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Notice: The 2020 National Book Festival Continues! Visit the Virtual Festival Platform External now to replay author presentations and access activities

2020 National Book Festival

Welcome to the 2020 National Book Festival

Visit the Virtual Festival Platform now for engaging author presentations, activities & more!

The 20th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival celebrates American Ingenuity with more than 120 celebrated authors featured in presentation videos available on demand for a limited time. Access the Virtual Festival Platform External, then stream the culminating PBS television special External for an engaging, immersive experience.

News from the Festival

Visit the Virtual Festival Platform External Dozens of presentations, authors, videos, engaging activities and more await you through the weekend and beyond.
Stream PBS National Book Festival Special External Watch the inspiring program “Celebrating American Ingenuity” hosted by Hoda Kotb. Available on pbs.org for a limited time.
National Book Festival Presents Experience the Festival all year long with National Book Festival Presents, a series featuring outstanding authors, books and related Library treasures.

Featured Authors

Replay presentations by the many best-selling authors, novelists, historians, poets and children's writers featured in the 2020 Festival.

Colson Whitehead
Sandra Cisneros
Jason Reynolds
Amy Tan
John Grisham
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Highlights from Past Festivals

José Andrés: 2019 National Book Festival
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 2019 National Book Festival
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: 2019 National Book Festival
Cece Bell: 2019 National Book Festival
David McCullough: 2019 National Book Festival
Poetry of Place: 2019 National Book Festival
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