For the fifth annual New Orleans Guide Pageant, Tulane College has introduced its 2026 authors, with a large ranging lineup, together with Ken Burns, Deepak Chopra, MD, and Jeff Koons.
Finest-selling authors will embrace Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Roxane Homosexual, Wally Lamb and Salman Rushdie. Audio system from the New Orleans culinary world may also be featured, together with Edgar “Dook” Chase IV, John Currence, Emeril Lagasse, E.J. Lagasse, Alon Shaya and Arvinder Vilkhu. From the world of politics Stacey Abrams, John Bel Edwards and Mitch Landrieu may also be featured.
The occasion might be held March 12-15 on Tulane’s uptown campus and is free to the general public.
“This 12 months marks a serious milestone for the New Orleans Guide Pageant at Tulane College,” Tulane President Michael A. Fitts mentioned in a information launch. “In simply 5 years, the pageant has turn out to be one of many nation’s most dynamic and impactful celebrations of literature and concepts, bringing readers, writers and households collectively to share tales, spark discovery and expertise the enjoyment of partaking the world by the written phrase.”
The pageant is described in a information launch as “a unprecedented lineup of writer classes, panels and household programming, with alternatives for attendees to fulfill authors, take part thought-provoking discussions and discover the ability of storytelling.”
The pageant will open on Thursday, March 12 with a night keynote session, adopted by full days of panels and writer conversations Friday and Saturday.
For 2026 Household Day, the Fest will transfer from its normal Saturday spot to Sunday, March 15 as a technique to shut out the occasion. Household Day options readings from youngsters’s guide authors, costumed characters, crafts and neighborhood literacy companions.
The 2026 pageant is co-chaired by Cheryl Landrieu, writer and former New Orleans First Woman, and Walter Isaacson, bestselling biographer and the Leonard A. Lauder Professor of American Historical past and Values in Tulane’s College of Liberal Arts. The pageant additionally welcomes again Gayle Benson, proprietor of the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans, as honorary co-chair.
“It’s an honor to host such an distinctive gathering of thinkers, storytellers and innovators,” added Walter Isaacson. “This 12 months’s lineup displays the most effective of what the pageant has turn out to be— a dynamic discussion board the place concepts meet creativeness and readers have interaction with the world’s main voices.”
For registration and extra data on the New Orleans Guide Pageant at Tulane College, go to bookfest.tulane.edu.
