Meet the Authors

The Author Announcements have begun!

Check back regularly for author announcements for the 2023 SBF! “Book-It Tuesdays” begin Tuesday, November 1st.  Each Tuesday we will announce five of the exciting authors presenting on Festival Saturday, February 18.  

2023 SBF COUNTDOWN:

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Festival Authors

Jon Hilsenrath

Yellen : The Trailblazing Economist Who Navigated an Era of Upheaval

Jenn Lyons

The Discord of Gods

Roseanne Montillo

Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, The Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

Carolyn Prusa

None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

Patricia Schultz

Why We Travel: 100 Reasons to See the World

Marcel Theroux

The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

David Ambroz

A Place Called Home

Louis Bayard

Jackie & Me

T.C. Boyle

I Walk Between the Raindrops

Ali Brady

The Beach Trap

Jack Du Brul

Clive Cussler: The Sea Wolves

Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion & Battle That Defined WW2

Paul Doiron

Hatchet Island

Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden

The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime

Benjamin Gilmer

The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice

Chloe Gong

Foul Lady Fortune

George Dawes Green

The Kingdoms of Savannah: A Novel

Andrew Sean Greer

Less Is Lost

Katie Gutierrez

More Than You'll Ever Know

C.J. Hauser

The Crane Wife

Alexandra Horowitz

The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves

Patrick Radden Keefe

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Nina LaCour

Yerba Buena

Joe Maddon and Tom Verducci

The Book of Joe: Trying Not to Suck at Baseball and Life

Sara Novic

True Biz

David Quammen

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat A Deadly Virus

John Scalzi

The Kaiju Preservation Society

Stacy Schiff

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Amanda Eyre Ward

The Lifeguards

Marianne Wiggins

Properties of Thirst

Ilyon Woo

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey

David Yoon

City of Orange

Interested in Previous Headliners?

You can watch recordings of past SBF headliners by clicking on the authors below:

2020 Savannah Book Festival

Joseph Kanon
John Grisham
John Becker and Megan Scott

2019 Savannah Book Festival

Daniel Krauthammer
George and Paula Saunders
Sara Vincent and Lynn Vladic
Chris Stirewalt

2018 Savannah Book Festival

Diana Gabaldon
Lisa Ko
Jodi Picoult

2017 Savannah Book Festival

James Patterson
Colson Whitehead
Christina Baker Kline

 

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