“It’s coming closer every day… The Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books (GPFB), will be taking place LIVE (pending COVID status) on May 14, 2022, in various indoor and outdoor venues in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood!
The Festival will celebrate Pittsburgh’s vibrant literary history while showcasing this modern city’s vital role on the national and international literary stage. With free, diverse programming featuring both local and national acclaimed authors across age groups and genres, the Festival will offer opportunities for readers, writers, booksellers, publishers, educators, families and others to connect with, learn from, and support one another and our communities.
We are pleased to provide this monthly update on the Festival. Each month the GPFB newsletter will highlight relevant Festival news and information, updates on participating authors, and other relevant Festival information, to keep you apprised and excited!! Please sign up to receive our newsletter and share with others.”
GPFB Newsletter
“We are engaging some wonderful and exciting authors to participate at the Festival. Here’s a quick look at three great Pittsburgh literary giants to start. Many more authors are being engaged and will be announced over the next several months.
Taylor Allderdice graduate and National Book Award-winning historian: Nathaniel Philbrick – Nathaniel Philbrick’s first nationally published book is entitled In the Heart of the Seas, in 2000, and he is now one of the country’s best-selling historians. Philbrick will discuss his 12th book, Travels with George, a step-by-step account of the first President’s journeys around the new United States. Click here for book purchase information.
National poetry award winner and Pittsburgh’s own: Toi Derricotte – Congratulations to Toi Derricotte, winner of the Academy of American Poetry Prize, the 2021 Wallace Stevens Award for her “proven mastery in the art of poetry.” Ms. Derricotte is professor emerita of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She will be one of the GPFB keynote speakers at the Festival on May 14, 2022. You can read more about her here!
Fred Rogers’ biographer Max King and his new book on John Kane – Max’s leadership at the Pittsburgh Foundation and the Heinz Endowment have placed him among the region’s top cultural leaders. But it’s his accomplishments as a writer that brings King to the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books. Following his best-selling biography of Fred Rogers, The Good Neighbor, his next book, American Workman: The Life and Art of John Kane will be published in March. At the Festival, Max will talk about John Kane and will be join by Louise Lippincott, retired CMOA curator, as she presents Kane’s art.”
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