Book Festival Kickoff: Casey McQuiston
2026-04-09 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Elliott University Center Auditorium, 507 Stirling Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
DAY 1: Casey McQuiston
Thursday, April 9, 2026
7:00 PM
Elliott University Center
Free and open to all
Regisration is required. Please click here to register.
Casey McQuiston will appear at the 2026 Greensboro Bound Book Festival, April 9–11, as part of American Kaleidoscope, a celebration of diverse voices and stories.
The main festival takes place April 11, and we are thrilled to kick it off with a special event featuring #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston, presented in partnership with UNCG University Libraries. McQuiston will appear at the Elliott University Center on Thursday, April 9, 2026.
McQuiston is the author of Red, White & Royal Blue, One Last Stop, I Kissed Shara Wheeler, and The Pairing. Their sharp, funny, and heartfelt stories explore love, identity, and contemporary life, an essential piece of our American mosaic.
The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please click here to register.

Day 2: Alice Martin
2026-04-10 17:30 - 19:30 | Scuppernong Books, 304 S Elm Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401
DAY 2: Alice Martin
Friday, April 10, 2026
5:30 PM
Scuppernong Books
Free and open to all
Alice Martin will appear at the 2026 Greensboro Bound Book Festival as part of American Kaleidoscope, a celebration of diverse voices and stories taking place April 9–11 in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Westward Women, Martin’s debut novel, weaves together the stories of women seeking freedom and selfhood in an unsettled America, capturing a portrait of a nation defined not by one story, but by many. An assistant professor of English studies at Western Carolina University, she received her PhD in American Literature from Rutgers University. Her writing has appeared in the Carolina Quarterly, Appalachian Heritage, Triangle House Review, and elsewhere.
Presented in partnership with Scuppernong Books.

2026 Book Festival
2026-04-11 | Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N DAVIE STREET, Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
The 2026 Greensboro Bound Book Festival returns April 9–11 with American Kaleidoscope, a celebration of diverse voices, ideas, and stories across our community.
As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, we will spotlight authors and conversations that reflect the strength of our diversity. Like the shifting patterns inside a kaleidoscope, countless individual perspectives will come together to create something new and compelling with every turn. In true Greensboro Bound fashion, we will explore complex issues through respectful dialogue and thoughtful reflection.
The Full Day Festival will be held on April 11 at the Greensboro Cultural Center.
FEATURED AUTHORS INCLUDE:
IMANI PERRY
SILAS HOUSE
BETH MACY
+ MORE
CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.

An Evening with Morgan Radford
2026-05-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Avenue, GREENSBORO, NC, 27401, United States
A BONUS BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT!
Friday, May 8 | 6:00 PM
Greensboro History Museum
Free and open to all
Greensboro native and NBC News anchor Morgan Radford returns home to celebrate her debut novel, Now Then. Presented by Greensboro Bound in partnership with the Greensboro Public Library, the Greensboro Public Library Foundation, and Scuppernong Books, this special evening highlights Radford’s transition from award-winning journalist to fiction author.
Now Then interweaves the lives of a mother and daughter. One comes of age at Harvard in the 1990s, while the other confronts revolution and resilience in 1950s Havana. As secrets unfold through a series of letters, Radford crafts a powerful narrative about hidden histories, second chances, and the choices and loves that shape our lives.
Radford’s compelling fiction debut draws from elements of her personal life, professional background, and the history of her family’s migration from Jamaica and Cuba. An award-winning journalist whose reporting has spanned foreign policy, U.S. political movements, and major national news, Radford calls this novel “one of the richest, most rewarding endeavors of my lifetime.”
Radford is an anchor for NBC News and co-host of NBC News Daily. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Journalism School, and a former Fulbright Scholar, she has received multiple awards for her reporting featured on TODAY, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, and Telemundo. With Now Then, she brings emotional depth and journalistic rigor to a moving work of literary fiction that is already being celebrated for its power, tenderness, and resonance.

Christina Baker Kline
2026-06-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Well-Spring Retirement Community – Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre, 4100 Well Spring Drive, Greensboro, NC, 27410
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Christina Baker Kline: The Foursome
Thursday, June 4
4:00 PM
The Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre | Well-Spring, A Kintura Life Plan Community
Free and open to all
Meet New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline, as she discusses her new novel, The Foursome, a sweeping work of historical fiction inspired by the true story of Chang and Eng Bunker, the world-famous conjoined twins who settled in North Carolina and married sisters Adelaide and Sarah Yates. Set in the Blue Ridge foothills during the turbulent years surrounding the Civil War, the novel explores love, identity, family, and the complicated bonds that tie people together in extraordinary circumstances.
A reception will follow the program, along with an author book signing. To ensure we have food for everyone, please register for this free event below.
Presented in partnership with Well-Spring, A Kintura Life Plan Community.

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