We’re a Community Partner
for the 2024 History Book Festival
Join us September 27, 28, and 29, in Lewes, for the 2024 History Book Festival. Discover a broad range of historical fiction and narrative nonfiction by both well-known and emerging authors. Scroll down to learn more.
KEYNOTE EVENT Friday 9/27 | 7 PM
Ticketed Keynote Event with Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name (Ballantine Books, 2024). She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 29 novels that have been translated into 34 languages with many being adapted for the screen. Picoult will be in conversation with Alicia Andrzejewski, who is an assistant professor of English at the College of William & Mary and worked with Picoult on the research for this novel.
The Keynote Event is funded through the generous support of Sally Mott Freeman and John K. Freeman.
Tickets to the Keynote event are sold out. In the coming weeks we will be announcing a special author event for Monday, September 30. In order to get pre-sale notice for this event, be sure to sign up for the History Book Festival enews.
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CLOSING EVENT Sunday 9/29 | 2:30 PM
Ticketed Closing Event with Tiya Miles, author of Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People (Penguin Press, 2024). She is the Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University; author of the National Book Award-winning All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake; a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship recipient; and a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Miles will be in conversation with Linda D. Harris, who leads programming for the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center in Cambridge, MD. Harris will open the event with a presentation of Underground Railroad “code songs,” accompanied by her husband, David B. Cole.
A reservation is required to attend this event. Each reservation includes one general admission seat and a signed, hardback copy of Night Flyer. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the History Book Festival, helping to provide free literary programming for people of all ages. Please note that reservations are limited.
The Closing Event is funded through the generous support of Griswold Home Care for Sussex & Kent Counties and presented in partnership with the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center, and the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice (SDARJ).
