At the Virginia Festival of the Book, the Foundation will take center stage with four celebrated writers in conversation. The program will feature 2018 National Book Award Finalists Leslie Connor (Young People’s Literature, The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle), Diana Khoi Nguyen (Poetry, Ghost Of), Rebecca Makkai (Fiction, The Great Believers), and Sarah Smarsh (Nonfiction, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth).