Let’s look back at the 2022 Festival!
Highlights from the 2022 Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books.
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2022 Festival Programming
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Sophie: The Incomparable Mayor Masloff. Barbara Burstin
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness. Katie Booth.
American Workman: The Life and Art of John Kane. Maxwell King and Louise Lippincott
CHILDREN’S AUTHOR
CENSORED: Children’s Books in the 21st Century. Jonah Winter
COMICS
CHUTZ-POW!
CREATIVE NONFICTION
My Last Eight-Thousand Days. Lee Gutkind
ENVIRONMENT
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America. Eliza Griswold
Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia. Kris Maher
FICTION
The Heiress of Pittsburgh. Ken Gormley
Mercy Street. Jennifer Haigh
Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash: A Novel. Tammy Pasterick
HISTORY
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy. Nathaniel Philbrick
The Mount Washington Transit Tunnel Disaster. Mary-Jane Kuffner Hirt
Isaly’s Chipped Ham, Klondikes & Other Tales From Behind the Counter. Brian Butko
Highlights from the Italian American Collection. Melissa E. Marinaro
JAZZ
The Blues Walked In: A Novel. Kathleen George
Mary Lou Williams: Music for the Soul. Deanna Witkowski
LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
Anouar Rahmani
Jorge Olivera Castillo
RaMa
Tuhin Das
MEMOIR
American Bastard. Jan Beatty
Instability in Six Colors. Rachel Kallem Whitman, M.S.Ed., Ed.D.
Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place. Neema Avashia
MYSTERY
One Last Chance. Jeffrey Siger
NON-FICTION
When You Wonder, You’re Learning: Mister Rogers’ Enduring Lessons for Raising Creative, Curious, Caring Kids. Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski
Two Sides, Three Rivers. Sharon Dilworth
POETRY
Vertical Bridges. Paola Corso
SPECULATIVE FICTION
The Illness Lesson. Clare Beams
Ocean State. Stewart O’Nan
The Gone World. Tom Sweterlitsch
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POETRY ALLOWED TENT at BAKERY SQUARE
Madwomen in the Attic- 10:00am
Soledad Caballero- 11:00am
Robert Walicki- 11:15am
Lori Jakiela- 11:30am
Angele Ellis & Don Wentworth- 11:45am
Toi Derricotte, Danielle Orbisie-Orlu & Celeste Gainey- 1:00pm
Cameron Barnett- 1:45pm
Elizabeth Hoover- 2:15pm
Daniel Borzutzky & Michelle Gil-Montero- 2:30pm
Michael Wurster- 3:00pm
Judith R. Robinson- 3:15pm
Lynn Emanuel- 3:45pm
KDKA STAGE at BAKERY SQUARE
Bri Griffith, Bonita Lee Penn, & Veronica Corpuz- 11:00am
Carly Inghram & Aurielle Marie- 1:30pm
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CLP- EAST LIBERTY
The Stalking Seagulls. Michelle Vattula- 10:00am
Baby Goes Beep. Rebecca O’Connell- 10:15am
Black Power Storytime. DS Kinsell- 10:30am
She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman: Deaf-Blind Pioneer. Sally Alexander- 10:45am
Going Down Home with Daddy & Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations. Kelly Starling Lyons- 11:00am
A Thousand White Butterflies. Jessica Betancourt-Perez & Karen Lynn Williams - 11:30am
The Spirit of the Cheetah. Karen Lynn Williams- 11:30am
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CLP- EAST LIBERTY
The Life I’m In. Sharon Flake- 1:00pm
CHUTZ-POW: Authors and Educators Panel - 1:30pm
The Fabled Stables. Jonathan Auxier- 2:00pm
Snow Struck. Nick Courage- 3:00pm