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The Boston Book Festival (BBF) is an independent nonprofit group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also the name of its main event. The nonprofit was founded in 2009 by Deborah Z Porter, and aims to "celebrate the power of words to stimulate, agitate, unite, delight, and inspire by holding year-round events culminating in an annual, free Festival that promotes a culture of reading and ideas and enhances the vibrancy of our city". The annual book festival combines a street festival with an array of authors and other literary presenters from around the world. Daytime events at the BBF are free. In 2014, 32,000 people attended. Throughout the year, BBF hosts several literary events, several of which fall under their annual "Lounge Lit" series of literary outings, such as readings, cookbook author demos, and an annual literary pub trivia night. Since 2011, BBF has also hosted evening “kick-off” activities leading up to the Saturday festival. Annual festival The Festival is held each October in Boston's Back Bay. Speaker presentations have taken place in the Boston Public Library, Church of the Covenant, Old South Church, Trinity Church, and Back Bay Events Center, among other locations in and around Copley Square. The street festival is hosted on Copley Square, and usually includes a live music stage, dozens of exhibitors and vendors, and many free participatory activities for attendees and their families. This includes programming and activities for children, writing workshops and contests, and open mic opportunities. 2009 The inaugural festival on October 24, 2009, included more than seventy-five authors, including Ken Burns, Anita Diamant, Andre Dubus III, Tom Perrotta, Alicia Silverstone, and John Hodgman. Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk delivered the keynote address in the sanctuary of Old South Church to over 1000 festival-goers. Popular sessions were “Ties That Bind” (featuring Elinor Lipman, Richard Russo, and Michael Thomas), “Power of Place” (featuring Anita Diamant, Elizabeth Nunez, Carolina De Robertis, and Anita Shreve), and "The Obama Year", featuring Jack Beatty, David Gergan, Lani Guinier, and Michael E. Porter. 2010 In 2010, the festival, held on October 16, included 130 authors and over forty sessions, with presenters including Bill Bryson, Food Network star Tyler Florence, Boston novelist Dennis Lehane, Nobel Prize winners Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, and surgeon and journalist Atul Gawande. Featured sessions included: “Bugs in the System” (featuring Dan Ariely and Mark Moffett), “Pop Culture” (featuring Lisa Birnbach, Chip Kidd, and David Rakoff), “Talking About Justice” (featuring Dambisa Moyo, Michael Sandel, and Amartya Sen), and “From Page to Screen” featuring A. M. Homes, Dennis Lehane, and Tom Perrotta. The kids' keynote speaker was Diary of a Wimpy Kid creator Jeff Kinney. Joyce Carol Oates closed the festival with a standing-room-only keynote address in the Trinity Church sanctuary. Attendance at BBF 2010 was 24,000, doubling the size of the crowd from the first year. This year's festival also celebrated the start of a new literary outreach program: One City One Story. This initiative encouraged the greater Boston community to read and discuss a piece of literary fiction by making it readily available. 2011 The 2011 festival took place on October 15 and was similar in size to the 2010 festival. Large crowds filed in to hear talks such as: "Far Out Fiction" (featuring Gregory Maguire, Karen Russell, Chuck Klosterman, and Kate Beaton), “A Reason to Lead” (featuring Governor Deval Patrick), “Graphic Novels” (featuring Daniel Clowes, Seth, and Alison Bechdel), and “Frontiers of Science” featuring Stephen Greenblatt, Lisa Randall, Siddhartha Mukherjee. Mo Willems was the kids' keynote speaker, and Michael Ondaatje delivered the festival-closing keynote, both presenting to several hundred attendees at the Back Bay Events Center's John Hancock Hall. The festival kicked off on Friday, October 14, with a special session called "The Art of The Wire", featuring a discussion with actors and writers of the acclaimed HBO television series. 2012 In 2012, the festival was on October 27, and it boasted an array of speakers, including Junot Diaz, Chip Kidd, and Hanna Rosin. Lemony Snicket was the kids' keynote speaker, and the ticketed evening keynote featured Richard Ford, interviewed by Claire Messud. Popular sessions were "The Brain: Thinking About Thinking" (featuring Eric Kandel and Ray Kurzweil), “Serious Satire” (featuring Lizz Winstead, Kevin Bleyer, and Baratunde Thurston), "Fiction: Time and Place" (featuring Dennis Lehane, Tayari Jones, and Alex Gilvarry), and “YA: The Future Is Now" featuring M. T. Anderson, Rachel Cohn, Cory Doctorow, and Gabrielle Zevin. The 2012 kickoff event was called "Page to Screen", which featured authors whose works had been adapted for film and television, including Buzz Bissinger, Rachel Cohn, Andre Dubus III, Nick Flynn, and Daniel Handler. In 2012 the festival launched a new program called BBF Unbound, in which community members were invited to submit proposals for sessions. In 2012, two proposals were accepted and subsequently developed and presented at the BBF: "Writing the War" and "Books Behind Bars". 2013 The fifth annual festival was held October 17–19. The festival kicked off on October 17 with an evening session entitled “Writing Terror: An Exploration of Fear”, which featured Wes Craven, Mary Louise Kelly, Jessica Stern, and Valerie Plame Wilson in a discussion moderated by Joe Klein. The first-ever kids' kickoff event, on the afternoon of October 18, featured Newbery Medalists Kate DiCamillo, Jack Gantos, and Rebecca Stead. Keynote speaker Salman Rushdie spoke to a sellout crowd at Old South Church on the evening of October 18. Other notable presenters included Paul Harding, Ty Burr, Chuck Klosterman, Clifford Ross, and kids' keynote speaker Tomie dePaola. “Synthetic Biology: Designing Life” (featuring Emily Anthes, Juan Enriquez, and Craig Venter); “Dirty, Crazy, Endless Love” (featuring Nicholson Baker, Andre Dubus III, and Jamie Quatro); “The Rise and Fall of Nations” (featuring Noah Feldman and James Robinson); and “Our Boston” (featuring Mike Barnicle, Madeleine Blais, Leigh Montville, and Lesley Visser) were some of the largest presentations. 2014 The 2014 festival took place on October 23–25. Herbie Hancock, the memoir keynote speaker, started off the festival Thursday evening as he discussed his life and musical times with Berklee College of Music president Roger Brown. The following night, fiction keynote speaker Susan Minot joined Nigerian-American journalist Dayo Olopade in a conversation about Minot's latest novel Thirty Girls. Saturday's festivities began with kids’ keynote speaker Rick Riordan filling Trinity Church to capacity with fans young and old of his Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. There were over 150 notable presenters at the 2014 festival with panels such as “Tech.... Discover the Kaitlin Solimine popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Kaitlin Solimine books.