Keynotes & Headliners – Boston Book Festival

2024 Keynote Speakers

Fiction Keynote

Fiction Keynote

Louise Erdrich

The Mighty Red

Mystery Keynote

Mystery Keynote

Jeffery Deaver

Fatal Intrusion

Mystery Keynote

Mystery Keynote

Isabella Maldonado

Fatal Intrusion

Art History Keynote

Art History Keynote

Sebastian Smee

Paris in Ruins

YA Keynote

YA Keynote

Aiden Thomas

Celestial Monsters

Science & Society Keynote

Science & Society Keynote

Francis Collins

The Road to Wisdom

2024 Headliners

Xio Axelrod

Winsome Bingham

Wiley Blevins

David Blight

Lee Bollinger

Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

John Patrick Green

Lawrence Lessig

Sarah Lewis

Majorie Liu

Kekla Magoon

Cynthia Manick

Susan Minot

Neel Mukherjee

Sajni Patel

Robert Pinsky

Cass R. Sunstein

LaDarrion Williams

Paul Zelinsky