Past Years - 2018 Events | Wisconsin Book Festival

Burn Baby Burn

9/25/18 - 1:15pm

Meg Medina

Meg Medina will visit schools in the Madison area.

There There

9/26/18 - 7:00pm

Tommy Orange

A voice full of poetry and rage, a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide.

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

9/27/18 - 6:00pm

Caroline Fraser

The grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life.

Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment & Ambush

10/7/18 - 10:00am

James Patterson

The world's #1 bestselling author has teamed up with the world's most famous genius.

How to Leave: Quitting the City and Coping with a New Reality

10/9/18 - 7:00pm

Erin Clune

Priceless stories of own experiences leaving New York for her hometown in Wisconsin.

2018 Friends of UW-Madison Libraries Book Sale

10/10/18 - 4:00pm

Friends of UW Libraries

The largest used book sale in Wisconsin returns this fall!

The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson’s Idea of a University

10/10/18 - 4:30pm

Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy

The 2018 James Madison Lecture about Thomas Jefferson’s revolutionary ideas about higher education

2018 Friends of Madison Public Library Book Sale

10/11/18 - 9:00am

Friends of Madison Public Library

Find great bargains for your home library and support the library!

Madison in the Sixties

10/11/18 - 5:30pm

Stu Levitan

Madison in the Sixties details the ten tumultuous years that changed Madison forever

The Great Believers

10/11/18 - 5:30pm

Rebecca Makkai

A story of survivors who were forever affected by the AIDS crisis.

The Motherhood Affidavits

10/11/18 - 5:30pm

Laura Jean Baker

A beautiful and brave memoir of motherhood and its discontents.

The Tangled Tree

10/11/18 - 6:00pm

David Quammen

Recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history

Big Ideas for Busy People: Contagion

10/11/18 - 7:00pm

5 minute talks from some of UW-Madison’s biggest brains turning a microscope on microbes

Big Ideas for Busy People: Contagion - - 10/11/2018 - 7:00pm

Citizen Illegal

10/11/18 - 7:00pm

José Olivarez

Glimpses into life as a first generation immigrant.

Debut YA Writers Panel

10/11/18 - 7:00pm

Amelia Brunskill

Adrianne Finlay

Madeline Reynolds

A panel discussion of debut YA writers living in the Midwest.

Passing the Bass

10/11/18 - 7:00pm

celebration of the life and legacy of world-renowned 2014 NEA Jazzmaster Richard Davis

Passing the Bass - - 10/11/2018 - 7:00pm

The Immortalists

10/11/18 - 7:00pm

Chloe Benjamin

If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?

How Are You Going to Save Yourself

10/11/18 - 8:30pm

JM Holmes

Four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Life in the Anthropocene

10/12/18 - 2:00pm

Erle Ellis

A discussion of our role in shaping the planet, and how it will influence our future on many fronts

Love, Hate and Other Filters

10/12/18 - 4:30pm

Samira Ahmed

A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl whose world is rocked by a domestic terrorism attack.

Science on Paper

10/12/18 - 4:30pm

Jacki Whisenant

A look at how science has been visually communicated through the ages.

Writing the Unseen

10/12/18 - 4:30pm

Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva

Katrin Talbot

Andrea Potos

How do we write about experience that ties us to something beyond our material lives?

2018 Charlotte Zolotow Awards

10/12/18 - 5:00pm

Bao Phi

The Charlotte Zolotow Award is given annually to the author of the best picture book text in the US.

Wisconsin People & Ideas 2018 Fiction and Poetry Contest Reading

10/12/18 - 5:00pm

Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, & Letters

A reading from the winners of the Wisconsin People and Ideas fiction and poetry contest.