This premier book festival and exciting literary event in Easton, Pennsylvania has everything a literary fan could want—an array of national literary stars and emerging authors who will present their work and sign copies of their books in your favorite venues in Easton.
Interact with the authors, celebrities, and content creators that influence the way we think and how we view our world.
Immerse yourself in Q&As with the creators of story in all its forms. Enjoy meet-and-greets, autographing sessions, book signings, storytelling, literary lectures, puppet shows, plays, and so much more.
Sigal Museum and the 1753 Bachmann Publick House will host events and authors during this ultimate celebration of books. See the weekend schedule below:
SATURDAY, October 26
Bachmann Publick House, 169 Northampton Street
11:00 – Rebecca Price Janney and the Bachmann Players, historical re-enactment, Easton at the Crossroads
12:30 – Maryann McFadden, The Cemetery Keeper’s Wife
Sigal Museum Auditorium
10:30 – “Responsible Journalism in the Age of Fake News,” with Bill Dedman, Sander Hicks, Nancy Werteen, and moderated by Melba Tolliver
12:00 – “Immigrants and Refugees – The American Experience,” with Michele Carlo, Benjamin Franklin (actor Christopher Black), Shalom Neuman, Thanhha Lai, and Carlo Quispe, and moderated by Kevin Pyle
1:30 – “Poets as Prophets-Merging Art and Religion,” with Eric Ziolkowski, Lee Upton, Steve Wiggins, Bob Watts, and Yolanda Wisher, and moderated by Chris Phillips
3:00 – “Researching the Historical Novel,” with Lisa Gornick, Sally Koslow, Maryann McFadden, Carol Weston, Susan Holloway Scott, and Kris Waldherr, and moderated by Mary Dearborn
4:30 – “Historical Fiction with Strong Women,” with LA Chandler, Andrea Penrose, and Rosemary Simpson
Sigal Museum Chrin Gallery
Biography, History, Memoir and Politics
10:00 – Keena Roberts, Wild Life, reading
11:00 – Donald Miller, Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy reading
12:00 – Bill Dedman, Empty Mansions, reading
1:00 – Mary Dearborn, Ernest Hemingway: A Biography, reading
2:00 – Sander Hicks, Slingshot to the Juggernaut: Total Resistance to the Death Machine Means Complete Love of Truth, in conversation with Andy Laties (Activist investigative reporter reaches for a broader understanding of who was behind the 9/11 attacks)
3:00 – Eric Laursen, The Duty to Stand Aside, in conversation with Caroline Lee (Should an Englishman fight Hitler during World War II? Alex Comfort and George Orwell disagreed.)
4:00 – Charles W. Dickerson, Bush-Dickerson Family 1066-1990 (Family genealogy! The Bush-Dickersons from the Norman invasion to today.)
5:00 – David Colley, Seeing the War, reading (A exploration of more than a hundred of the most revealing photographs of World War II)
Sigal Museum Decorative Arts Gallery
Historical Fiction
10:30 – Sally Koslow, Another Side of Paradise, in conversation with Mary Dearborn
11:30 – Kris Waldherr, The Lost History of Dreams, in conversation with James Charlesworth
12:30 – Rosemary Simpson, Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets, reading
1:30 – Susan Holloway Scott, The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr, reading
2:30 – Andrea Penrose, Murder at Kensington Palace, talk on “The Art of Writing Mystery Novels set in Regency England”
3:30 – L.A. Chandlar, The Pearl Dagger, reading
4:30 – Lisa Gornick, The Peacock Feast, in conversation with Lee Upton
SUNDAY, October 27
Sigal Museum Auditorium
Panel Discussions
1:00 – “The Mueller Report and Truths Stranger Than Fiction,” with Peter Coyne, Diane Fleming, Andy Laties, Regina Marinelli, and moderated by Melba Tolliver
2:00 – “Pacifism and Patriotism,” with David P. Colley, Eric Laursen, and moderated by Caroline Lee
Sigal Museum Chrin Gallery
Religion and Culture
12:00 – Eric Ziolkowski, The Literary Kierkegaard
1:00 – Steve Wiggins, Holy Horror: The Bible and Fear in Movies, reading
2:00 – Brett Hendrickson, The Healing Power of the Santuario de Chimayo