Meet the Authors

Sponsors and Literati members receive advance notice of Headliner announcements and exclusive access to purchase tickets for Headliner Events before they go on sale to the public. Headliner Event tickets are $30. Sponsors and Literati will be able to purchase tickets on January 2nd, 2025, and tickets for the general public will be available for purchase on January 9th, 2025.

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SBF 2025 COUNTDOWN

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Festival Authors

Liz Moore

The God of the Woods

Susan Rieger

Like Mother, Like Mother

David Wroblewski

Familiaris

Rumaan Alam

Entitlement

Leigh Bardugo

The Familiar

Valerie Bauerlein

The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

Charles Baxter

Blood Test

Rachelle Bergstein

The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

Uché Blackstock, MD

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Keren Blankfeld

Lovers in Auschwitz

Brom

Evil in Me

Denny S. Bryce

The Trial of Mrs. Rhinelander

Chanel Cleeton

The House on Biscayne Bay

Joseph Cox

Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

Sloane Crosley

Grief Is for People

Kevin Fedarko

A Walk in the Park

Cara Giaimo

Atlas Obscura: Wild Life: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Living Wonders

Mark Greaney

Midnight Black

David Greenberg

John Lewis: A Life

Carole Hopson

A Pair of Wings

Jimmie James

Playing from the Rough: A Personal Journey through America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses

Amanda Jones

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Marjan Kamali

The Lion Women of Tehran

Jean Hanff Korelitz

The Sequel

Rob Lalka

The Venture Alchemists: How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power

Daniel M. Lavery

Women's Hotel

Dr. Daniel J. Levitin

I Heard There Was a Chord: Music as Medicine

Claire Lombardo

Same As it Ever Was

Chris Nashawaty

The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982

Joe Posnanski

Why We Love Football : A History in 100 Moments

Melissa Pritchard

Flight of the Wild Swan

Todd Richards & Amy Paige Condon

Roots, Heart, Soul: The Story, Celebration, and Recipes of Afro Cuisine in America

Rainbow Rowell

Slow Dance

Dava Sobel

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

Paul M. Sparrow

Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words With Charles Lindbergh—and the Battle to Save Democracy

Peter Swanson

A Talent for Murder

Tommy Tomlinson

Dogland: Passion, Glory and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

Scott Turow

Presumed Guilty

Fawn Weaver

Love & Whiskey

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