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EZthe washington post
wednesday, august28
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2019
MAIN STAGE
PHOTO BY NIKKI KAHN/THE WASHINGTON POST10-11: Library of Congress Prize for
American Fiction. Richard Ford, a
novelist and short-story writer, is the
recipient of the 2019 Library of
Congress Prize for American Fiction.
He is the author of the Bascombe
novels, which include “The
Sportswriter” and its sequels,
“Independence Day” (the first novel
to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the
PEN/Faulkner Award), “The Lay of
the Land” and “Let Me Be Frank With
You: A Frank Bascombe Book” , a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His other
works include the novel “Canada”
and the short-story collections “Rock
Springs” and “A Multitude of Sins,”
which contain many widely
anthologized stories. His memoir
“Between Them: Remembering My
Parents” was published in 2017.
Signing 11:30-12:30.
1-2: José Andrés is a Michelin-
starred, James Beard Foundation
Award-winning chef. He is the
founder and chairman of World
Central Kitchen, the
nongovernmental organization
behind #ChefsForPuertoRico, and
co-founder of the Washington-based
ThinkFoodGroup, which has more
than 30 restaurants around the
world. He is also the author of three
cookbooks and the best-selling “We
Fed an Island: The True Story of
Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at
a Time.” His latest book is
“Vegetables Unleashed” (Ecco).
Signing 2:30-3:30.
2:30-3:30: David Brooks is an op-
ed columnist for the New York Times
and appears regularly on “PBS
NewsHour” and “Meet the Press.”
He has also written for the Wall
Street Journal, the Weekly Standard,
Newsweek and the Atlantic. Brooks
is the best-selling author of “The
Road to Character,” “Bobos in
Paradise: The New Upper Class and
How They Got There” and “On
Paradise Drive: How We Live Now
(And Always Have) in the Future
Tense.” He has recently published
“The Second Mountain: The Quest
for a Moral Life” (Random House).
Signing 4:30-5:30.
4-5: Raina Telgemeier, with more
than 15 million books in print, is
one of the most successful graphic
novelists of her generation. She is
the best-selling creator of “Smile”
and “Sisters,” both graphic
memoirs based on her childhood.
“Smile” received the Eisner Award
for Best Publication for Teens, and
“Sisters” received the Eisner Award
for Best Writer/Artist. Telgemeier is
also the creator of “Drama,” a
graphic novel that was named an
American Library Association
Stonewall Honor Book. “Ghosts”
received the 2017 Eisner Award for
Best Publication for Kids.
Telgemeier’s recent book is “Share
Your Smile: Raina’s Guide to Telling
Your Own Story” (Graphix/
Scholastic). Signing 1:30-2:30.
7-8: Michael Beschloss has
served as a historian for the
Smithsonian Institution, a senior
associate member at St. Antony’s
College (Oxford) and a senior fellow
of the Annenberg Foundation. His
first book, “Kennedy and
Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance,”
began as his Williams College
honors thesis. “The Crisis Years:
Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-
1963” was praised by David
Remnick in the New Yorker as the
“definitive” history of John F.
Kennedy and the Cold War.
Beschloss serves as the NBC News
presidential historian and is a
contributor to the “PBS NewsHour.”
His new book is “Presidents of War”
(Crown/Penguin Random House).
Signing 3:30-4:30.
11:30-12:30: Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received a BA from
Cornell University, attended Harvard Law School and received an LLB from Columbia Law
School. She served as a law clerk to Judge Edmund L. Palmieri of the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New York from 1959 to 1961. From 1961 to 1963, she was a
research associate and then associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on
International Procedure, followed by a professorship in law at Rutgers University from
1963 to 1972 and at Columbia Law School from 1972 to 1980. In 1971, she co-founded the
Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and served as the ACLU’s
general counsel from 1973 until 1980. President Bill Clinton nominated her to the
Supreme Court, and she took her seat in 1993. Her most recent book is “My Own Words”
(Simon & Schuster).
WILLIAM B. MCCULLOUGH5:30-6:30: David
McCullough is a two-time
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for
biography, for “Truman” and
“John Adams.” He has twice
received the National Book
Award, for “The Path Between
the Seas” and “Mornings on
Horseback.” His other
acclaimed books include “The
Johnstown Flood,” “1776” and
“The Wright Brothers.” He is
the recipient of numerous
honors and awards, including
the Presidential Medal of
Freedom. His new book is
“The Pioneers: The Heroic
Story of the Settlers Who
Brought the American Ideal
West” (Simon & Schuster).