SBF Announces Opening and Closing Address Authors for 2019 Festival
We are delighted to announce that George Saunders, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and his debut novelist wife, Paula Saunders, will present our Opening Address on Thursday, February 14 at the Historic Lucas Theatre for the Arts. Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic, authors of the bestselling Indianapolis, will present our Closing Address on Sunday, February 17. For details, please go to our Events page.
Tickets for our headline author addresses will go on sale on Thursday, January 10 at 10 a.m.
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We're happy to be able to host the Children's Book Festival at our 2019 festival. The Children's portion of the weekend will be featured on Sunday, Feb 17, from 1 to 3 p.m.
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Live Oak Public Libraries will hold a children’s event at the Savannah Book Festival in February, the organizations said.At a meeting Tuesday
Wonderful news! I was so sad to hear it wasn't happening this year. Thank you!!
Brilliant!
Looking forward to it!
This is an outstanding partnership. Both organizations share similar goals. The SBF is enthusiastic about its ability to help out its sister organization!
Beautiful news!
Karey Burgstiner Lee SO happy to see/hear this!!!
Can't wait!
DeAnne Warnekros !!!!
A taste of Thursday trivia for you: one of our authors we'll be announcing this Tuesday may write for the New York Times, but his work is deeply rooted in the south. The title of his book says it all.
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