Actor Elliot Page is among the headliners of this year’s Library of Congress National Book Festival.
Page, whose memoir Pageboy was published Tuesday, will discuss his book at the event, which is scheduled for Aug. 12 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Other memoirists scheduled to appear at the festival include NPR journalists Mary Louise Kelly (It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs) and Ari Shapiro (The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening).
Among the fiction writers who will read at the event are George Saunders (Liberation Day), Amor Towles (The Lincoln Highway), Elizabeth Acevedo (Family Lore), and S.A. Cosby (All the Sinners Bleed).
Novelist Rebecca Makkai (I Have Some Questions for You) will be in conversation with nonfiction writer and editor Sarah Weinman (Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning), while authors Henry Hoke (Open Throat) and Shelby Van Pelt (Remarkably Bright Creatures) will discuss their animal-centered fiction.
Other authors appearing at the festival include Matthew Desmond (Poverty, by America), Katherine Applegate (The One and Only Ruby), Grace Lin (Once Upon a Book), Esmeralda Santiago (Las Madres), and Luis Alberto Urrea (Good Night, Irene).
The festival is free, and does not require tickets. The full lineup is available on the Library of Congress website.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
