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Barbara Wansbrough
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Ada Limón
Gary Shteyngart
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Rick Atkinson
Derek Thompson
Ilyon Woo
David Gelles
Ken Burns
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Get ready for #SVWC2026! 🎉 Join us this summer in @sunvalley, for an unforgettable three-day literary celebration. From July 18–20, readers and writers from around the world will gather at the 32nd annual Sun Valley Writers` Conference to honor today’s most compelling voices—including iconic documentarian Ken Burns, Harvard historian Jill Lepore, British nature writer Robert Macfarlane, Susan Orlean, Atul Gawande, Beth Macy, Amor Towles, and many more.
As we approach our nation’s 250th anniversary, the 2026 theme, “Currents of Change,” invites us to explore important questions: What forces shape our writers’ work? What changes have shaped, and are shaping, our country and world? And what role does literature play in helping us navigate them? Join us as we consider how stories both reflect and drive the political, social, and technological currents of our time, helping us understand both where we’ve been… and where we’re headed.
PASSES ON SALE FEBRUARY 24. See the full line-up and learn more about pass sales at svwc.com.
In this episode, recorded live at #SVWC2025, Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most acclaimed and beloved historians, chronicles her and her late husband Richard’s experiences working with Presidents Kennedy and Johnson during the tumultuous 1960s, using personal archives to explore pivotal moments and their own relationship. Her bestselling book, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s,” offers an intimate, up-close look at figures like JFK, LBJ, and RFK, weaving together their personal lives with major events like the Civil Rights Movement. But the heart of this wonderful, deeply moving memoir is unquestionably the enduring bond of mutual love and respect between husband and wife across the decades, a bond that embraces their differences as much as their similarities. “Dick was more interested in shaping history,” Doris has said, “and I in figuring out how history was shaped.”
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– Nayantara Roy, SVWC 2025 Presenter & New Voices Fellow