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Dear Festival Friends, If you visit our website—and we hope you have it bookmarked!—you’ll notice that new names are quietly appearing in our 2025 author lineup. Each addition is like the pop of a champagne cork here at Lit Fest HQ, and more fantastic writers and thinkers will be signing on in the coming months. Before we hurtle from the elections to the holidays (both fraught, both exhausting), we’d like to take a moment to share the growing roster of literary icons who will be joining us at the Festival May 16–18. Their work represents some of the best writing to be produced in recent decades, and the stories they tell help to keep us going through even the hardest of times. Marie Arana: National Book Award finalist and author of the memoir American Chica and LatinoLand Michael Cunningham: Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours and A Home at the End of the World Jonathan Eig: Renowned historian and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the Martin Luther King biography
King: A Life Percival Everett: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Booker Prize and author of James, Erasure, The Trees, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier Miranda July: Filmmaker, actor, and National Book Award finalist for the provocative New York Times bestseller All Fours Colum McCann: National Book Award–winning author of Let the Great World Spin, TransAtlantic, Apeirogon, and the forthcoming Twist Viet Thanh Nguyen: Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer, The Committed, Refugees, and A Man of Two Faces Michael Pollan: New York Times bestselling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Botany of Desire, How to Change Your Mind, and This Is Your Mind on Plants Heather Cox Richardson: Historian and author of the bestselling Democracy Awakening and the hit Substack newsletter Letters from an American Deborah Jackson Taffa: National Book Award finalist and author of the acclaimed memoir Whiskey Tender Amy Tan: Author of beloved bestsellers, including The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, and The Backyard Bird Chronicles Terry Tempest Williams: Naturalist, activist, and author of the environmental classics Refuge and An Unspoken Hunger Gabrielle Zevin: Author of the breakout hit novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Watch our website, newsletters, and social media for updates to our author lineup, which, if it hasn’t already, will fill you with an overwhelming need to be in Santa Fe next May.
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