Join us for the 10th Annual The Literary Festival!!

Amherst College will host the 10th annual LitFest, a literary festival celebrating fiction, nonfiction, poetry, spoken-word performance, and the College's extraordinary literary life. Guest speakers include award-winning author Teju Cole; Pulitzer Prize winner Brandon Som; Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic; and a special panel on the making of American Fiction with writer and director Cord Jefferson, lead actor Jeffrey Wright '87, and Percival Everett, author of Erasure, the novel upon which the film is based.

Schedule of Events:

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Film Screening: American Fiction - Keefe Campus Center
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm: The Making of American Fiction: Jeffrey Wright '87, Percival Everett, and Cord Jefferson in Conversation with President Michael A. Elliott

Remarks by Jennifer Acker '00
In partnership with the Jones Library