2010 National Book Festival Podcast

Ken Follett is one of the best-selling novelists in the world, having sold more than 100 million copies of his books. He became an instant sensation with his first novel, 1978’s “Eye of the N...

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Jane Smiley is the author of several critically acclaimed and popular novels, including “The Age of God,” “The Greenlanders,” “Ordinary Love and Good Will,” “A Thousand Acres” (wi...

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Anchee Min was born in Shanghai during the rule of communist leader Mao Zedong. She was chosen to become a leader of the Little Red Guards, a group of elementary school children who supported Mao...

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Judith Viorst is the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction for children as well as adults. “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” her most famous children'...

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Rae Armantrout is the 2010 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for “Versed” (Wesleyan Poetry Press), which the Pulitzer committee cited as “a book striking for its wit and linguistic in...

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A literacy advocate excited about sharing what she calls “bookjoy,” Pat Mora founded the family literacy initiative El día de los niños/El día de los libros, Children's Day/Book Day, now h...

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Isabel Allende is a best-selling Chilean-American writer who was born in Lima, where her father, Tomás Allende, was Chile’s ambassador to Peru. Her uncle was Chilean President Salvador Allende...

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