Tucson Festival of Books

National Book Foundation Presents: Truth-Seeking, Truth Telling


Join these 2025 National Book Award nonfiction honorees Caleb Gayle, Julia Ioffe and Claudia Rowe for for readings and a conversation about how a background in journalism informs their approach to storytelling. The moderated will be Ruth Dickey, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation.


Panelists
Caleb Gayle

Caleb Gayle is an award-winning journalist and the author of "We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power." A professor at Northeastern University, he is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine....

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Julia Ioffe

Julia Ioffe is a Russian-born American journalist whose articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Republic, Politico, and The Atlantic....

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Claudia Rowe

National Book Award finalist, Claudia Rowe has been writing about places where youth and government clash since the early 1990s. She is the recipient of a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism and multiple honors for investigative reporting....

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Books:
Wards of the State
The Long Shadow of American Foster Care
Claudia Rowe
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Abrams, Incorporated
May 2025
ISBN 9781419763151
304 pages
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Motherland
A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
Julia Ioffe
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
HarperCollins Publishers
March 2025
ISBN 9780062879127
512 pages
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Black Moses
A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State
Caleb Gayle
History / Biography
Penguin Group
August 2025
ISBN 9780593543795
304 pages
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