September 29, 30, and October 1
We’re a Community Partner
for the 2023 History Book Festival
Join us September 29, 30, and October 1, in Lewes, for the 2023 History Book Festival. Discover a broad range of historical fiction and narrative nonfiction by both well-known and emerging authors.
A Special Closing
James McBride is featured in HBF’s Closing Address on Sunday, October 1, at 1 p.m. at Cape Henlopen High School. Tickets are required for this event and can be purchased. Every ticket includes a signed, hardback cover copy of the book.
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Get to know the 6 Black authors the History Book Festival is bringing to Lewes to share their work:
James McBride
James McBride is the author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel (Penguin Random House, 2023), and will be featured in HBF’s Closing Address, which will take place on On Sunday, October 1, at 1 p.m. at Cape Henlopen High School.Tickets are required for this event and can be purchased. Every ticket includes a signed, hardback cover copy of the book.
(photo credit Chia Messina)
(photo credit Chia Messina)
Cheryl Head
Cheryl Head is the author of Time’s Undoing (Dutton, 2023), and will be featured on the second full day of free events at the History Book Festival, September 30, at 2 p.m. at Rollins Community Center.
(photo credit Leigh H. Mosley)
(photo credit Leigh H. Mosley)
Joshunda Sanders
Joshunda Sanders is the author of Women of the Post (Park Row, 2023), and will be featured on the second full day of free events at the History Book Festival, September 30, at 9 a.m. at Lewes Public Library.
(photo credit Julian Budge)
(photo credit Julian Budge)
Traci N. Todd
Traci N. Todd is the author of children’s book Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes (Orchard Books, 2023), and will be featured in the children’s author panel on the second full day of free events at the History Book Festival, September 30, at 10:30 a.m. at Lewes Public Library.
Kidada E. Williams
Kidada E. Williams is the author of I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction (Bloomsbury, 2023), and will be featured on the second day of the History Book Festival, September 30, at 12:30 p.m. at Rollins Community Center.
(photo credit Navy B. Rae Photography)
(photo credit Navy B. Rae Photography)
Jasmine Brown
Jasmine Brown is the author of Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century (Beacon Press, 2023), and will be featured on the second day of the History Book Festival, September 30, at 10:30 a.m. at Lewes Public Library.
(photo credit Marcy Brown)
(photo credit Marcy Brown)
