NHBF Author: Winsome Bingham

Winsome Bingham is an award-winning author of books for children including ON FRIDAYS, illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Jason Griffin. Her books have been chosen as JLG Selections, NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Recommended Book, Notable Social Studies Trade Book, Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended Title, Kirkus, Booklist, Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, and multiple libraries' end of the year list. Her debut, SOUL FOOD SUNDAY, was a New York Times Best Book of the Year and the winner of the Connecticut Book Award. Her books center on joy, community, family, empathy, and compassion.

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 2-3, 2026.

NHBF Author: Susan Donovan Bernhard

Susan Donovan Bernhard is a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship recipient, a graduate of the GrubStreet Novel Incubator, and a 2019 Tennessee Williams Scholar to the Sewanee Writers Conference. Her fiction has appeared in Little Bird Stories and Solstice Lit Mag and she is a contributor to Cognoscenti and the blog Dead Darlings. Her debut novel WINTER LOON was an Amazon Bestseller and won the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Prize for Fiction. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, Susan was born and raised in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, is a graduate of the University of Maryland, and lives and writes in Massachusetts. WESTERLY is her second novel.

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 2-3, 2026.

NHBF Author: Rebecca Bendheim

Rebecca Bendheim is a teacher, poet, and author of the middle grade novel WHEN YOU’RE BRAVE ENOUGH and the poetry collection COMING OUT PARTY. She types poems around the country with the Typewriter Rodeo poetry troupe and has recorded radio poems for NPR. A graduate of Vanderbilt University and Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA in Writing for Children, she now lives in Maine with her wife, an orange cat, and a chorgi (chihuahua-corgi) puppy.

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 2-3, 2026.

NHBF Author: Diane Les Becquets

Diane Les Becquets is the author of Breaking Wild and The Last Woman in the Forest. Breaking Wild, an Indie Next Pick and a national bestseller, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist, and was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition. It was the recipient of the Colorado Book Award in Fiction, the New Hampshire Outstanding Work of Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in Fiction.

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 2-3, 2026.

Book of the Week (8/17/2026)

Book Lovers' New England: A Guide to Literary Landmarks by Sheila Moeschen (Globe Pequot Publishing, 2026)

New England is one of the most storied regions of America, home to a host of literary icons. Who were the people behind the pages? Book Lovers' New England answers this question by bringing readers on a fascinating and lively tour of the places and locations that shaped the contributions of authors such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, and more. Structured as an interactive, fascinating compilation of day trips and opportunities to experience regional travel in a new way, the book offers rich literary history of America as centered in New England coupled with sumptuous photography. Book Lover’s New England is a one-of-a-kind literary road trip designed to inspire book lovers, travelers, and anyone curious about the creators behind the creative art.

Book Lovers' will explore primary places associated with New England authors such as homes, estates, museums, and commemorative sites with a descriptive scoop on the surrounding towns and cities that shaped their lives and art. The book will feature interest-worthy locations such as notable bookstores or libraries holding important author papers or manuscripts and each sidebar will be dedicated to famous books set in New England sites and streets—a book lover’s dream! --Publisher's blurb

NHBF Author: M. T. Anderson

New York Times bestselling author M. T. Anderson writes books for children, teens, and adults, including Octavian Nothing: The Pox Party, winner of the National Book Award; Elf Dog & Owl Head, a Newbery Honor book; and Feed, winner of the LA Times Book Prize. His nonfiction book Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad, was a YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction finalist. His most recent book, Nicked, is a historical heist story set in the eleventh century. He lives in New England.

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 2-3, 2026.

NHBF Author: Jeff Kinney

Jeff Kinney is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and
the Awesome Friendly Kid series. He is a six–time Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award winner for
Favorite Book and has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the
World. He spent his childhood in the Washington, DC, area and moved to New England, where
he and his wife own a bookstore named An Unlikely Story.

Jeff Kinney will deliver the Children's Keynote on Friday night and the Family Keynote on Saturday night. Tickets for the Friday night keynote are sold out. Tickets for the Saturday night Family Keynote are on sale now. 

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 2-3, 2026.