“Festival Saturday”

Saturday, February 13th thru Sunday, February 28th

In honor of our 14 year tradition of bring authors to the community on our free Festival Saturday, SBF is pleased to provide free access to the 2020 ticketed headliners who have participated in our 2021 virtual festival.

  • To view these sessions, simply click on the links below.
  • No registration is required, you will be taken to the event page and simply click the triangle on the video to play.

Thank you for supporting the Savannah Book Festival. We hope to be together, face-to-face, for the 2022 Savannah Book Festival next February.

2020 Headliners from the 2021 Virtual Festival

Brad Thor author of Near Dark

Click here to view Brad’s session:

Brad Thor

 

Sandra Brown author of Thick as Thieves

Click here to view Sandra’s session:

Sandra Brown

 

Dave Barry author of  Lessons from Lucy

Click here to view Dave’s session:

Dave Barry

 

Michael Connolly author of The Law of Innocence

Click here to view Michael’s session:

Michael Connelly

 

John Connelly author of The Dirty South and James Lee Burke author of A Private Cathedral

Click here to view John and James’s session:

Connolly and Burke

 

 

 

Past Headliners

Headliners from previous festivals are also available for free viewing.  Click the links below to take you to their presentations.

 

2020 Savannah Book Festival

 

Joseph Kanon author of The Accomplice.

Click here:

Joseph Kanon

 

 

John Grisham author of The Guardians.

Click here:

John Grisham

 

John Becker and Megan Scott The Joy of Cooking. 

Click here:

Becker and Scott

 

2019 Savannah Book Festival

 

 

Daniel Krauthammer editor for his Father’s book The Point of it All.

Click here:

Daniel Krauthammer

 

 

George Saunders author of Fox 8 and Paula Sanders author or The Distance Home

Click here:

George and Paula Saunders

 

Sara Vincent and Lynn Vladic authors of Indianapolis

Click here:

Vladic and Vincent

Chris Stirewalt author of Every Man a King.

Click here:

Chris Stirewalt

 

2018 Savannah Book Festival

 

Diana Gabaldon author of Outlander.

Click here:

Diana Gabaldon

 

Lisa Ko author of The Leavers.

Click here:

Lisa Ko

 

Jodi Picoult author of Small Great Things.

Click here:

Jodi Picoult

 

2017 Savannah Book Festival

 

 

James Patterson

Click here:  James Patterson

Colson Whitehead

Click here: Colson Whitehead

 

Christina Baker Kline

Click here:  Christina Baker Kline 

 

Previous Festival Saturday Authors

A limited number of Festival Saturday authors from previous festivals are available for free viewing by clicking on the links below.

2020 Festival Saturday Authors

               

Michele Sullivan author of Looking Up

Click here:

Michelle Sullivan

Jaquira Diaz author of Ordinary Girls.

Click here:

Jaquira Diaz

 

Edward Larson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Franklin and Washington.

Click here:

Edward Larson

Ken Garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth authors of The Last Negroes at Harvard. 

Click here:  Garrett and Ellsworth

Robert Wilson author of Barnum. 

Click here:  Robert Wilson

Robert Bilott author of Exposure. 

Click here:  Robert Bilott

 

                 

Amy Shira Teitel author of Fighting for Space

Click here:  Amy Shira Teitel

 
 

2019 Festival Saturday Authors

 

Larry Loftis author of Code Name – Lise

Click here:  Larry Loftis

William Knoedelseder author of Fins  

Click here:  William Knoedelseder

Charles Graeber author of The Breakthrough.

Click here:  Charles Graeber

Chris Stirewalt author of Every Man a King.

Click here:  Chris Stirewalt

Dan Hampton author of Chasing the Demon.

Click here:  Dan Hampton

Alec Nevala-Lee author of Astounding.

Click here:  Alec Nevala-Lee

 

David Edwards author of Creating Things That Matter.

Click here:  David Edwards

 
 

2018 Festival Saturday Authors

 

Brian Curtis author of Fields of Battle.

Click here:  Brian Curtis

David Enrich author of The Spider Network.

Click here:  David Enrich

Retired Air Force Major General Robert Latiff author of Future War.

Click here:  Robert Latiff

Ben Blum author of Ranger Games.

Click here:  Ben Blum

Celeste Headlee author of We Need to Talk.

Click here:  Celeste Headlee

Scott Shapiro author of The Internationalists.

Click here:  Scott Shapiro

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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