The Monster’s Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
(W.W. Norton & Co., 2023)

Saturday, September 30
9:00 a.m.
Lewes Public Library Meeting Room

About the book
When fossil hunter Barnum Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils in the Montana wilderness in 1902, forever changing the world of paleontology, Henry Fairfield Osborn, a curator at the struggling American Museum of Natural History in New York, sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy. As the public turns out in droves to cower before this bone-chilling giant of the past, Brown and Osborn turn dinosaurs from a biological oddity into a beloved part of culture, igniting a new understanding of our planet and our place within it. Smithsonian magazine named this one of their Ten Best Books of 2022.

About the author
David K. Randall is the best-selling author of four books, including Dreamland and Black Death at the Golden Gate, which was featured at the 2019 History Book Festival. A senior reporter at Reuters, his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications.

Purchase the book
Please help support local independent bookstores by purchasing this book at Browseabout Books, official bookseller of the History Book Festival. Online sources and digital versions are tempting; however, supporting local brick and mortar shops helps to preserve our vibrant main streets. Drop by Browseabout, order books online, or call the store at 302-226-2665. You also may purchase a copy at biblion in Lewes.

About the Festival
The History Book Festival is the first and only book festival in the United States devoted exclusively to history. With the help of our presenting funding partners — Delaware Humanities and The Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices I PenFed Realty — as well as our program and community partners, volunteers, and donors, the 2023 History Book Festival will be full of great discussions with authors of newly published narrative nonfiction and historical fiction. Our Keynote Address is presented by Sally Mott Freeman and John K. Freeman, and our Closing Address is presented by Dogfish Head Beer & Benevolence.

Special thanks to our program partners for their continuing support: the Lewes Public Library for event promotion and venue; Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach, official bookseller of the History Book Festival; Lewes Chamber of Commerce for event promotion, and the Cape Gazette and Delmarva Public Media, our media partners.

Additional thanks to our community partners: ACLU Delaware, Beebe Healthcare, CAMP Rehoboth, Historic Lewes Farmers Market, Lewes Historical Society, Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth Beach Historical Society & Museum, Seaside Jewish Community, and Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice (SDARJ).