41st Edition Of Miami Book Fair (Friday, November 22, 2024)
Date: Friday, November 22, 2024
Hours: Hours vary. Please click here to visit Miami Book Fair’s schedule.
Admission: Prices vary by event type.
Location: Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus – Downtown Miami (300 NE Second Ave, Miami, FL 33132)
Over 400+ authors will read from their book in English, Spanish, French & Haitian Kreyol. They will answer questions from the audience and sign autographs, as well as, talk about everything under the sun from politics, romance, art, food, lives lived, and everything in between.
Highlight Talks At Miami Book Fair By Some Of The Most Established Of Thinkers Of Our Day:
Monday, November 18, 2024 – 8:00 PM – Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War. A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Larson is the author of The Splendid and the Vile, which brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult.” (Los Angeles Times).
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 – Sarah Smarsh, Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class, now collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on socioeconomic class in America—featuring a previously unpublished essay and a new introduction. In Bone of the Bone, Sarah Smarsh brings her graceful storytelling and incisive critique to the challenges that define our times—class division, political fissures, gender inequality, environmental crisis, media bias, the rural-urban gulf.
Clarissa Ward, On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist – “On All Fronts takes the reader on a riveting journey of storytelling. . .from Russia to China to Syria, [she] navigate[s] the most intense of human experiences while finding the tools to stay emotional.”—Lynsey Addario, author of It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War. The recipient of multiple Peabody and Murrow awards, Clarissa Ward is a world-renowned conflict reporter. In this strange age of crisis, where there really is no front line, she has moved from one hot zone to the next.
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 8:00 PM – Connie Chung, Connie: A Memoir in conversation with husband Maury Povich. Iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist, Connie Chung delves into her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry. Connie Chung is a pioneer.
Friday, November 22, 2024, 6:00 PM – Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, a gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club with a foreword by David Allen Sibley. Tracking the natural beauty that surrounds us, The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps the passage of time through daily entries, thoughtful questions, and beautiful original sketches.
Miami Book Fair Also Presents:
- Reading Garden: sit, read and chill
- Installation by award winning visual artist, GioVanna Gonzalez
- Soccer field and installation by FIFA
- A full schedule of activities for all ages at Children’s Alley
- Hands on music making, art and book making, science experiments and robotics workshops
- Storytelling, performances, strolling artists and characters, and free books
- A full schedule of music at Off the Shelf performance stage
- Nightly cocktail parties at the Lost Chapter lounge
- A slate of exhibitors selling wares of bringing words to life
- Full food court hosted by Smorgasburg
Miami Book Fair is accessible by MetroBus, MetroRail, and MetroMover. As well as by foot, car, bike and scooter. While in downtown FreeBee is available. There are a lot of parking garages and parking lots around the campus. There is free parking on campus, in building 7, a block sized garage, between NE 1st and 2nd Avenues and between NE 5th & 6th Streets.
Contact Miami Book Fair
Website: www.miamibookfair.com