Speakers - Boston Book Festival 2020

Boston Book Festival 2020

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