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Noon-12:45 Sarah Vowell was a longtime contributing editor for NPR's "This American Life." She is the author of "Radio On: A Listener's Diary" and the essay collections "Take the Cannoli" and "The Partly Cloudy Patriot." Her most recent book is "Lafayette in the Somewhat United States."Signing at 1:30.

1-1:45 Candice Millard is a former writer and editor for National Geographic magazine. She is the author of "The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey" and "The Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President." Her new book is "Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill." She will be in conversation with Jonathan Yardley, a former book critic for The Washington Post. Signing at 2:30.

2-2:45 Katherine Paterson is an author best known for her children's books, including "Bridge to Terabithia" and "The Great Gilly Hopkins." She has won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. In 2010 and 2011, she was the Library of Congress's National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Her latest book is the memoir "Stories of My Life." Signing at 5.

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4-4:45 Margo Jefferson, a former theater and book critic for Newsweek and the New York Times, won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Jefferson's first book was "On Michael Jackson." Her latest is "Negroland," which won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She is a professor of writing at Columbia University. She will be in conversation with Marcia Davis, an editor at The Washington Post Magazine. Signing at 5:30.

5-5:45 Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He is the author of more than 20 books, including "The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast," which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and "Cronkite," which received the Sperber Prize for Best Book in Journalism. His most recent work is "Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America." Signing at 6:30.

6-6:45 Joby Warrick,a reporter for The Washington Post, is the author of "The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA" and of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS." In 1996, his work contributed to the awarding of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service to the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer. Signing at 4.

7-7:45 A discussion about " 'Most Blessed of the Patriarchs': Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination," by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf, moderated by Melissa Block from NPR. Gordon-Reed, a professor of law and history at Harvard University, received a Pulitzer Prize for her 2009 book, "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family." She is also the author of "Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy" and the editor of "Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History." Onuf is a professor emeritus at the University of Virginia and a co-host of the radio show "BackStory With the American History Guys." His books include "The Mind of Thomas Jefferson," "Nations, Markets and War: Modern History and the American Civil War" and "Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood." Both authors signing at 5.

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8-8:45 Stacy Schiff is the author of the biography "Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)," which won a Pulitzer Prize, and "Saint-Exupéry: A Biography," which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Schiff's "A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America" won the 2006 George Washington Book Prize. Schiff received a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her latest book is "The Witches: Salem, 1692." Signing at 6.

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