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Gaithersburg Book Festival

Presented by Gaithersburg Book Festival at Gaithersburg City Hall Grounds, Gaithersburg MD

May 20, 2017

A Children’s Village features author presentations, activities, stage performances and storytelling in several languages.

The Gaithersburg Book Festival will feature more than 100 award-winning and best-selling authors in all genres, interactive writing workshops, a Children’s Village, book sales and author signings. Free admission.

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The Gaithersburg Book Festival is an annual celebration of great books and great writing that has made its mark as one of the nation’s top literary events. It takes place Saturday, May 20, 2017, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the grounds of City Hall (31 S. Summit Ave.) in Gaithersburg, Md.

The festival will feature more than 100 best-selling and award-winning authors who will participate in talks, panel discussions and book signings throughout the day. Authors include:

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The festival will feature more than 100 best-selling and award-winning authors who will participate in talks, panel discussions and book signings throughout the day. Authors include:

Fiction

Jami Attenberg
Eleanor Brown
Jade Chang
Alex George
Dominic Smith
Courtney Sullivan

Non-Fiction

Sidney Blumenthal
Peter Cozzens
Kay Redfield Jamison
Beth Macy
Joan Nathan
Juan Williams interviewing Craig Shirley
Dan Zak

Mystery

Laura Lippman
David Swinson

Children’s & Middle Grade

Doreen Cronin
Brian Floca
Kimberly Willis Holt
Tom Lichtenheld
Dave Roman
Sheila Turnage
Salina Yoon

Young Adult

Michelle Knudsen
Meg Medina
Carol Weston

Other festival highlights include exhibiting authors, a Children’s Village, announcement of the high school short story contest winners, literary exhibitors, the Brew & Vine Cafe featuring live entertainment, Friends of the Library used book sale, and onsite new book sales by Politics & Prose. Visitors of all ages also have the opportunity to participate in free interactive, hands-on writing workshops on a variety of topics.

The Gaithersburg Book Festival is presented in partnership with Politics & Prose, The Writer’s Center, Homewood Suites Gaithersburg, Montgomery County Public Libraries, Dawson’s Market, Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce, Rio Washingtonian Center, The Universities at Shady Grove, The Washington Independent Review of Books and Montgomery County Public Schools, with grant support from the Maryland State Arts Council.

Admission, parking and accessible shuttle buses from Shady Grove Metro and Lakeforest Mall are FREE. Sign language interpretation available with advance notification. Email Jenna.Ashman@gaithersburgmd.gov to arrange for sign language interpretation.

www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org.

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