The Library of Congress hosted its 24th annual National Book Festival at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Saturday.
The yearly free literary festival was founded in 2001 by then-First Lady Laura Bush and Library of Congress Librarian James Billington and regularly draws in hundreds of thousands of people to attend lectures by bestselling authors, illustrators and poets. This year’s festival featured poet Sandra Cisneros — who wrote “The House on Mango Street” — as well as children’s novelist James Patterson and actor Max Greenfield, who starred as Schmidt in “New Girl.”
