A Celebration of Books,
Writers & LIterary Excellence

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Gaithersburg
Book Festival

May 18, 2024

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Literary Biographies

Join us as we explore a couple of significant literary lives, John Kennedy Toole and Sylvia Plath.

Cory MacLauchlin will be speaking about his book, “Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces.”

Elizabeth Winder will be speaking her book, “Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953.”

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