Featured Keynote Tayari Jones Author of An American Marriage:

• Oprah Book Club Selection

• Obama’s Best of 2018 roundup

• Women’s Prize for Fiction

• NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Fiction

“It’s among Tayari’s many gifts that she can touch us soul to soul with her words.”
—Oprah Winfrey

“Jones writes dialogue that is realistic and sparkling, with an intuitive sense of how much to reveal and when.”
—The Washington Post

“A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple”
—Barack Obama