
2010
The tenth National Book Festival once again will bring the nation’s best authors and illustrators to Washington to discuss their work and meet their fans. This year’s lineup has something for everyone.
Children
- Mary Brigid Barrett
- Timothy Basil Ering
- Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Jules Feiffer
- Mem Fox
- Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Norton Juster
- Pat Mora
- Marilyn Nelson
- Linda Sue Park
- Jerry Pinkney
- James Ransome
- Judith Viorst
- Rosemary Wells
Contemporary Life
- Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
- Gurcharan Das
- Ree Drummond
- Jules Feiffer
- Bruce Feiler
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Spike Mendelsohn
- Michele Norris
- Henry Petroski
- Richard Rhodes
- Craig Robinson
- Harold Varmus
- Edward O. Wilson
Festival Artist
Fiction & Mystery
- Isabel Allende
- Ken Follett
- Diana Gabaldon
- Julia Glass
- Martha Grimes
- Olga Grushin
- Elizabeth Kostova
- Anchee Min
- Karin Slaughter
- Scott Spencer
- Peter Straub
- Scott Turow
History & Biography
- Adele Logan Alexander
- Timothy Egan
- Wil Haygood
- David E. Hoffman
- Richard Holmes
- James McGrath Morris
- Nell Irvin Painter
- David Remnick
- Steven V. Roberts
- Stacy Schiff
- Evan Thomas
- Gordon S. Wood
Poetry & Prose
- Elizabeth Alexander
- Rae Armantrout
- Jonathan Franzen
- Gail Godwin
- Allegra Goodman
- Chang-rae Lee
- Thomas Mallon
- Orhan Pamuk
- Jane Smiley
- Natasha Trethewey
