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This year brings a powerful array of best-selling authors, poets and commentators from a variety of literary genres.
Just take a look at our keynote speakers and click their names to find out more about them and their festival appearance schedule.
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is the author of The Satanic Verses,
which was deemed sacrilegious by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeni and in 1989 prompted Rushdie to go into hiding for nine years. Other novels
include Midnight's Children, The Moor's Last Sigh and The Ground Beneath Her Feet. Rushdie will read from his most
recent book, Step Across This Line: Collected Non-Fiction, 1992-2002, at his festival appearance.
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is an author, playwright, satirical commentator
for National Public Radio and retired Macy's elf. In his latest book, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, he covers everything
from attending his brother's wedding to selling drinks at a state fair. The author of bestsellers Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice,
Sedaris has also published collections of personal essays Naked and Me Talk Pretty One Day. His essays appear regularly in
Esquire and The New Yorker.
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has earned dozens of awards over the span of his
30-year career with National Public Radio (NPR). This legendary broadcast journalist will talk about his career and new book, Edward R. Murrow
and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism at his festival appearance. Host of NPR's Morning Edition for 25 years, Edwards helped make the show
the most-listened-to program in public radio, attracting more than 13 million listeners each week.
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served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995,
the youngest person and the first African-American to receive this highest official honor of American letters. The Pulitzer-prize winning poet will
talk about her life and read from her latest book of poems, American Smooth, during her festival appearance. Dove has also published short
stories, novels, poetry collections, is a playwright and received the 2001 Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award.
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is a legendary poet and international bestseller.
His works include Iron John: A Book About Men and Morning Poems, a collection of poems that revisits the western Minnesota
farm country of Bly's boyhood with marvelous wit and warmth. Bly will read from a collection of his work spanning more than 40 years,
during his festival appearance. His recent books include What Have I Ever Lost by Dying? Collected Prose Poems, Meditations on the
Insatiable Soul and Eating the Honey of Words.
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