Announcing the 2024 Festival Friends Pass session authors. Don’t miss your chance to secure priority access to see these authors during the 2024 Texas Book Festival on November 16–17. Festival Friends Pass session dates, times, and venues will be announced in late October ahead of the Festival Weekend.
The 2024 Festival Friends Pass Session Authors are:
- Jay Ellis (Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood): actor, philanthropist, and entrepreneur best known for his role in HBO’s Insecure
- Rumaan Alam (Entitlement): author of the NYT bestselling novel Leave the World Behind
- Hanif Abdurraqib (There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension): NYT bestselling author and Andrew Carnegie Medal winner
- Stephen Graham Jones (I Was a Teenage Slasher): NYT bestselling author of The Only Good Indians
- Claire Messud (This Strange Eventful History) & Jane Smiley (Lucky): Guggenheim Fellow Claire Messud joined by Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley
- Rachel Khong (Real Americans) & Téa Obreht (The Morningside): California Book Award for First Fiction winner Rachel Khong joined by internationally bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife Téa Obreht
- Jean Hanff Korelitz (The Sequel) & Liz Moore (The God of the Woods): NYT bestselling author Jean Hanff Korelitz joined by fellow NYT bestselling author Liz Moore
- Michele Norris (Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think about Race and Identity): multi-award-winning journalist including a Peabody Award and an Emmy
- Attica Locke (Guide Me Home): NYT bestselling author of five novels with screenwriting and TV producer credits including Little Fires Everywhere
- Cristina Rivera Garza (Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice) & Angela Garcia (The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City’s Anexos): Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cristina Rivera Garza joined by Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing winner Angela Garcia
