Savannah Book Festival
The Savannah Book Festival is a literary festival held each February in Savannah, Georgia, and features authors as well as educational events. In the past, the festival has hosted best-selling authors Stephen King, James Patterson and David Baldacci, Pulitzer Prize winners Garry Wills, Geraldine Brooks and Isabel Wilkerson, National Book Award winner Ben Fountain, and Nobel Prize laureate Al Gore.
== 2014 Festival ==
The Seventh Annual Savannah Book Festival is Feb. 13-16, 2014 in Telfair Square and at the Trustees Theater in Savannah.
== 2013 Festival ==
The Sixth Annual Savannah Book Festival was Feb. 14-17, 2013 in Telfair Square and at the Trustees Theater in Savannah. On Feb. 14, 2013, humorist Dave Barry delivered the welcome address. On Feb. 15, 2013, thriller writer James Patterson delivered the keynote address.  On Feb. 17, 2013, political novelist David Baldacci delivered the closing address.
Other 2013 authors included:Nobel Prize winner and former vice president Al Gore
NBC Today co-host Hoda Kotb
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series author Jeff Kinney
Literary novelist T.C. Boyle
Literary novelist and National Book Award winner Ben Fountain
Presidential historian Evan Thomas
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and religion writer Garry Wills
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Isabel Wilkerson
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist J.R. Moehringer
CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper
== 2012 Festival ==
Publishers Weekly, the publishing industry's leading trade magazine, noted that the Savannah Book Festival is carving a space for itself among the book festival big leagues.
The 2012 author lineup included:Best-selling thriller writer Stephen King
Literary novelist Pat Conroy
Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson
Political thriller writer Brad Thor
James Bond series writer Jeffery Deaver
Pulitzer Prize-winning literary novelist Geraldine Brooks
Literary novelist Stewart O'Nan'
== 2011 Festival ==
The 2011 author lineup included:Political strategist Karl Rove
Literary novelist Lee Smith
Literary novelist Karl Marlantes

== External links ==
Official site of Savannah Book Festival