09/22/2026
Tickets are on sale now to see two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead (in conversation with Jennifer Wilks) and bestselling investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe (in conversation with Tony Plohetski) at the 2026 Texas Book Festival.
🔗Purchase tickets at Texasbookfestival.org/events.
This year, two ticket options are available: A $36 ticket grants you admission to the author’s session plus a copy of the author’s pre-signed book, which you will receive on-site before the events begin. A $5 ticket grants you general admission to the author’s session, without a book. Copies of Cool Machine and London Falling will also be available for purchase in the BookPeople Sales Tent.
ℹ️ Colson Whitehead • Nov. 14 • 12:15 PM • First Baptist Church of Austin
ℹ️ Patrick Radden Keefe • Nov. 14 • 3:45 PM • First Baptist Church of Austin
Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twelve works of fiction and nonfiction and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City. Cool Machine is an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy.
Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rogues, Empire of Pain (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize), and Say Nothing, which received a National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of the Twenty Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Book Review. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award, and the Orwell Prize. He served as an executive producer on the award-winning FX series Say Nothing. London Falling is a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the dangerous criminal underworld that lies beneath London’s glittering surface.
