Meet the Authors

The 2020 Savannah Book Festival line-up is complete!  From a Pulitzer Prize winning author to first time novelist, SBF believes there is something for everyone with this wonderful line-up.  Please spend some time getting to know our authors and their books by clicking on the images below, we are confident you won’t be disappointed.  

Festival Saturday Author events are free and open to the public.  Taking place at different venues downtown surrounding Telfair, Wright and Chippewa Squares.  Seating is limited in some venues so plan your day ahead, arrive early and please note no entry will be allowed once the session has started. 

Headliner Addresses are ticketed events.  Tickets will go on sale to the public on January 13, 2020 at 10:00 am through the Savannah Box Offices.  Tickets prices are $25 for Opening and Closing Address and $30 for Keynote Address.  

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Saturday Authors

André Aciman

Find Me

Jami Attenberg

All This Could Be Yours

Emily Bestler

Editor, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of Emily Bestler Books

Robert Bilott

Exposure

Adrienne Brodeur

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover and Me

Gabriel Bump

Everywhere You Don't Belong

W. Bruce Cameron

A Dog's Promise

Katherine Center

Things You Save in a Fire

Casey Cep

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Brock Clarke

Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?

Jeffrey Colvin

Africaville

Cassandra King Conroy

Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

Jeanine Cummins

American Dirt (Check back for schedule updates)

Jaquira Díaz

Ordinary Girls

Dayton Duncan

Country Music: An Illustrated History

Nathalie Dupree

Nathalie Dupree's Favorite Stories and Recipes

Kimi Eisele

The Lightest Object in the Universe

Jack Fairweather

The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz

Madeline ffitch

Stay and Fight

Zoe Fishman

Invisible as Air

Amaryllis Fox

Life Undercover : Coming of Age in the CIA

Kent Garrett & Jeanne Ellsworth

The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever

James L. Haley

The Devil in Paradise: Captain Putnam in Hawaii

Chris Hauty

Deep State

Angie Kim

Miracle Creek

Holly George-Warren

Janis: Her Life and Music

Jack Goldsmith

In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth

Kristy Woodson Harvey

The Southern Side of Paradise

Edward J. Larson

Franklin & Washington : The Founding Partnership

John McMahon

The Good Detective

Donald L. Miller

Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

Kassandra Montag

After the Flood

Téa Obreht

Inland

Kiley Reid

Such a Fun Age

Roxana Robinson

Dawson's Fall

Cathleen Schine

The Grammarians

Dominic Smith

The Electric Hotel

Michele Sullivan

Looking Up: How a Different Perspective Turns Obstacles into Advantages

Amy Shira Teitel

Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight

Christopher Tilghman

Thomas and Beal in the Midi

Steve Vogel

Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation

Sheila Weller

Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

Beverly Willett

Disassembly Required: A Memoir of Midlife Resurrection

Robert Wilson

Barnum: An American Life

De'Shawn Charles Winslow (Canceled)

In West Mills

SCHEDULE CHANGE: Unfortunately, Therese Anne Fowler had to cancel her appearance at the 2020 Savannah Book Festival.