Editor’s Note: Unless otherwise noted, events take place at the JCC Staenberg Family Complex, 2 Millstone Campus Drive. Visit the festival website (below) or call to verify author event details.

MORE INFORMATION

Order tickets online, see full schedule and updates and find out about other author events scheduled during the year: 

www.stljewishbookfestival.org

Ticket hotline: 314-442-3299

 

Sunday, Nov. 1

7 p.m.: Dennis Ross, “Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship From Tuman to Obama”; $40

Monday, Nov. 2

10:30 a.m.: Ilan Stavans “Reclaiming Travel”; $15

1 p.m.: Ronald Balson “Saving Sophie”; $15

7:30 p.m.: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks “Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence”; Free

Tuesday, Nov. 3

1 p.m.: Margaret Lazarus Dean “Leaving Orbit: Notes From the Last Days of American Spaceflight”; $15

7:30 p.m.: Brian Abrams “Party Like a President: True Tales of Inebriation, Lechery, and Mischief from the Oval Office”; $15

 

Wednesday, Nov. 4

1 p.m.: Christopher Noxon “Plus One”; $15

7:30 p.m.: Leigh Steinberg“The Agent: My 40-Year Career Making Deals and Changing the Game”; $20

Thursday, Nov. 5

10:30 a.m.: Bruce Ferber “Cascade Falls”; $15

1 p.m.: Shulem Deen “All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir”; $15

6:45 p.m. (food and shopping reception); 7:45 p.m. (program begins): Women’s Special Event, featuring Janice Kaplan  “The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life”; Kerry Cohen “Spent: Exposing Our Complicated Relationships with Shopping”; and Naomi Ragen “The Devil in Jerusalem”; $22. RSVP required for reception.

Friday, Nov. 6

10:30 a.m.: Chef Rossi “The Raging Skillet”; $15

1 p.m.: Aaron Rezny “Eating Delancey: A Celebration of Jewish Food”; $15

Sunday, Nov. 8

5:30 (group lesson), 7 p.m. concert Concert event in partnership with the St. Louis Symphony: Time to Tango, featuring Cortango Orquesta; Free, no RSVP necessary. Takes place at the 560 Music Center in the University City Loop. Free

Monday, Nov. 9

8 a.m.: Mike Wien “The Specific Edge: How Sustained Effort Wins in Business and Life”; $10

10:30 a.m.:  Elyssa Friedland “Love and Miss Communication”; $15

1 p.m.:  Rebecca Alexander “Not Fade Away”; $15

7:30 p.m.: David Gregory “How’s Your Faith?: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey”; $20

Tuesday, Nov. 10

10:30 a.m.: Ann Israel “Mah Jongg: The Art of the Game”; $15

7:30 p.m.: Community Kristallnacht event Martin Goldsmith “Alex’s Wake: A Voyage of Betrayal and a Journey of Rememberance”; $10

Wednesday, Nov. 11

10:30 a.m.: Home Grown Talent-Missouri’s Own Panel, featuringGail Benick “The Girl Who Was Born That Way”; John Daniels “The Intern”; Dick Weiss & Charles Claggett “Max Starkloff and the Fight for Disability Rights”; $15

1 p.m.: Tess Gerritsen “Playing with Fire”; $15

7:30 p.m.: “A Family Affair with The Kellermans” featuring Jonathan, Faye and Jesse Kellerman; $20

Thursday, Nov. 12

10:30 a.m.: Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz “Does the Soul Survive?: A Jewish Journey to Belief in Afterlife, Past Lives and Living with Purpose”; $15

1 p.m.: Judith Viorst “Wait for Me: And Other Poems About the Irritations and Consolations of a Long Marriage”; $15

7:30 p.m.: Ben Yagoda “The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song”; $15

Sunday, Nov. 15

3 p.m. Saint Louis Ballet performs several works from the company’s repertoire, at the Touhill Performing Arts Center – Lee Theater on the UMSL campus. $18