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The Boston Book Festival
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Cambridge, MA 02141
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Who We Are

Staff

Deborah Z Porter
Founder and
Executive Director

Norah Piehl
Director of Communications
and Development

Katie Lynn Murphy
Project Manager,
One City One Story

Interns:
Daniel Jones
Katie Lynn Murphy
Michael Thomson

 

 

Board of Directors

Deborah Z Porter,
President

Steve Oristaglio,
Treasurer

Hannah Gilligan Commoss

Callie Crossley

Robert Duboff

Rona Kiley

Glenda Manzi

Jeff Mayersohn

John Taylor (Ike) Williams

 

 

 

 

 

Honorary Advisory Board

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Ann Gund

Arthur Golden

Phil Balboni

Lou Casagrande

Amy Ryan

Diane Patrick

Tom Perrotta

Steve Grossman

Larry Weber

 

 

Literary Advisory Group

Helene Atwan

D.Y. Bechard

Chris Bohjalian

Chris Castellani

Callie Crossley

Anita Diamant

Junot Diaz

Andre Dubus III

Leslie Epstein

Erica Funkhouser

Atul Gawande

Allegra Goodman

Elizabeth Graver

Lynne Griffin

Jennifer Haigh

Esmond Harmsworth

John Hodgman

Alice Hoffman

Gish Jen

Ha Jin

Bret Anthony Johnston

Dennis Lehane

Elinor Lipman

Margot Livesey

Michael Lowenthal

Amy MacKinnon

Gregory Maguire

Elizabeth McCracken

Kim McLarin

Mameve Medwed

Claire Messud

Sue Miller

Susan Orlean

Robert Pinsky

Richard Russo

Hank Phillippi Ryan

Salvatore Scibona

Jim Shepard

Anita Shreve

Janet Silver

Jessica Stern

Karen Wulf

 


 

 

Technology Advisory Board

Michail Bletsas

Judith Donath

Michael Hawley


Glenda Manzi

Andrew McAfee

Nicholas Negroponte


 

Presenting Partner 2011

WBUR logo

Tour de Force Sponsors 2011

Verizon logo

 

Google Books Logo

 

 

 

Blockbuster Sponsors 2011

Other Press logo

 

Random House Audio

 

Pearson Foundation logo

 

 

Bestseller Sponsors 2011

Hachette

 

Plymouth Rock logo

 

Houghton Mifflin

Copley Square Hotel

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starred Review Sponsor 2011

Bank of America logo

 

 

Debut Sponsors 2011

Target Logo

 

VCFA logo

 

 

 

 

Media Sponsors 2011

Boston Globe

 

New York Review Of Books

 

Boston Magazine

NECN

 

The Phoenix

 

Mix 104.1

MBTA

 

Boston Parents Paper

 

Oldies

TLS

 

WBZ logo

 

 

 

In-Kind Sponsors 2011

The 47th

Broadcastr

Copley Square Hotel

Food Should Taste Good

Grossman Marketing Group

Law Offices of Daniel P. Capobianco

LAZ Parking

Martignetti Companies

The Monitor Group

Samuel Adams

Stern Shapiro Weissberg & Garin LLP

Towerstream

Virtuous Teas

Partner Organizations 2011

826 Boston

ArtsBoston

Berklee College of Music

Boston Athenæum

Boston Public Library

Brattle Theatre

Cambridge Public Library

The City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department

Emerson College Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department

Grub Street

Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston

Massachusetts Center for the Book

Mass Poetry Festival

The Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism and Special Events

New Center for Arts and Culture

PEN New England

ReadBoston

Partner Bookstores 2011

Brookline Booksmith

Harvard Book Store

Porter Square Books

RiverRun Bookstore

Newtonville Books

Wellesley Booksmith

Grolier Poetry Bookshop