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The eighth annual History Book Festival kicked off on Friday, September 27, with the 2024 Keynote Event with Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name. Free events on Saturday, September 28, included 19 author presentations in four Lewes venues, book sales, signings, and the Spirited Discussion after-party. On Sunday, September 29, the festival ended with the 2024 Closing Event featuring Tiya Miles, author of Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People. Then on Monday, September 30, HBF presented a special Community Event with Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became President.
With the help of our presenting funding partners — Delaware Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, and The Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices | PenFed Realty — as well as our program and community partners, volunteers, and donors, the 2025 History Book Festival was full of great discussions with authors of newly published narrative nonfiction and historical fiction. Special thanks to our Founding Program Partners for their continuing support: the Lewes Public Library, for event promotion and production, and Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach, official bookseller of the History Book Festival.
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