The Wisconsin Book Festival is returning for its Fall Celebration in Madison from Oct. 17–20, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. Organizers announced Thursday that 69 authors are scheduled to present during the 23rd annual event.
Highlights of this year’s celebration include:
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Scientist and public science communicator Leah Elson for her debut work, There are No Stupid Questions … In Science, 7 p.m., Oct. 17;
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Award-winning and New York Times best-selling author Nicola Yoon for One of Our Kind, 6 p.m., Oct. 18;
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American journalist Paola Ramos for Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Right and What It Means for America, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 18;
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Award-winning poet Danez Smith for Bluff, 9 p.m., Oct. 18;
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Gastropod podcast co-host, journalist, and author Nicola Twilley for Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, 10:30 a.m., Oct. 19;
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Barbara McQuade, author of Attack From Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America, 3 p.m., Oct. 19;
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Five-time novelist Rufi Thorpe for Margo’s Got Money Troubles, 6 p.m., Oct. 19;
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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winner Joseph O’Neill for Godwin, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 19;
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Acclaimed globetrotting photographer George Steinmetz for Feed the Planet: A Photographic Journey to the World’s Food, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 19; and
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New York Times best-selling author Lev Grossman for The Bright Sword, 1:30 p.m., Oct. 20.
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All events will take place at Central Library, apart from the Steinmetz talk, to be held instead at Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 S. Livingston St.
Roughly 40 states were represented at last year’s festival. Around 4,700 books were given away by the festival in 2023, supported by its signature sponsor, the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.
