After nearly 20 years working in economic policy, Heather McGhee realized she needed a different approach to understand the fault lines of American division.

Fiction readers can be glad that Deesha Philyaw’s oldest daughter had trouble napping.

Sadeqa Johnson has always written stories about subjects she knows well, but the story of Yellow Wife called to her on a different level — one she was not familiar with.

Elizabeth Kolbert won a Pulitzer Prize for her bestseller, The Sixth Extinction, and is a staff writer at The New Yorker. In her new book, Under a White Sky, The Nature of the Future, she looks at man’s manipulation of the natural world as it relates to the climate crisis.

Cecilia Kang is a reporter for the New York Times, covering the technology field where short and informative sentences are often the norm. Co-writing An Ugly Truth gave the author the opportunity to explore a different kind of writing, one that she missed.

Starting Thursday and running through Sunday, the Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival 2021 Summer Series once again invites book lovers to unite to hear the story, or stories, behind the story of how a book gets written.