Let’s look back at the 2022 Festival!

Highlights from the 2022 Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books.


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2022 Festival Programming

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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