We’re excited to announce this year’s Festival Friends Pass authors! Friends Pass holders will enjoy priority seating and access to the signing lines for these sessions. We will announce sessions dates, times, and venues in mid-October.
The Texas Book Festival brings culture, art, and literature to Texas for free thanks to generous donors. Become a 2022 Festival Friend by donating $100 or more and we’ll say thank you with a Festival Friends Pass. You’ll also know that you made a crucial difference in our communities by helping us keep arts and culture accessible for readers in Austin and across Texas.
Want to become a Festival Friend? There’s still time!
2022 Festival Friends Pass Sessions
Omar Epps in Conversation: Nubia: The Awakening
Featured book: Nubia: The Awakening
Sandra Brown in Conversation About Overkill
Featured book: Overkill
Art, Memory, and Larger-Than-Life Parents with Ada Calhoun, Elizabeth McCracken
Featured books: Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, The Hero of this Book
The Kennedys: New Biographies of JFK and Ted Kennedy with John A. Farrell, Mark Updegrove
Featured books: Ted Kennedy: A Life, Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency
The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo. and the War for America with H. W. Brands
Featured book: The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
The Second Half: New Starts at Middle Ages with Angie Cruz, James Hannaham
Featured books: How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
Matthew Quick in Conversation About We Are the Light
Featured book: We Are the Light
Woman Without Shame with Sandra Cisneros
Featured book: Woman Without Shame: Poems
On Family and Food with Rabia Chaudry, Madhushree Ghosh
Featured books: Fatty Fatty Boom Boom, Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family
Practicing Joy, Gaining Wisdom with Ross Gay, Simran Jeet Singh
Featured books: Inciting Joy: Essays, The Light We Give