Maplewood South Orange Book Festival

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Caldecott Winner Javaka Steptoe To Deliver Closing Keynote

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The Maplewood—South Orange Book Festival is delighted to announce that Javaka Steptoe, the 2017 winner of the Caldecott Medal, will be delivering the closing keynote address. Javaka Steptoe is an award winning, nationally renowned artist, designer, illustrator, and author. He’s received numerous awards for his work as an illustrator and as an author, including the Caldecott Medal for his most recent work, Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

 

A local hero Pamela Erens

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Today’s featured author is a local hero, who will be honored in a few weeks with the Maplewood Literary Award. We are thrilled she will be joining us as part of the book festival.

Pamela Erens
Pamela Erens is the author of the novels The Virgins, The Understory, and, most recently, Eleven Hours. She has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Eleven Hours was named a Best Book of 2016 by Kirkus, NPR, Literary Hub, and The New Yorker. Reader’s Digest designated Erens one of “23 Contemporary Writers You Should Have Read by Now.”