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The Boston Book Festival
2 Canal Park
Cambridge, MA 02141
P: (617) 252-3240
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T: @bostonbookfest
FB: Boston Book Festival

 

Who We Are

Staff

Deborah Z Porter
Founding President

Emily D'Amour Pardo
Executive Director

Nia Lewis
Project Manager,
One City One Story

Eileen Newman
Marketing and
Development Director

Lisa M Perry
Design Manager

Interns:
Nissa Bagelman
Sarah Ditkoff
Hannah Kelly
Alison Mehlsak
Elizabeth Rosenbaum
Nicolas Torres

 

 

Board of Directors

Deborah Z Porter,
President

Steve Oristaglio,
Treasurer

Susana B. Lopez,
Secretary

Hannah Gilligan Commoss

Callie Crossley

Robert Duboff

Joseph Finder

Paul La Camera

Glenda Manzi

Jeff Mayersohn

John Taylor (Ike) Williams

Simone Winston

 

 

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

Junot Diaz

Anita Diamant

Andre Dubus III

Leslie Epstein

Atul Gawande

Hank Phillippi Ryan

Ha Jin

Allegra Goodman

Elizabeth Graver

Lynne Griffin

Jennifer Haigh

Esmond Harmsworth

John Hodgman

Alice Hoffman

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

Salvatore Scibona

Jim Shepard

Anita Shreve

Janet Silver

Jessica Stern

Karen Wulf

Erica Funkhouser

Gish Jen

 


 

 

Technology Advisory Board

Michail Bletsas

Judith Donath

Michael Hawley


Glenda Manzi

Andrew McAfee

Nicholas Negroponte


 

 

Blockbuster Sponsors 2010

Boston Foundation

 

Houghton Mifflin

Liberty Mutual

 

 

 

 

Bestseller Sponsors 2010

Hachette

 

Plymouth Rock logo

Hotel Commonwealth logo

 

Other Press logo

Bank of America logo

 

MassHumanities logo

Times Literary Supplement logo

 

 

 

 

 

 

Media Sponsors 2010

Boston Globe

New York Review Of Books

Boston Magazine

NECN

The Phoenix

Mix 104.1

WGBH

Boston Parents

Oldies

WBUR

Comcast

WBZ logo
MBTA

 

 

Supporters 2010

Cambridge Trust

CVS

Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

 

 

In-Kind Sponsors 2010

Upstatement: Boston Web Design and Development

Kneerim & Williams Literary Agency at Stern Shapiro Weissberg & Garin LLP

Grossman Marketing Group

The Monitor Group

Constangy, Brooks & Smith LLP

Polar Beverages

Martignetti Companies

 

Partner Organizations 2010

826 Boston

ArtsBoston

The Arts Fuse

Berklee College of Music

Boston Athenaeum

Boston Children’s Museum

Boston Public Library

Brattle Theatre

Cambridge Public Library

The City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department

Emerson College

Grub Street

Mass Poetry Festival

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

New Center for Arts and Culture

Old South Church

PEN New England

ReadBoston

Trinity Church

Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston

 

Partner Bookstores 2010

Brookline Booksmith

Harvard Bookstore

Jamaicaway Books

New England Mobile Book Fair

Newtonville Books

Porter Square Books

Barnes & Noble Booksellers