Boston Book Festival 2020 Boston Book Festival 2020

Speakers

BBF 2020 Presenters

George Abraham
Birthright
Arvin Ahmadi
How It All Blew Up
Ayad Akhtar
Homeland Elegies
Paris Alston
Alicia Anstead
Diannely Antigua
Ugly Music
Brad Aronson
HumanKind: Changing the World One Small Act At a Time
Issac J. Bailey
Why Didn't We Riot?
Ashok Banker
I Am Brown
Derrick Barnes
I Am Every Good Thing
Kay Ulanday Barrett
More Than Organs
Quan Barry
We Ride Upon Sticks
Max Bazerman
Better, Not Perfect: A Realist's Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness
Deborah Becker
Merle J. Berger
Conception: A Fertility Doctor's Memoir
John Birdsall
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
Alondra Bobadilla
Boston Youth Poet Laureate
Betsy Bonner
The Book of Atlantis Black
Jared Bowen
Anthony Brooks
Jeffrey Brown
Once Upon a Space-Time!
Vincent Brown
Tacky's Revolt
Pete Buttigieg
Trust: America's Best Chance
Meghna Chakrabarti
Tami Charles
All Because You Matter
Stephen Chbosky
Imaginary Friend
Jason Chin
Your Place in the Universe
Franny Choi
Soft Science
Bryan Collier
All Because You Matter
Jerry Craft
Class Act
Tiffany D. Cross
Say It Loud
Callie Crossley
Andrew S. Curran
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
David Daley
Unrigged
Emily M. Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines
Jennifer De Leon
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From
Noa Denmon
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart
Julia Denos
Star Crossed
Zetta Elliott
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart
Akunna Eneh
Tonya Engel
My Hair Is Magic!
Sophie Escabasse
Witches of Brooklyn
Layne Fargo
They Never Learn
Jelani M. Favors
Shelter in a Time of Storm
Garrett Felber
Those Who Know Don't Say
Nick Flynn
This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire
Rebecca Fox
Helen Fremont
The Escape Artist
Howard Gardner
A Synthesizing Mind
Katherine M. Gehl
The Politics Industry
Dipayan Ghosh
Terms of Disservice: How Silicon Valley Is Destructive by Design
Joel Christian Gill
Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence
Carey Goldberg
Kerri K. Greenidge
Black Radical
Susan Gubernat
Marcella Haddad
Andrea Hairston
Master of Poisons
Tim Hall
Philecia Harris
Alix E. Harrow
The Once and Future Witches
Rebecca Henderson
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
Linda Pizzuti Henry
Eitan Hersh
Politics Is for Power
Joe Hill
Full Throttle
Krysten Hill
How Her Spirit Got Out
Richard Hoffman
Michelle Hoover
Molly Howes
A Good Apology: Four Steps to Make Things Right
S.L. Huang
Burning Roses
Meghan Irons
Kellie Carter Jackson
Force and Freedom
Gordon C. James
I Am Every Good Thing
E. Dolores Johnson
Say I'm Dead
Janae Johnson
Mikel Jollett
Hollywood Park
Rana el Kaliouby
Girl Decoded
J. Kates
Alexander Keyssar
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Peter Kolchinsky
The Great American Drug Deal: A New Prescription for Innovative and Affordable Medicines
Jacob Kramer
Okapi Tale
Mark Kramer
Nicholas D. Kristof
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
Chryl N. Laird
Steadfast Democrats
Francie Latour
Heidi Legg
Asha Lemmie
Fifty Words for Rain
A. David Lewis
Kismet: Man of Fate
Margot Livesey
The Boy in the Field
Jessica Love
Julián at the Wedding
Cagen Luse
Gregory Maguire
A Wild Winter Swan
Megan Margulies
My Captain America
M. L. Marroquin
My Hair Is Magic!
Bridget Marshall
DeRay Mckesson
On the Other Side of Freedom
Darrin M. McMahon
Daven McQueen
The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones
Juana Medina
Juana & Lucas: Big Problemas
Cathryn Mercier
Claire Messud
Kant's Little Prussian Head
Lydia Millet
A Children's Bible
Honor Moore
Our Revolution
Tonya Mosley
Michael Murphy
Justice Is Beauty
Innosanto Nagara
Oh, The Things We're For!
Tanya Nixon-Silberg
Suzanne Nossel
Jenny Offill
Weather
Porsha Olayiwola
i shimmer sometimes, too
Kim Parker
Liz Pichon
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates
Sandhya Prabhat
I Am Brown
Ainissa Ramirez
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
Arun Rath
Guy Raz
How I Built This
Rishi Reddi
Passage West
Justin A. Reynolds
Early Departures
Leah Wright Rigueur
The Loneliness of the Black Republican
Lauren Rizzuto
John Rocco
How We Got to the Moon
Carissa Romain
D. Ruff
Michael J. Sandel
The Tyranny of Merit
Catherine A. Sanderson
Why We Act
Seoul Music
Sejal Shah
This Is One Way to Dance
Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne
Rupa Shenoy
Myriam Sidibe
Brands on a Mission: How to Achieve Social Impact and Business Growth Through Purpose
Fanny Singer
Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories
Anna Solomon
The Book of V.
Amy Spalding
We Used to Be Friends
Debora L. Spar
Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
K-Fai Steele
Okapi Tale
Grace Talusan
The Body Papers
Ben Tarnoff
Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It (FSG Originals x Logic)
Susanne Tedrick
Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators
Amy Traverso
Paul Tremblay
Survivor Song
Natasha Trethewey
Memorial Drive
Dawn Tripp
Bina Venkataraman
Jen Waite
Survival Instincts
Bridgette Wallace
Georgia Webber
Dancing After TEN
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Winter Counts
Moira Weigel
Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It (FSG Originals x Logic)
Oneeka Williams
Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo’s Saturn Surprise
Jim Windolf
Ashley Woodfolk
When You Were Everything
Shannon Wright
Twins
Sheryl WuDunn
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
Katie Yamasaki
Everything Naomi Loved
Sophie Yanow
The Contradictions
Robin Young
Muhammad H. Zaman
Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
Leora Zeitlin