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National Book Festival in Washington. She is the co-author with her daughter Jenna of “Read All About It!” Mrs. Bush’s most recent book is the memoir “Spoken from the Heart.” There will not be a book signing.
History & Biography
pavilion
10 A.M. 1 GORDON S. WOOD A professor of history at Brown Univer- sity, Gordon S. Wood is the author of several critically acclaimed and widely read histories, including “Revolution- ary Characters: What Made the Found- ers Different” and “The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of His- tory.” His book in the multi-volume Ox- ford History of the United States, “Em- pire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815,” was recently pub- lished. Signing 11 a.m.
10:35 A.M. 2 LAURA BUSH In 2001 Laura Bush joined with the Li- brary of Congress to launch the first
notable Americans If you’re interested in ...
The lives of
gravitating between two pavilions: His- tory & Biography and Contemporary Life. Former First Lady Laura Bush (His-
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tory & Biography at 10:35 a.m.) returns to the festival she launched in 2001, modeling it on a similar event she started as first lady of Texas in 1995. You can begin your American Lives Day by listening to Mrs. Bush discuss her recently published memoir, “Spo- ken from the Heart.” Catch an early lunch and return to the same tent afterward where Wash- ington Post staff writer Wil Haygood (History & Biography at 12:20 p.m.) will appear. Haygood’s most recent book is “Sweet Thunder,” a biography of Sugar Ray Robinson, a prizefighter set apart from most practitioners of that sport by his flair for dressing styl- ishly and his friendships with the greats of jazz.
theme worth exploring at the
National Book Festival is Amer- ican Lives, which will have you
11:10 A.M. 3 NELL IRVIN PAINTER Nell Irvin Painter is the Edwards Pro- fessor of American History emerita at Princeton University, where she was di- rector of African American Studies from 1997 to 2000. Her books include “Creating Black Americans,” “Southern History Across the Color Line” and, most recently, “The History of White People.” Signing 1 p.m.
11:45 A.M. 4 DAVID E. HOFFMAN David E. Hoffman has served The Washington Post as White House corre- spondent, diplomatic correspondent, Moscow bureau chief and assistant managing editor for foreign news. His first book, based on reporting in Mos- cow, was “The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia.” His most re- cent work, “The Dead Hand: The Un- told Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy,” won the Pulitzer Prize. Signing 1:30 p.m.
12:20 P.M. 5 WIL HAYGOOD Wil Haygood is a Washington Post staff writer and an acclaimed biographer. His “In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr.” won the Zora Neale Hurston-Richard Wright Legacy Award, the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and was named nonfiction book of the year by the Black Caucus of the American Li- brary Association. “King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.” was named a New York Times Notable Book. His family mem- oir, “The Haygoods of Columbus,” re- ceived the Great Lakes Book Award. He has been an Alicia Patterson fellow and, for his newspaper work, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. His new book is “Sweet Thun- der: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson.” Signing 2:30 p.m.
12:55 P.M. 6 ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDER Adele Logan Alexander’s research and teaching incorporate the black Atlantic world, African American history, family history, gender issues, and military and social history. She is an adjunct profes- sor of history at George Washington University. Her latest book is “Parallel Worlds: The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the Enduring (In)Significance of Race.” Signing 11:30 a.m.
Directly following comes legendary
cartoonist, playwright and children’s writer Jules Feiffer (Contemporary Life at 12:55 p.m.). His new book, “Backing Into Forward,” is a memoir of how a kid from the Bronx transformed a knack for drawing into an ability to capture in visual terms the zeitgeist of his age: roughly the second half of the 20th century. (Feiffer will also appear with Norton Juster at 11:50 a.m. in Children to discuss their new book, “The Odious Ogre.”) Later James McGrath Morris (His-
tory & Biography at 2:40 p.m.) will talk about “Pulitzer,” his biography of the man whose genius for giving people what they wanted resulted in the mod- ern American newspaper. In an age when the newspaper business is under siege from the Internet and the audi- ence for news and information is frag- menting, Morris’s book takes you back to a time when newspapers dominated the national consciousness, stole one another’s best writers and cartoonists, and were powerful enough to foment wars.
— Dennis Drabelle
drabelled@washpost.com
1:30 P.M. 7 EVAN THOMAS Evan Thomas is the author of seven works of nonfiction: “Sea of Thunder,” “John Paul Jones,” “Robert Kennedy,” “The Very Best Men,” “The Man to See,” “The Wise Men” and his latest, “The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst and the Rush to Empire.” He lives in Washington, D.C. Signing 3 p.m.
2:05 P.M. 8 TIMOTHY EGAN Timothy Egan has worked for the New York Times for 18 years — as Pacific Northwest correspondent and as a na- tional enterprise reporter. In 2001 he was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that wrote the series “How Race Is Lived in America.” He is the author of several books, including “The Worst Hard Time,” a history of the Dust Bowl, for which he won the National Book Award, and, most recently, “The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America.” Signing 3 p.m.
2:40 P.M. 9 JAMES MCGRATH MORRIS James McGrath Morris spent five years working on his latest work, “Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power.” His previous book, “The Rose Man of Sing
Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Jour- nalism,” was named one of the best books of 2004 by The Washington Post. Signing 3:30 p.m.
3:15 P.M. 10 STEVEN V. ROBERTS Steven V. Roberts is the author of “My Fathers’ Houses” and co-author of “From This Day Forward.” He has worked as a journalist for more than 40 years, including positions at U.S. News &World Report and the New York Times, where he was a bureau chief in Los Angeles and Athens and a corre- spondent for Congress and the White House. Since 1997 he has been the Sha- piro Professor of Media and Public Af- fairs at George Washington University. His new book is “From Every End of This Earth: 13 Families and the Lives They Made in America.” Roberts will be interviewed by his wife, Cokie Roberts. Signing 1 p.m.
3:50 P.M.
11 RICHARD HOLMES Richard Holmes’s first book, “Shelley: The Pursuit,” won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1974. “Coleridge: Early Visions” won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year, and “Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage” won the James Tait Black Prize. “Coleridge: Darker Reflections” won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Hei- nemann Award. His most recent book is “The Age of Wonder: How the Ro- mantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and the Terror of Science.” Sign- ing 2 p.m.
4:25 P.M. 12 STACY SCHIFF Stacy Schiff is the author of “Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov),” which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography, and “Saint-Exupéry: A Biography,” which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. Schiff ’s “A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of Amer- ica” won the 2006 George Washington Book Prize, the Ambassador Award in American Studies and the Gilbert Chi- nard Prize of the Institut Français. Her next book is “Cleopatra,” which comes out in November. Signing 1:30 p.m.
5P.M. 13 DAVID REMNICK David Remnick is the editor of the New Yorker. Previously, he was a staff writer at The Washington Post, where he cov- ered a variety of beats, including four years as a correspondent in Moscow. His book “Lenin’s Tomb” is an account of the unraveling of the Soviet empire. His most recent book is “The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.” Signing 11:30 a.m.
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