Key School To Host 21st Annual Annapolis Book Festival

Key School will host the 21st annual Annapolis Book Festival on April 27 from 10:00am-5:00pm. The festival brings together nationally renowned authors and thousands of book fans for author talks, panel discussions, book signings and other activities. Interactive, multi-generational and free of charge, the festival has something for book lovers of all ages.

Combining entertainment, children’s activities, ComicKey! (a family-friendly comic con) and food trucks with compelling author panels, the festival attracts more than 3,000 attendees each year.

This year’s lineup will include the following:

• National Book Award winner and best-selling author Alice McDermott
• Peabody and Emmy Award winner and former NPR host Michele Norris
• Acclaimed presidential historian and bestselling author Douglas Brinkley
• NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent and author Ali Vitali
• Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery
• Bestselling thriller writer Liv Constantine
• Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James Risen
• Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton
• Bestselling author, editor and journalist Evan Thomas
• Award-winning author and director of the Department of Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University, Jonathan Metzl
• Director of MFA Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts and memoirist Deborah Jackson Taffa
• Bestselling author and CNN Supreme Court analyst Stephen Vladeck
• Constitutional lawyer and president of the Brennan Center for Justice, Michael Waldman
• Former White House executive chef Charlie Redden
• Acclaimed sportswriter and bestselling author John Eisenberg