Adrian Matejka signs his book "Map to the Stars" for Saoirse, a poet and student of Washington College at the 17th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. on Saturday, September 2, 2017. Adrian Matejka is an award-winning poet and instructor in creative writing at Indiana University in Bloomington. His most recent poetry collection, "Map to the Stars", examines the dream of space travel and its relationship to race and poverty during the Reagan era. (Photo by Jeff Malet)
Karin Slaughter signs posters for Bella Mandanis (age 11) and Lauren Antonik (11) of Ahburn Va. at the 17th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. on Saturday, September 2, 2017. Karin Slaughter is a crime writer whose 17 novels have sold more than 35 million copies in 37 languages. Her most recent novel, "The Good Daughter", is a standalone thriller. (Photo by Jeff Malet)
