Brooklyn Book Festival returns, with in-person and virtual events
Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels and kids’ Lit
The Brooklyn Book Festival, New York City’s largest free literary festival, is returning from Sept. 25 to Oct. 3 with a combination of in-person and virtual events.
The extensive, inclusive nine-day festival includes both some of today’s most acclaimed authors and emerging voices whose words are propelling literature forward. It offers events throughout Brooklyn as well as a full Virtual Festival Day (Sept. 25), continuing to expand its reach to readers anywhere in the world.
Memoirist-novelist Esmeralda Santiago has been chosen as the recipient of this year’s Best of Brooklyn “BoBi” Award. She is the author of three groundbreaking and critically acclaimed memoirs: When I Was Puerto Rican; Almost a Woman (adapted into a Peabody Award winning movie for PBS Masterpiece Theatre); and The Turkish Lover. Her fiction includes the novels América’s Dream (also made into a movie), and the national best-selling historical novel Conquistadora. Santiago also wrote the illustrated children’s book A Doll for Navidades.