Events - Adult Authors

Provided below is a list of all Collingswood Book Festival events featuring authors of adult fiction and nonfiction. Also available is a downloadable and printable PDF of all festival events this year. Please note that the event schedule is subject to change as necessary.

Town Book Discussion - Wednesday, September 29, 7:00 p.m.

Location: Collingswood Public Library, 771 Haddon Avenue, Collingswood, NJ

Participate in a discussion of Outlawed by Anna North. Outlawed is the story of Ada, a 17-year-old bride who is cast from her home in an alternative 1894 where female infertility is against the law. North explores the setting of an alternate-history old west as a site for gender exploration and fluidity, and collective survival in the face of an oppressive government. It's a traditional western epic flipped on its head with a feminist twist for a very refreshing and timely novel about self-worth. Anna North will appear in conversation with local author Joe Starnes on Saturday, October 2nd.

Saturday, October 2

Location: Tent 1 - Haddon and Frazier Avenues, Collingswood, NJ

10:00 a.m. — Tom Garvey, The Secret Apartment: Vet Stadium, a surreal memoir

11:00 a.m. — Jim Murphy, Real Philly History, Real Fast: Fascinating Facts and Interesting Oddities about the City's Heroes and Historic Sites, moderated by festival author chair David Jastrow

12:00 p.m. — Sasha Issenberg, The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage, moderated by Vice President of PFLAG Collingswood Jim DeSimone

1:00 p.m. — Kareem Rosser, Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever, moderated by writer and owner of Ida's Bookshop Jeannine Cook.

2:00 p.m. — Anna North, Outlawed, moderated by novelist Joe Samuel Starnes

3:00 p.m. — Ray Didinger, Finished Business: My Fifty Years of Headlines, Heroes, and Heartaches, moderated by festival author chair David Jastrow

View bios of our participating authors of adult fiction and nonfiction.