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National Book Festival

The National Book Festival is an annual literary festival held in Washington, D.C. in the United States; it is organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, and was founded by Laura Bush and James H. Billington in 2001.

Background[edit]

In 1995, the First Lady of Texas Laura Bush (a librarian) founded the Texas Book Festival with Mary Margaret Farabee and support of Robert S. Martin, then Director and Librarian of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and other volunteers.[1] The goal of the festival was to honor Texas authors, promote the joys of reading, and benefit the state's public libraries.[1] The first Texas Book Festival took place in November 1996.[1]

Great Reads from Great Places[edit]

Every year since 2002, the Library Affiliates [17] each choose a book to celebrate at the Book Festival in the Library’s Roadmap to Reading. [18] Lists of "Great Reads from Great Places" since 2002 are available at the Center for the Book website. [19]

Lu Ann Barrow (2001)

Carol Dyer (2002)

Joey Manlapaz (2003)

Floyd Cooper (2004)

(2005)

Jerry Pinkney

(2006)

Gennady Spirin

(2007)

Mercer Mayer

(2008)

Jan Brett

(2009)

Charles Santore

Peter Ferguson (2010)

(2011)

Jon J Muth

(2012)

Rafael López

(2013)

Suzy Lee

(2014)

Bob Staake

(2015)

Peter de Sève

(2016)

Yuko Shimizu

(2017)

Roz Chast

(2018)

Gaby D'Alessandro

(2019)

Marian Bantjes

Each year the Festival commissions an artist to design an event poster.

Books in the United States

official site

National Book Festival

National Book Festival poster gallery

(Bush White House archive)

The National Book Festival: 2001–2008