Ticketed Events for 2016 Nantucket Book Festival Now on Sale

By: Tyler Peterson Apr. 26, 2016

The 5th annual Nantucket Book Festival, June 17-19, has released a schedule of ticketed events for the weekend, building on the already impressive author line-up which includes Marlon James, Sebastian Junger, Diane Rehm, and others. Ticketed events provide audiences with unique opportunities to hear and interact with their favorite authors, while playing an integral part in paying for the Festival. Over eighty percent of the Festival programs are free and open to the public.

Ticketed events include a Friday morning breakfast with Alice Hoffman and Ann Leary; lunch at the Nantucket Yacht Club with Diane Ackerman; Saturday breakfast with Newbery medal winner Jack Gantos (free for children); lunch at the Straight Wharf Restaurant with Elin Hilderbrand and Nancy Thayer; lunch with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks; a cooking demonstration at the new Nantucket Culinary Center by Michael Ruhlman; and Sunday morning breakfast at the White Elephant's Brant Point Grill with Billy Collins. Cisco Brewers will host a "Cisco Send-Off" on Sunday afternoon to celebrate the authors and volunteers who make the Festival possible

The closing program for the weekend Festival on Sunday evening, "Book to Film," is also a ticketed event and will feature Nathaniel Philbrick, Diane Ackerman, and Marlon James in conversation at the Nantucket Historical Association's Whaling Museum For full event schedule and to purchase tickets, visit http://nantucketbookfestival.org/festival-info/schedule/.

About the Nantucket Book Festival: The Nantucket Book Festival, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, is a multi-day cultural event celebrating the rich literary resources of Nantucket's past, present and future. The Festival seeks to create and renew enthusiasm for books, connect authors and readers, encourage a love of reading and writing among young people, raise funds for literary causes, and promote Nantucket Island as an oasis and haven for the literary arts. For more information please visit www.nantucketbookfestival.org.

Nantucket Book Festival, June 17-19, 2016 Ticketed Event Schedule

Friday, June 17

Alice Hoffman & Ann Leary: Family Ties

8:30am - 9:30am, at Atheneum Great Hall, Breakfast

Nantucket Natural: A Feast for the Senses with Diane Ackerman

12:00pm - 1:30pm, Nantucket Yacht Club, Luncheon

Saturday, June 18

Jack Gantos: From Cats to Catastrophes

8:30am - 9:45am, Dreamland Theater Harborview Room, Breakfast

Lunch with Geraldine Brooks - Shepherd to Soldier: The Saga of King David

12:00pm - 1:30pm, Dreamland Theater Harborview Room

Elin Hilderbrand and Nancy Thayer: Appetite for Life