A Celebration of Books,
Writers & LIterary Excellence

Save the Date


Gaithersburg
Book Festival

May 16, 2026

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Genre: Non-Fiction

Dr. Stanley Andrisse

Featured Title: Breaking Chains, Building Futures: Pathways to Redemption, Education, and Excellence

Stanley Andrisse, M.B.A., Ph.D., is a formerly incarcerated person who transformed his life from prison to becoming a tenured endocrinology professor at Howard University College of Medicine. He is the executive director of From Prison Cells to PhD (P2P), a… Continue Reading

Stefan Merrill Block

Featured Title: Homeschooled

Stefan Merrill Block grew up in Plano, Texas. His first book, “The Story of Forgetting,” was an international best-seller and the winner of Best First Fiction at the Rome International Festival of Literature, The Ovid Prize from the Romanian Writer’s… Continue Reading

Captain's Dinner by Adam Cohen

Adam Cohen

Featured Title: Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History

Adam Cohen is journalist and lawyer. He was a senior writer for Time magazine and a New York Times Editorial Board member. He was also a public interest law litigator, and a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He… Continue Reading

Deadwood by Peter Cozzens

Peter Cozzens

Featured Title: Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West

Peter Cozzens is a retired Foreign Service Officer and the multiple award-winning author of 19 books on the Civil War and the American West His most recent book is the newly released “Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American… Continue Reading

Injustice

Aaron C. Davis

Featured Title: Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department

Aaron C. Davis is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post who has won the Pulitzer Prize twice and has been a finalist three times. He was a lead writer and reporter on the Post’s investigative series into the January… Continue Reading

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

Featured Title: Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson is the author of the critically-acclaimed book “Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free,” which came out in 2025 from Simon & Schuster. Dickinson’s first book has been hailed as an exceptional biography and an essential… Continue Reading

Stefan Fatsis

Featured Title: Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary

Stefan Fatsis is the author of The New York Times best-seller “Word Freak,” about the world of competitive Scrabble; “A Few Seconds of Panic,” about life in the National Football League; and “Wild and Outside,” about minor league baseball. His… Continue Reading

Charles Ferguson

Featured Title: Presidential Seclusion: The Power of Camp David

Charles Ferguson spent three and a half years as the Camp David Historian and Presidential Chaplain. During that time, he coordinated with 14 Presidential Libraries to better tell the true story of the President’s exclusive mountaintop retreat, scouring records and… Continue Reading

Eli Frankel

Featured Title: Sisters in Death: The Black Dahlia, the Prairie Heiress, and Their Hunter

Eli Frankel has served as a television and documentary production company owner, Emmy-nominated executive producer, network executive, showrunner, editor, camera operator, writer, and director of multiple series for broadcast television, cable television, and streaming networks. His credits include MGM/Epix’s definitive… Continue Reading

Christopher C. Gorham

Featured Title: Matisse at War: Art and Resistance in Nazi Occupied France

Christopher C. Gorham is a lawyer, educator, and acclaimed author of “The Confidante” (a Goodreads Choice Award finalist in History/Biography) and “Matisse at War: Art and Resistance in Nazi Occupied France,” a finalist for the Marfield Prize for arts writing.… Continue Reading

Reyna Grande

Featured Title: Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can't Forget

Reyna Grande is an award-winning author whose work captures the complexities of immigration and the American Dream. Born in Mexico and left behind by her parents at age four, she crossed the border undocumented at age nine. These experiences fueled… Continue Reading

Melanie D.G. Kaplan

Featured Title: Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research

Melanie D.G. Kaplan is a longtime independent journalist whose travel and science writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and National Parks magazine. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, a 2021–2022 MIT… Continue Reading

Retribution by Jonathan Karl

Jonathan Karl

Featured Title: Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America

Jonathan Karl is the chief Washington correspondent for ABC News and co-anchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Karl has covered every major beat in Washington, D.C., including the White House, Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, and the State Department. He… Continue Reading

Jane Leavy

Featured Title: Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It

Jane Leavy is the author of The New York Times best-sellers “The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created,” “The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood,” “Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy,” and the comic… Continue Reading

Injustice

Carol Leonnig

Featured Title: Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department

Carol Leonnig, a five-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the author of three best-selling books and an investigative reporter who has worked at The Washington Post for the last 25 years. She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for her… Continue Reading

Emily Mendenhall

Featured Title: Invisible Illness: A History, from Hysteria to Long COVID

Emily Mendenhall is an award-winning author, anthropologist, editor, and professor at Georgetown University. Emily’s work often addresses challenges people face at the intersections of culture, health, and politics, and focuses on how people navigate the troubled waters of chronic illness… Continue Reading

Megan Kate Nelson

Featured Title: The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier

Megan Kate Nelson is a historian, cocktail enthusiast, and the author of five books, including the forthcoming, “The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier,” as well as”The Three-Cornered War” (2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist, History) and “Saving Yellowstone” (2023… Continue Reading

Keith O’Brien

Featured Title: Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird

Keith O’Brien is The New York Times best-selling author of “Charlie Hustle,” “Paradise Falls,” “Fly Girls,” and “Outside Shot.” He has won the 2025 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld award for biography; has been a finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary… Continue Reading

The Queen and Her Presidents by Susan Page

Susan Page

Featured Title: The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History

Susan Page is Washington Bureau chief of USA Today, where she writes about the White House and national politics. She is the best-selling author of several books, including “Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power,” “The Rulebreaker: The… Continue Reading

Steve Vogel

Featured Title: A Task Force Called Faith: The Untold Story of the U.S. Army Soldiers Who Fought for Survival at Chosin Reservoir―and Honor Back Home

Steve Vogel, the author of “A Task Force Called Faith,” is a veteran journalist who reported for The Washington Post for more than two decades, writing extensively about military affairs. His reporting about the war in Afghanistan was part of… Continue Reading

Patrick Wohl

Featured Title: Something Big: The True Story of the Brown's Chicken Massacre, A Decade-Long Manhunt, and the Trials That Followed

Patrick Wohl is an author and lawyer originally from Illinois. He received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and attended The George Washington University. His first book, “Down Ballot,” tells the story of a campaign for state representative… Continue Reading