Let’s look back at the 2022 Festival!
Highlights from the 2022 Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books.
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2022 Festival Programming
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      Sophie: The Incomparable Mayor Masloff. Barbara Burstin The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness. Katie Booth. American Workman: The Life and Art of John Kane. Maxwell King and Louise Lippincott CHILDREN’S AUTHOR CENSORED: Children’s Books in the 21st Century. Jonah Winter COMICS CHUTZ-POW! CREATIVE NONFICTION My Last Eight-Thousand Days. Lee Gutkind ENVIRONMENT Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America. Eliza Griswold Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia. Kris Maher FICTION The Heiress of Pittsburgh. Ken Gormley Mercy Street. Jennifer Haigh Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash: A Novel. Tammy Pasterick HISTORY Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy. Nathaniel Philbrick The Mount Washington Transit Tunnel Disaster. Mary-Jane Kuffner Hirt Isaly’s Chipped Ham, Klondikes & Other Tales From Behind the Counter. Brian Butko Highlights from the Italian American Collection. Melissa E. Marinaro JAZZ The Blues Walked In: A Novel. Kathleen George Mary Lou Williams: Music for the Soul. Deanna Witkowski LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION Anouar Rahmani Jorge Olivera Castillo RaMa Tuhin Das MEMOIR American Bastard. Jan Beatty Instability in Six Colors. Rachel Kallem Whitman, M.S.Ed., Ed.D. Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place. Neema Avashia MYSTERY One Last Chance. Jeffrey Siger NON-FICTION When You Wonder, You’re Learning: Mister Rogers’ Enduring Lessons for Raising Creative, Curious, Caring Kids. Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski Two Sides, Three Rivers. Sharon Dilworth POETRY Vertical Bridges. Paola Corso SPECULATIVE FICTION The Illness Lesson. Clare Beams Ocean State. Stewart O’Nan The Gone World. Tom Sweterlitsch 
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      POETRY ALLOWED TENT at BAKERY SQUARE Madwomen in the Attic- 10:00am Soledad Caballero- 11:00am Robert Walicki- 11:15am Lori Jakiela- 11:30am Angele Ellis & Don Wentworth- 11:45am Toi Derricotte, Danielle Orbisie-Orlu & Celeste Gainey- 1:00pm Cameron Barnett- 1:45pm Elizabeth Hoover- 2:15pm Daniel Borzutzky & Michelle Gil-Montero- 2:30pm Michael Wurster- 3:00pm Judith R. Robinson- 3:15pm Lynn Emanuel- 3:45pm KDKA STAGE at BAKERY SQUARE Bri Griffith, Bonita Lee Penn, & Veronica Corpuz- 11:00am Carly Inghram & Aurielle Marie- 1:30pm 
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      CLP- EAST LIBERTY The Stalking Seagulls. Michelle Vattula- 10:00am Baby Goes Beep. Rebecca O’Connell- 10:15am Black Power Storytime. DS Kinsell- 10:30am She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman: Deaf-Blind Pioneer. Sally Alexander- 10:45am Going Down Home with Daddy & Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations. Kelly Starling Lyons- 11:00am A Thousand White Butterflies. Jessica Betancourt-Perez & Karen Lynn Williams - 11:30am The Spirit of the Cheetah. Karen Lynn Williams- 11:30am 
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      CLP- EAST LIBERTY The Life I’m In. Sharon Flake- 1:00pm CHUTZ-POW: Authors and Educators Panel - 1:30pm The Fabled Stables. Jonathan Auxier- 2:00pm Snow Struck. Nick Courage- 3:00pm 
 
                         
               
               
               
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