The History of the Rancho Mirage Writers’ Festival

First poster of the festival (2014).

600 sessions

300 authors and guests

45 Pulitzer Prizes

38 Guggenheim Fellowships

34 Emmy Awards

17 Golden Globes

14 National Book Awards

8 Bronze Star recipients

8 Grammy Awards

7 James Beard Awards

7 Oscars

6 MacArthur Awards

5 Peabody Awards

4 Booker Prizes

3 American Academy of Arts & Letters Literary Awards

3 Lambda Literary Awards

2 presidential medals of freedom

2 Silver Star Recipients

2 Tony Awards

1 Medal of Honor recipient

1 American Music Director of the Year

1 Sandy Hume Award

Hélène Galen and Jamie Kabler (2015).

Daniel James Brown Autographs (2015).

Kabler welcomes you to the 2016 festival.

Sarah Lewis book, The Rise (2015).

Dave Barry discusses the best. State. Never. (2016).

Lt. Joshua Silver, Lee Child, and Phil Klay (2016).

The first Galante Scholars (2018).

Sunnylands Roundtable attendees (2018).

Colston Whitehead and Danzy Senna (2018).

Tom Hanks (2019).

Linda Fairstein and Scott Turow (2018).

Michael Douglas (2020).

Khoi Le in verbal exchange with connoisseur Tara Westover (2020).

Susan Choi and Jonathan Safran Foer (2023).

Rancho Mirage High School students with David Duchovny (2023).

 Carl Hiaasen and James Patterson (2020).

Musician Tim McGraw (2020).

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