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Location/County: Charleston, Kanawha
October 27, 2017 — October 28, 2017
The West Virginia Book Festival returns to the Charleston Civic Center October 27 and 28, 2017. R.L. Stine, the best-selling children’s author whose “Goosebumps” series has sold millions of copies since it began in the 1990s, will headline the festival on the evening of Friday, Oct. 27. Other authors coming to the festival include Henry Winkler, best known for playing The Fonz on “Happy Days,” but now author of several children’s novels; National Book Award finalist Nicola Yoon, whose young-adult novel “Everything, Everything” was turned into a movie earlier this year; and Sharyn McCrumb, an award-winning Appalachian author who headlined the first West Virginia Book Festival in 2001.
The annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities from the West Virginia Humanities Council, scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 26, will feature Azar Nafisi, author of the memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” about one university professor’s experience during Iran’s Islamic Revolution.
Stay updated with the latest news at the West Virginia Book Festival website.
The West Virginia Book Festival is supported in part by the West Virginia Humanities Council.