Literary Feast 2023 Author Announcement

Twelve Authors to Join the 34th Annual Literary Feast

The Broward Public Library Foundation is pleased to announce the authors who will be participating in the 2023 LitLIVE! on March 31 and A Night of Literary Feasts on April 1. For more info about each author and their books, please click the button below:

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Alicia Bessette – Smile Beach Murder


Daniel Black – Don’t Cry for Me


Deborah Cohen – Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on A World at War


James Grippando – Code 6


Alvin Hall – Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance


Catherine Newman – We All Want Impossible Things


Sarah Penner – The London Séance Society


Mary Laura Philpott – Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives


Matthew Quick – We Are the Light


Deanna Raybourn – Killers of a Certain Age


Susan Rogers – This is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You


Patricia Schultz – Why We Travel: 100 Reasons to See the World

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