9th Annual Nantucket Book Festival

These authors and more will take center stage at the 2020 Nantucket Book Festival on June 18-21, representing genres spanning fiction, poetry, history, journalism, politics, and memoir. This year the Festival will host 14 New York Times Bestselling Authors, three Pulitzer Prize Winners, two National Book Award Winners, two New England Book Award Winners, two Whiting Award Recipients, a “Read with Jenna” Author, an “Oprah Book Club” Author, a PEN/Faulkner Award Winner, an Indie Champion Award, a National Humanities Medal and Personal Peabody Award, a Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize and 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Grant, a Thom Gunn Award Winner, and a Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The Festival, presented by the Nantucket Book Foundation, brings acclaimed authors from around the world to Nantucket each June; this year those authors include Sarah Broom, Samantha Power, David Rohde, Richard Russo, and Alice Hoffman, as well as local favorites Rob Cocuzzo, Nat Philbrick, Nancy Thayer, Crocker Snow, Skip Finley, and Betsy Tyler.

Book lovers attending the Nantucket Book Festival can enjoy author presentations throughout the day Thursday through Sunday, including a Celebration of Writers at the historic Unitarian Universalist Meeting House. Most events are free and open to the public. Ticketed events include breakfasts and lunches with select authors, Friday dinner at the host hotel White Elephant, and a festive gathering at Cisco Brewers for the authors and their fans.