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Rancho Mirage Writers Festival A Celebration of the Written Word The Rancho Mirage Writers Festival is an annual celebration of writers, books, readers, and ideas!

The City of Rancho Mirage, California will welcome authors and readers to the Rancho Mirage Public Library from February 1-3, 2023. Writers will talk about their books, their source of ideas, and the mechanics of writing for publication.

10/20/2026

đź‘‘ Imagine ruling an empire while standing in a forest of the patriarchy.

Author Daisy Goodwin shares her perspective on Queen Victoria’s early reign, reflecting on what it may have felt like to be a young, petite woman surrounded by older, more powerful men determined to tell her what to do.

Hear more conversations like this at the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival.

Belle Burden is an author, attorney and New York City native. Her debut memoir, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, debuted...
10/19/2026

Belle Burden is an author, attorney and New York City native. Her debut memoir, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. The book received a New York Times Editors’ Choice designation and was ranked number four on Amazon’s Best Books of 2026 So Far. Strangers recounts the collapse of Burden’s 20-year marriage and its aftermath in five acts. Burden’s memoir was based on her popular New York Times Modern Love essay “Was I Married to a Stranger?”

She was a child of privilege, the daughter of Carter Burden, a Vanderbilt descendant and media executive, and Amanda Burden, the daughter of Babe Paley and an influential urban planner. During COVID lockdown, Burden’s husband of 20 years abruptly requested a divorce after a stranger revealed his affair, isolating her with three children. Overnight, her caring, steady partner became a man she hardly recognized. He exited his life with her like an actor shrugging off a costume. In Strangers, Burden revisits her marriage, searching for clues that her husband was not who she always thought he was. As she examines her relationship through a new lens, she reckons with her own family history and the lessons she intuited about how a woman is expected to behave in the face of betrayal. The memoir has struck a chord with readers married and divorced alike, who recognize the danger signs in Burden’s love story. Look for Gwyneth Paltrow's upcoming film adaptation of Strangers for Netflix. This will be Burden’s first appearance at RMWF.

10/15/2026

Pamela Harriman always wanted to be in the room where it happened and she made sure she earned her place there. 🚪✨ Sonia Purnell, author of Kingmaker, shares how Harriman broke into 20th-century politics at a time when women simply weren't let in. Charm may have opened the door, but preparation is what kept her in the room.

10/13/2026

History is at its most honest when it embraces complexity. Ken Burns

Seth Wickersham is among the greatest sportswriters of his generation and one of the most accomplished journalists worki...
10/13/2026

Seth Wickersham is among the greatest sportswriters of his generation and one of the most accomplished journalists working today. Throughout his career, he has taken readers not only inside the psyches of the biggest-name athletes but also into the most secretive boardrooms where executives and team owners shape the games that fans love. A natural storyteller and fan of sport, Wickersham travels across the globe to find masterful new ways of seeing what’s on our TV screens and getting inside the minds of those we idolize, revile but, most of all, can’t look away from. Wickersham is the author of American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback, an inside look at the drama, demands, sacrifice and glory that comes with playing quarterback.

Wickersham’s latest book, Be On That Hill: Stories from the Summits of Sports, is now available. Every day in America, men and women take to fields of competition ready to risk everything for a chance to make their dreams come true. They will suffer physically, emotionally, mentally—all for that moment when they might overcome the odds and become legendary. Be On That Hill features stories from within the NFL about Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, Sean McVay, Deion Sanders, the league itself and many, many more. The collection includes unexpected stories about Kobe Bryant, Alex Honnold, the creation of “We Will Rock You,” globalization vs. local fandom, improvisation vs. planning, the role of violence in games, the toxic relationship between a NASCAR racer and his girlfriend (who claimed to be a government assassin) and whether climbing that hill of achievement day after day gives athletes what they really want.

A perfect companion to his American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback, this new anthology features Wickersham’s probing profiles, epic investigations and personal columns. This will be Wickersham’s first appearance at RMWF.

10/08/2026

Meenakshi Ahamed, author of Indian Genius, breaking down why Indian professionals are reshaping Silicon Valley 🚀 From founding startups to leading them — Indians make up roughly a third of Silicon Valley's CEOs and startup founders, and they're at the forefront of the AI revolution. At the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, Ahamed unpacks the ingenuity, drive, and legacy behind this remarkable rise. 🎤📚

10/06/2026

"She won't have me but I'll have her." Edward O'Keefe shares a glimpse into the loves of Theodore Roosevelt.

Canadian-born author Emily St. John Mandel burst onto the literary scene in 2009 with her debut novel, Last Night in Mon...
10/05/2026

Canadian-born author Emily St. John Mandel burst onto the literary scene in 2009 with her debut novel, Last Night in Montreal. She is now an award-winning, bestselling author of seven novels, including The Glass Hotel, Sea of Tranquility and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was included in The New York Times “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” list. Her work has been translated into 37 languages and adapted for television.

Mandel’s latest book, Exit Party, is now available. Known for novels that blend literary and speculative fiction, Mandel explores nostalgia, civilization and how art is a vital part of survival. Exit Party is a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State—searches for answers. As Ari Waker unravels the mystery of this inexplicable night, Exit Party unfurls a story that takes us from a future America splintered by civil war to the seaside cliffs of Greece where weapons dealers hide in an elegant resort and from the domed city of Paris to a colony on the moon. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own and a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change. This will be Mandel’s first appearance at RMWF.

10/01/2026

There's nothing more satisfying than an underestimated woman proving everyone wrong.

09/29/2026

Looking back, it feels apocalyptic. Living through it, it was just another day's paper. Graham Moore

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