UPCOMING EVENTS

Tayari Jones
Sun July 12 - 7pm
MV Performing Arts Center
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Join us for a special evening with TIME100 honoree and award-winning novelist Tayari Jones in conversation with acclaimed journalist Michele Norris.

Tayari Jones

Michele Norris

Jill Biden
Thur July 16 - 7pm
MV Performing Arts Center
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A candid conversation with Jill Biden about her White House years and new memoir, View From the East Wing, in discussion with Sunny Hostin, ABC News Legal Analyst and co-host of The View.

Presenting an Outstanding
2026 Martha’s Vineyard Author Series!

Featuring some of the country’s leading voices in literature, culture and politics. Author talks run throughout the summer beginning on Saturday June 6 and continuing through July and August.

All events begin at 7pm, unless otherwise noted

Sponsorship packages are available now. A sponsorship guarantees your place at every event — no waiting for ticket sales, confirmed reserved front section seating, and a signed copy of each featured book. Sponsors are essential to bringing some of the most influential voices in politics, culture, and literature to the island — and to continuing the tradition of a free Martha's Vineyard Book Festival in alternating years. Be a part of it. *Tickets to Christin Geall are not included in Sponsorship packages.

Introducing the 2026 Authors

Introducing the 2026 Books

MV Book Festival/ MV Author Series is now on Goodreads. See all of the featured books back through 2017, follow us, track your reading, support our authors, connect with other readers. Fun!