2009 National Book Festival Podcast
1) Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor: National Book Festival 09
Sue Monk Kidd is the author of the widely acclaimed nonfiction books “The Dance of the Dissident Daughter” (1996) and “When the Heart Waits” (1990). Her first published novel, the best-seller “The Sec...Show More
2) Walter Mosley: National Book Festival 09
Walter Mosley is the author of the critically acclaimed Easy Rawlins mystery series (Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty and A Little Yellow Dog). Mosley’s other books inc...Show More
3) Michael Connelly: National Book Festival 09
After he read the books of Raymond Chandler, Michael Connelly decided to become a writer. After graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., specializi...Show More
4) Julia Alvarez: National Book Festival 09
Although Julia Alvarez was born in New York City, her family moved to the Dominican Republic shortly after her birth, where she spent the majority of her childhood. In 1960, when Alvarez was 10, her f...Show More
5) Judy Blume: National Book Festival 09
Judy Blume has sold more than 80 million copies of such young-adult best-sellers as Blubber: Just as Long as We’re Together and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret as well as the adult titles Summer ...Show More
6) Jodi Picoult: National Book Festival 09
Jodi Picoult studied creative writing in college and had two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while still a student. Realism -- and a profound desire to be able to pay the rent -- led Pic...Show More
7) Gwen Ifill: National Book Festival 09
Gwen Ifill says she always knew she wanted to be a journalist. The moderator and managing editor of Public Broadcasting’s “Washington Week” and senior correspondent for “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” Ifi...Show More
8) John Irving: National Book Festival 09
John Irving is the best-selling author of “The World According to Garp” (1973), “The Hotel New Hampshire” (1981), “The Cider House Rules” (1985) and “A Prayer for Owen Meany” (1989), among other novel...Show More
9) Lois Lowry: National Book Festival 09
Lois Lowry describes herself as "a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination." A two-time recipient of the Newbery Medal for her novels Number the Stars (1990) and Th...Show More
10) Jon Scieszka: National Book Festival 09
Jon Scieszka is the first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature , a program sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Children's Book Council. He is the autho...Show More
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