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Nancie Battaglia

Bill McKibben

Environmental, Science

Bill McKibben is an author, environmentalist, and activist. In 1988 he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming. He is a co-founder and senior advisor at 350.org, an international climate campaign that works in 188 countries around the world.


Festival Years: 2018

Recommended Reading

The End of Nature
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
Deep Economy
Fight Global Warming Now
Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance

Kevin Young
  • Poetry
Krista Tippett
  • Journalism, Podcast, Theology
Katherine Paterson
  • Children, Young Adult
Mitali Perkins
  • Children, Fiction, Young Adult
Min Jin Lee
  • Fiction
Luci Shaw
  • Poetry, Publishing, Spirituality
Kate DiCamillo
  • Children, Young Adult
Gary D. Schmidt
  • Children, Fiction, Young Adult
Nikki Grimes
  • Art, Children, Fiction, Illustration, Music, Photography, Poetry, Spirituality, Stage, Young Adult
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
  • Children, Graphic Novel, Illustration, Memoir, Young Adult
Anthony Doerr
  • Fiction
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