Research Fellow, along with
images of relevant art, documents and artifacts.
Lucia Arno Bernson Susan Boardman
RC Atchisson proudly celebrates old truths in new tales. The Nantucket-based romantic Peter Brace is an environmental writer who has lived on Nantucket since 1992. A hiker
comedies of his 30 Miles Out series are described as breezy reads with heart AND and kayaker, Peter is the author of Walking Nantucket; A Walker’s Guide to Exploring
soul. He has written for both stage and screen including the original screenplay kick the Island on Foot and Nantucket: A Natural History.
bACK based on his book of the same name.
RC Atchisson Peter Brace
Locally known as Mrs. Avery, D. Avery came to Nantucket for a summer job forty years Jennifer Carlson, Ph.D., CEM® is a New England emergency management expert,
ago and here she is. Born and raised in rural northern New England, she is never quite facilitator, speaker, trainer, university faculty member, and author of Exploring the
out of the woods, though she has been in other fields, including landscape gardening Professionalization of Emergency [Disaster] Management. She has dedicated her life
and education. Her book, Ever After: Little Stories For Grown Children is a collection of in service to the emergency management field, deploying on disasters from hurricane
adult fiction short stories. Katrina to the Boston Marathon bombings. Her book, Write Your Story: A Self-Start,
Write Your Own Biography allows the reader to immerse in content with the intention
of surfacing memories and writing one’s own life story.
D. Avery Jennifer Carlson
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16 #nantucketbookfestival Nantucket Book Festival 2019 171 1. White Elephant 50 Easton Street
2. Nantucket Yacht Club 1 South Beach Street
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3. Quaker Meeting House 7 Fair Streets
4. Nantucket Bookworks 25 Broad Street
5. Nantucket Visitor Services & Information 25 Federal Street
6. Nantucket Culinary Center 22 Federal Street
7. Methodist Church 2 Centre Street
2 8. Nantucket Atheneum 1 India Street
13 9. Mitchell’s Book Corner 54 Main Street
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10. Unitarian Meeting House 11 Orange Street
11. Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce Zero Main Street
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16 17 12. Nantucket Hotel 77 Easton Street
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8 13. The White Heron Theater 5 North Water Street
14. First Congregational Church 62 Centre Street
11 15. Lemon Press Restaurant 41 Main Street
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16. Dreamland Theater 17 South Water Street
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17. CRU Oyster Bar 1 Straight Wharf
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The Nantucket Book Festival
is proud to be a member of the
Nantucket Island
10 Chamber of Commerce
18 #nantucketbookfestival Nantucket Book Festival 2018 19Weekend at a Glance
Thursday June 13 1:00 pm Neel Patel
Atheneum Great Hall
Saturday June 15 4:00 pm Jill Abramson
Methodist Church
12:00 pm Elin Hilderbrand with Robin Kall: 9 am – 1 pm Local Author Tent
Summer of ‘69 1:00 pm Elaine Weiss with Mindy Todd 5 – 6:30 pm CRU Oyster Bar
Over 30 authors from Nantucket
Sponsored by Caroline Ellis Methodist Church Cookbook Launch Party
and New England gather under
s Ticketed Event Sponsored by CRU Oyster Bar
the garden tent to talk with
Nantucket Yacht Club 2:00 pm Dave Cullen s Ticketed Event
readers about their books.
Methodist Church CRU Oyster Bar
1:30 pm Nat Philbrick with Mindy Todd Atheneum Garden
Sponsored by Fairwinds –
NHA Quaker Meeting House
Nantucket’s Counseling Center 9:00 am Ben Fountain with Michael Schulder
3:00 pm Ella Wall Prichard with Janet Schulte Atheneum Great Hall
First Congregational Church,
Old North Vestry
3:00 pm Lea Carpenter with Kate Brosnan
Atheneum Great Hall 10:00 am Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Atheneum Great Hall
Sunday June 16
Sponsored by Baylor University Press
4:00 pm John Burnham Schwartz 9:00 am Craig Johnson: The American West
9:00 pm Authors in Bars Atheneum Great Hall 10:30 am Celebrate Reading with Barnaby Bear! Meets the Seashore
Nantucket Hotel Breeze Bar Sponsored by Fogged In Bookkeeping s Ticketed Event
7:00 pm Opening Night Celebration: Free - ticket required Brant Point Grill
How Can We Write Dreamland Theater
When Everything’s Wrong? This event is limited to 25 children, 10:00 am Charles Graeber with Robert Cocuzzo
Friday June 14 Featuring Ben Fountain,
Madeline Miller, and Dave Cullen,
with the Young Writer Awards
ages 3-8. Atheneum Great Hall
11:00 am Elliot Ackerman with Robert Cocuzzo 11:00 am Sarah Sentilles with Michael Schulder
9 am – 1 pm Children’s Storytimes and Authors Unitarian Universalist Meeting House Atheneum Great Hall Atheneum Great Hall
Atheneum Garden
8:00 pm Author Dinner 12:00 pm Matt McCarthy with John Stanton
Presented by the White Elephant Hotel 12:00 pm Beowulf Sheehan
9:00 am Kirk Wallace Johnson Atheneum Great Hall
Jill Karp, Honorary Chairperson Atheneum Great Hall
Methodist Church
s Ticketed event 12:00 pm Rebecca Makkai with Tim Ehrenberg
White Elephant Brant Point Grill Methodist Church 12:00 pm Cisco Send-Off with Elin Hilderbrand
10:00 am Madeline Miller
and Literary Pet Photos
Methodist Church As the only event designed to fundraise
1:00 pm Alex Marzano-Lesnevich Cisco Brewers
for the Book Festival, your ticket
with Amy Jenness
11:00 am Craig Johnson purchase helps to keep over 75% of our
Atheneum Great Hall 1:00 pm Corky Laing & Tuija Takala
Methodist Church events free and open to everyone.
with John Shea
Tickets $350, or $425 for the 1:00 pm Esi Edugyan with Heather Reisman Atheneum Great Hall
11:00 am Mystery Panel: The Art of Great Story Bookends Package Methodist Church
Telling - Cherie Burns, Steve Axelrod (Author Dinner + Sunday Breakfast).
and Blue Balliett with Nancy Thayer 2:00 pm Susan Orlean
Atheneum Great Hall Methodist Church s Ticketed Event
9:30 pm Festival After-Party
For ticket information go to
Sponsored by Lemon Press and the
12:00 pm Deborah Landau 2 pm Young Playwrights www.nantucketbookfestival.org.
Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce
Atheneum Great Hall & 4:30 pm Nantucket Young Playwrights will
s Ticketed Event Or, visit the information booth in the
present staged readings of original
Lemon Press Restaurant Atheneum Garden June 14th & 15th.
12:00 pm Fiction for the Ages: Madeline Miller, student-written 10-minute plays,
Lea Carpenter, and John Burnham performed by professional actors in Festival merchandise will be available at the
Schwartz with Kate Brosnan association with the White Heron author events and in our island bookstores.
Sponsored by Annye’s Whole Foods “The library is a gathering pool of narratives Theater.
and the Nantucket Culinary Center and of the people who come to find them. White Heron Theatre
s Ticketed Event It is where we can glimpse immortality; “When I was born, the word
Nantucket Culinary Center in the library, we can live forever.” 3:00 pm Sylvia Earle with Michael Schulder
Sponsored by the for what I was did not exist.”
- Susan Orlean, “The Library Book” Linda Loring Nature Foundation - Madeline Miller, “Circe”
Methodist Church
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Christine Carroll writes children’s books and is also the author of a novel, Two Pennies Sondra Helene is a board member and writer at GrubStreet. Past president of Friends
Overboard, set on Nantucket Island. Her children’s titles include The Winter Night That of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, she has also done fundraising for lung
Changed the World, a book for young children about Washington’s famous crossing cancer, having lost her sister to the disease. She is a member of Hadassah and
of the Delaware in 1776, and Princess Ava’s Nantucket Adventures: Christmas Stroll. Combined Jewish Philanthropies. She loves skiing, yoga, Pilates, and Nantucket.
The Carroll Family has owned a home on Nantucket for the past 29 years. Her book is titled Appearances.
Christine Carroll Sondra Helene
Don Cerow has researched the astronomy and mythology of ancient cultures. In 2003, Jan Jacobi is a teacher and writer from St. Louis, Missouri. He has taught seventh and
he reconstructed a Stonehenge in the Hamptons (covered by the New York Times). eighth grade students for 46 continuous years. He and his family have been summer
In 2005, he produced a planetarium show for the University of Colorado, and in 2012 residents on Nantucket since 1970. It took him seven years to write Young Lincoln.
he was a speaker at the Conference for Precession and Ancient Knowledge. Parts of it were written on Nantucket. Young Lincoln is a novel featuring Abe himself
telling the story of his years in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois.
Don Cerow Jan Jacobi
Jim Delay is an award-winning humor writer. He has also been a reporter, writer, A writer for three decades, Amy Jenness has written for many island publications, and
and editor for Life magazine where he covered the White House, the Congress, her poetry has appeared in Moors Poetry Collective publications. She has been a
the space program, the civil rights movement, and reported on science, medicine, managing editor of Vermont Business Magazine and associate editor of N Magazine.
sports, entertainment, and more hurricanes, fires, and floods than he expected. Currently, Amy produces library programs and events at the Nantucket Atheneum.
Jim Delay
Amy Jenness
Mary Haft is a writer, producer, and founder of HAFT PRODUCTIONS, LLC, Moirar M. Leveille is a LMHC, NLP, and the CEO of Mind time, LLC where she provides
specializing in documentaries for nonprofits. Co-Founder of the Nantucket Book multilingual life coaching and mental health consulting both locally and internationally.
Festival, President of The Nantucket Book Foundation, and Vice-President of She has provided mental health counseling to island residents for almost a decade.
the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, she is the author of Nantucket: Portrait of an Mind Your Life, One Day at a Time is a book of life, providing awareness and tools to
American Town. help individuals outgrow their belief system to stay motivated and committed to actions
that will lead to happiness and fulfillment.
Mary Haft Moirar Leveille
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Stewart Lewis is a singer songwriter and author whose books have been translated Jenny Montgomery has loved reading, writing, and everything to do with the ocean
into five languages. He lives in Washington DC and Nantucket MA, with his husband since she can remember. In writing Salty, a book about a young seagull looking for
and his French Bulldog, Oliver. His book, Look Closer, was released February of his place in the world, she has combined all of these loves. Jenny enjoys reading to
this year. children, especially her own, Ella and Charlie. Siasconset and Madaket are her
favorite parts of Nantucket.
Stewart Lewis
Jenny Montgomery
Melissa MacVicar lives on Nantucket Island where she writes novels and teaches writ- Meg Lukens Noonan is an award-winning freelance journalist who has written for
ing to seventh graders. She is the author of three novels set in Nantucket - Ever Near, The New York Times, Travel + Leisure, Coastal Living, Outside, National Geographic
Ever Lost, and One Broken Day. Adventure and many other publications. She divides her time between New Hampshire
and Nantucket. The Coat Route explores the clubby world of luxury bespoke tailoring.
Part travelogue, part fashion history and part love song to the craftsmen behind
the making of one fabulous overcoat, it was named the “Best General Nonfiction
Book of 2013” by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Melissa MacVicar Meg Lukens Noonan
As a boy growing up in Venice, Alex Mautner would construct vignettes using materials For more than 35 years Greg O’Brien was a writer, editor, investigative reporter and
at hand. The stories he told were fueled by movies like The Thief of Bagdad and publisher for the Associated Press, USA Today, Providence Journal, Cape Cod Times
Tarzan. Now, many years and careers later (chicken farmer, engineer, art dealer…), and Boston Magazine. He is now president of a political and communications strategy
Alex is completing the circle, making up stories illustrated with vignettes sculpted company on Cape Cod. When he was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s
from wine cork wrap. Disease he decided to write the book On Pluto: Inside the Mind Of Alzheimer’s.
Alex Mautner Greg O’Brien
Bobbi McPeak fell in love with Nantucket in 1993 and has been trying to capture the Lama Yeshe Palmo, Buddhist nun, author, educator, and professional naturalist, moved
essence of this beautiful island ever since, mainly through long beach walks. She has to Nantucket in 2010 from the Hudson Valley, and immediately set about exploring the
written and illustrated two children’s books featuring the island, Santa Claus Moves island’s natural and cultural history. Her current book is a culmination of eight years
to Nantucket and Nantucket Playground, as well as writing another book, S of field study and the taking of over thousands of images of the island’s botanical
ailing Nantucket Sound/Captain Jim’s Adventure. treasures, detailing the rare, the unique, and the common species of wild trees, shrubs,
and woody vines of natural Nantucket with over 1200 color photographs.
Bobbi McPeak Lama Yeshe Palmo
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