Brooklyn Book Fest Participants Reflect Borough’s Literary Tradition
Marty Markowitz finally divulged this year’s list of participants in the 4th Annual Brooklyn Book Festival (last year’s coverage here) at Thursday night’s Literary Mingle at Borough Hall. The festival, scheduled for September 13, boasts a list of notable authors and participants that reflects the borough’s talented literary population. Brooklyn The Borough is excited to cover another gathering of Brooklyn’s bookish stars. The full list after the jump.
Confirmed participants include Dorothy Allison (Bastard out of Carolina); Jonathan Ames (The Alcoholic); Paul Auster (Man in the Dark; Travels in the Scriptorium); Russell Banks (Dreaming Up America; The Reserve); poet Staceyann Chin; Edwidge Danticat (Brother, I’m Dying, winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award); Nelson George (City Kid: A Writer’s Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success); A.M. Homes (The Mistress’s Daughter); George Lewis; musician Thurston Moore; Jonathan Lethem (Chronic City, You Don’t Love Me Yet); Achy Obejas (Ruins), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for journalism; Melvin Van Peebles, actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, composer; Francine Prose (Blue Angel, A Changed Man); Sonia Sanchez, poet, playwright; Esmeralda Santiago (When I was Puerto Rican); and Colson Whitehead (Sag Harbor; Apex Hides the Hurt).
The youth and children’s writers include Judi Barrett (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs); Kate DiCamillo (The Tale of Despereaux; Because of Wynn Dixie); Mo Willems (Elephant and Piggie early readers); Sherman Alexie (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, winner of the National Book Award for young people’s literature); Maureen Sullivan and Alison Josephs (Ankle Soup; Custard and Mustard); M.T. Anderson (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing; Traitor to the Nation); and cartoonist Tom Tomorrow (The Very Silly Mayor).
