The Savannah Book Festival is a literary festival held each February in Savannah, Georgia, and features authors as well as educational events.
In the past, the festival has hosted best-selling authors Stephen King, James Patterson and David Baldacci, Pulitzer Prize winners Garry Wills, Geraldine Brooks and Isabel Wilkerson, National Book Award winner Ben Fountain, and Nobel Prize laureate Al Gore.
On Feb. 15, 2013, thriller writer James Patterson delivered the keynote address.
[1] On Feb. 17, 2013, political novelist David Baldacci delivered the closing address.
[2] Other 2013 authors included: Publishers Weekly, the publishing industry's leading trade magazine, noted that the Savannah Book Festival "is carving a space for itself among the book festival big leagues.