The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival presents:

Local Author Fair: Discover a New Book
Featuring Melissa Ford, author of Measure of Love and David Bruce Smith, author of American Hero: John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States
FREE

Meet and greet authors at the Local Author Fair! A selection of DC-area authors will each be given three minutes to tell you all about their books. Buy a locally-grown book and network with area readers and writers at a wine and cheese reception.



Local Authors

Peter Adams, Politics, Faith, and the Making of American Judaism

Mitchell Bard, After Anatevka

David Ebenbach, The Artist's Torah

Fred Flatow, Loss and Restoration: Stories from Three Continents

Melissa Ford, Measure of Love

Frederic J. Frommer, You Gotta Have Heart: A History of Washington Baseball from 1959 to the 2012 National League East Champions

Barbara Goldberg, Scorched by the Sun

Merrill Leffler, Mark the Music

James Loeffler, The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire

Laura Melmed, Eight Winter Nights: A Family Hanukkah Book

Susan Orlins, Confessions of a Worrywart: Husbands, Lovers, Mothers, and Others

Suzanne Richardson, Angelfish

David Bruce Smith, American Hero: John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States

Moustafa Soliman, An Arab, a Jew and a Truck

Tammar Stein, Kindred

Mary L. Tabor, Who by Fire

 
Program Co-Sponsors: Creative Writing Program of the George Washington University English Department, The Writer's Center, Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University

See the entire Festival line-up here!