Southern Festival of Books celebrates 25 years

We take a look back at some of its memorable moments

5:12 AM, Oct. 6, 2013
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There was a former president, plentiful Pulitzer Prize winners and whiskey at the very first Southern Festival of Books.

An article written by Washington Post staff writer Eve Zibart said the inaugural festival, held on an October weekend in 1989, "blazed up like the summers of childhood." It drew 35,000 Southerners who "spent three days indoors, intent on and finally intoxicated by the words and rhythms and reminiscences of more than 120 authors at the first annual Southern Festival of Books."

"This has been a book town since the late 1700s, when the first publishers set up shop," the ...

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