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SEPT 13, 14 & 15, 2024
A GLIMPSE OF OUR PRESENTERS OVER THE YEARS
2023
Harvey Fierstein
Actor and author

Amanda McBroom
Cabaret Singer

Scott Snyder
Comic book author – American Vampire

2022
Nelson & Alex DeMille
Author of John Corey series and more

Paul Freedman
Food critic and author of American Cuisine

Sheila Weller
Girls Like Us

2021
David Kirkpatrick
Film producer, The Queen’s Gambit

Richard Morais
The Hundred Foot Journey

John Berendt
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

2020
Gloria Steinem
author and feminist

Roz Chast
New Yorker cartoonist

Samuel R. Delaney
Science Fiction author

2019
Anne Perry
Historical Novelist

Lisa Lampanelli
Comedienne

Jack Devine, CIA
Good Hunting

2018
Alan Alda
Mash actor, Author

Frances FitzGerald
Journalist, Historian Fire, In the Lake

Mary Badham
Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird

2017
Lee Child
Jack Reacher series

Len & Heather Cariou
Love Letters

Patricia Bosworth
The Men in My Life

2016
Gloria Steinem
My Life on the Road

MK Asante
BUCK A Memoir

John Berendt
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Illustrations by Bob Eckstein from the 2023 Festival
Bob Eckstein is an award-winning writer, New Yorker cartoonist, cartoon editor, author of The New York Times bestseller Footnotes From the World’s Greatest Bookstores. His cartoons, OpEds, and short stories appear regularly in the New York Times, New York Daily News, MAD Magazine, Barron’s, Readers Digest, The Spectator, Prospect, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Atlas Obscura, LitHub, among many others. He was a columnist for the Village Voice, New York Newsday, and TimeOut New York. He has been interviewed in over 100 TV, radio and magazine spots including Good Morning America and People magazine. He was selected Erma Bombeck Humorist of the Month.
Follow him on Twitter at @BobEckstein, Facebook Bob Eckstein and Instagram at bob_eckstein. All of his books are available on Amazon.
Readers
Building on the tradition of story telling and the participatory energy of book clubs, we invite readers to share their thoughts, with the authors.
Writers
“This festival shows us the worldwide importance of coming together to share ideas and build community.”
-Gloria Steinem
Conversation
The Milford Readers and Writers Festival aims to inspire conversations between people who love to read books and people who write them.