Ave (age 11) and Fiona (7) Jones of Arlington Va. hold their books just signed by author Melissa de la Cruz 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. (Photo by Jeff Malet)
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)
