James Oglethorpe arrived in Savannah on Feb. 12, 1733 and Michael Thurmond arrived at his burial site on Oct. 7, 1996. Two dates which represent the start of something special. […]
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Savannah Book Festival returns for year 17 over President’s Day weekend
The Savannah Book Festival (SBF) returns this month for its 17th year of celebrating the written word. With a mission to promote reading, writing and civil conversation, the SBF has […]
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Savannah Book Festival organizers gearing up for this year’s offerings
Festival Saturday at the annual Savannah Book Festival is free and open to the public on Sat., Feb. 19 from 9AM-5:30PM, Festival Saturday features dozens of authors in person at […]
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The Savannah Book Festival Goes Virtual
This year’s Savannah Book Festival will have a different feel than in years past, considering that there will be no actual physical festival itself, but rather a virtual one. The […]
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Savannah Book Festival: Kent Garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth
The book tells the story of Garrett and his history-making classmates, and Ellsworth lent her background in the history of U.S. education to assist in the story
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Savannah Book Festival: Infiltrating Auschwitz
With the Iron Curtain of the Soviet Union firmly closed, Witold Pilecki’s story went untold for decades
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Savannah Book Festival: Tena Clark
‘Southern Discomfort’ is Clark’s story of strength, love, and acceptance in the Civil Rights-era South
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Savannah Book Festival: Patti Callahan Henry
Yet, they fell in love, and Patti Callahan Henry’s ‘Becoming Mrs. Lewis’ lays the story out for us
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Savannah Book Festival: Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes
Rescue is Kensky’s service dog, and the duo is the subject of ‘Rescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship’
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Savannah Book Festival: Dan Hampton
His newest book, Chasing the Demon, chronicles the leadup to the breaking of the sound barrier in the years after WWII
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Savannah Book Festival: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
These gripping, visceral, often suddenly violent stories are rather a distressingly realistic psychological portrayal of life as a black person in America today, right now
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Savannah Book Festival: Marie Benedict
As it turned out, the world at that could not quite handle a beautiful genius, posits Marie Benedict in her novel, ‘The Only Woman in the Room’