Please join us for the 2022 History Book Festival Keynote Address featuring Buzz Bissinger, author of The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II (HarperCollins, 2022). Bissinger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of several best-selling works of nonfiction, including the New York Times bestseller Three Nights in August and Friday Night Lights, which has sold over two million copies and inspired a film and TV franchise.
A ticket is required to attend this event. Each ticket includes one general admission seat and a signed, hardback copy of The Mosquito Bowl. Please note that tickets are limited.
The Keynote Address is presented by Dogfish Head.
“Here may be the most uniquely fascinating story ever written about World War II. Like the best of Buzz Bissinger, it is about far more than a football game, or even the war. He’s a gifted narrator and prodigious researcher, and in this book his skills are all on display: indelible characters, a bizarre and remarkably distinct setting, action, drama ... a great story told with insight and humor and deep feeling. Do not pass this book by. It is magnificent.” — Mark Bowden, journalist and writer
“Take your pick: This is either the story of the most improbable game of football ever played, an anthem to immigrant America, or a brilliant tribute to an exemplary brotherhood that would be decimated at Okinawa. In every case it’s an indelible account of promising young men hurled into history. Buzz Bissinger has stitched their story together as no one else could, powerfully and seamlessly, offering up a tender–tough tale in his signature high-octane prose.” — Stacy Schiff, biographer and historian
About the Festival
About the Festival
With the help of our presenting sponsors—Delaware Humanities and The Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices I Gallo Realty—as well as our community partners and volunteers, the 2022 History Book Festival will be full of great discussions with authors of newly published narrative nonfiction and historical fiction. Our Keynote Address is presented by Dogfish Head and our Closing Address is presented by Joe and Debbie Schell.
Special thanks to Lewes Public Library for assistance with event promotion and venue; to Browseabout Books in Rehoboth, our official bookseller; and to the Cape Gazette, our media partner.