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Obamas to Host 10th Annual National Book Festival
National Book Festival Celebrates a Decade of Words and Wonder
The 10th annual National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, will be held on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 3rd and 7th streets from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The festival, a celebration of the joy of reading for all ages, is free and open to the public.The stellar lineup for this year's festival will include international best-selling author Ken Follett; Rae Armantrout, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for poetry; National Book Award winner Julia Glass; Pat Mora, one of the nation’s most beloved writers for children; and Elizabeth Kostova, author of the worldwide sensations The Historian and The Swan Thieves. They will be among more than 70 authors now slated to appear. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, the First Lady, will be honorary chairs of the event.
Here's the current list of authors appearing at the Festival.
See a video retrospective on the ten years of the National Book Festival.