The Albany Book Festival is this coming weekend and it also includes a big list of local authors
A reminder that the first Albany Book Festival is this Saturday, September 29 on UAlbany's uptown campus. The lineup is absolutely stacked with prominent authors, from Doris Kearns Goodwin to Walter Moseley to Annette Gordon-Reed to Mark Kurlansky to Michael W. Twitty and many others.
The festival will also be a featuring a big group of local authors -- really big, more than 75 authors from the Capital Region and Upstate New York. The full local author lineup with bios is now on the festival's website. The topics they represent range from fiction to non-fiction, romance to mystery, history to children's stories. You'll probably recognize at least a few of the names.
Also: The new New York State author and poet -- Colson Whitehead and Alicia Ostriker, respectively -- will be inaugurated that Friday night at free public event.
The festival website also now has a schedule for when various authors will be making appearances so you can plan out who you might like to see.
The Albany Book Festival is Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm. And it's free.
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