In her new novel Typewriter Beach, New York Times bestselling author Meg Waite Clayton skewers the Golden Age of Hollywood while exploring what it means to grieve. Clayton will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
The Wounds Are the Witness by Yolanda Pierce, dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School, serves as devotional reading, a summons to self-care, and encouragement for everyday action and outspokenness. Dr. Pierce will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
In The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers, Cheryl McKissack Daniel chronicles her family’s emergence from artisanal construction work as enslaved laborers to prominence as architects and builders with a Nashville-based company. She will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
Carrie R. Moore’s Make Your Way Home is a collection of 11 stories that are deeply researched and deeply rooted in both the American South and the Black experience there. Moore will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
Nature’s Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World, the second book from Sewanee-based writer Patrick Dean, relates the history of a little-known man and his greatest achievement. Dean will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
With the Pulitzer Prize-winning King: A Life, Jonathan Eig has written the definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr. for this generation. Eig will discuss King: A Life at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
