Located in Mount Vernon Square, the Washington Monument overlooks the historic festival site and offers the perfect location for a weekend outing.

Dynamic, personal interaction between readers and authors has become a hallmark of our festival - please continue to check back for our 2007 schedule of events. The line-up will be finalized by August 15.

When:
September 28-30, 2007

Friday, 5-9pm
Saturday 11am-7pm
Sunday 11am-7pm

Where:
Mount Vernon Place
600 block North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Cost:
FREE!

Author line-up as of July 31; check back for updates.
Adrianna Amari, Prayer for the Morning Headlines
Rafael Alvarez, The Wire: Truth Be Told
Jabari Asim, The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why
Amy DuBois Barnett, Get Yours
Carlyn Berghoff, The Berghoff Family Cookbook
Connie Briscoe, Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50
Nicole Brown, Conversations at My Sister’s Dinner Table
Warren Brown, cakelove®
Carmen Bryan, It’s No Secret
Laura Bowers, Beauty Shop for Rent
Patricia Carlin, How to Tell if Your Boyfriend is the Antichrist
Doug & Jackie Christie, No Ordinary Love: A True Story of Marriage & Basketball
Pearl Cleage, Baby Brother’s Blues
Holly Clegg, Trim & Terrific Diabetic Cooking
Jelani Cobb, To the Break of Dawn
Amy Cohen, The Late Bloomer’s Revolution
Isabel Cruz, Isabel’s Cantina
Michael Cunningham, Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50
Debra Dickerson, The End of Blackness
Larry Doyle, I Love You Beth Cooper
Caitlin Friedman, The Girls’ Guide to Being a Boss (Without Being A Bitch)
Judy Gelman, The Kids’ Book Club Book
Nikki Giovanni, Acolytes: Poems
Eric Gower, The Breakaway Cook
Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style
Dorothy Hamill, My Life On Ice
Alex Hairston, She Creeps
Roya Hakakian, Journey From the Land of No
Stephen Hunter, 47th Samurai
Sandra Jones, I Only Meant to Wet My Feet
Vicki Levy Krupp, The Kids’ Book Club Book
David Kuo, Tempting Faith
Hiram Larew, More Than Anything
Lyah LeFlore, I Got your Back
Eddie Levert, I Got Your Back
Tina Louise, When I Grow Up
Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely
Victor McGlothin, Ms. Etta’s Fast House
Karen Quinones Miller, Satin Dolls
Victoria Christopher Murray, The Ex Files
Deanna Nikaido, Vibrating With silence
Felicia Pearson, Grace After Midnight
Linda Perlstein, Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade
Jerry Pinkey
Kim Roberts, The Kimnama
Victoria Rowell, The Women Who Raised Me
Rabbi James Rudin, The Baptizing of America
Rev Run, Words of Wisdom
Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising
Jen Schefft, Better Single Than Sorry
Walter Scheib, White House Chef
Andrew Schloss, Mastering the Grill
John Shields, Coastal Cooking
J.R. Shorter, They Called the Wind Mariah
Barbara M. Simon, The Woman From Away
Justine Simmons, God, Can You Hear Me?
Karrine Steffans, The Vixen Diaries
Ray Suarez, The Holy Vote
Simms Taback
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Failing America’s Faithful
Ellen Stohl Walsh, Mouse Count and Mouse Paint
Delilah Winder, Delilah’s Everyday Soul
Tim Wise, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
Teri Woods, True to the Game
Kimberly Yorio, The Girls Guide to Being a Boss (Without Being a Bitch)

Applications Now Available For Our Waiting List!

Exhibitors and Booksellers, click here.

Authors' Tent (for self-published and local authors), click here.

Volunteer Application, click here.

New for 2007 - The Book Club Connection

Register your Book Club with the Baltimore Book Festival and enjoy great benefits! Click here to register today.

Interested in speaking at the Baltimore Book Festival?

Most speaking engagements at the festival are by invitation only, through the Baltimore Book Festival executive committee.  We welcome publishers to nominate an author for consideration by sending us your press kit (please note that materials and books will not be returned). 

Baltimore Book Festival
c/o Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts
7 East Redwood Street, 5th floor
Baltimore, MD 21202

Baltimore Book Festival Sponsors:

Media Sponsors:

• City Paper
• Maryland Family Magazine
• Maryland Life Magazine
• Afro American Newspapers