Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz, Honorary Chair

Johnny Temple, Akashic Books, Council Chair

Carolyn Greer, Executive Director, Best of Brooklyn, Inc.
Director, Public Events, Special Projects & Tourism,
Office of the Brooklyn Borough President

Liz Koch, Arts and Culture Specialist,Office of the Brooklyn Borough President

Brooklyn Book Festival 2008 Programming

Fiction               Johnny Temple, Chair
Non-Fiction        Emily Takoudes, Chair
Poetry               Mary Gannon, Chair
Youth                Jennifer Carlson, Chair

Members

Harold Augenbraum - National Book Foundation
Patrik Henry Bass - Essence Magazine
Jennifer Carlson - Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency
Colin Channer - Calabash Literary Festival
Eric Demby - Brooklyn Flea
Adriana Dominguez - Rayo/HarperCollins
Mary Gannon - Poets & Writers Magazine
Brenda Greene - Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College
Theodore Hamm - The Brooklyn Rail
Jay Kaplan - Brooklyn Public Library
Marcela Landres - Publisher, Latinidad
Jeffrey Lependorf - Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
Winfrida Mbewe - W.W. Norton & Company
Patricia Mulcahy - Tillie’s Café, Brooklyn Books
Zoe Pagnamenta - PFD New York Literary Agency
Greg Polvere - Global Talent Associates
Peter Rothberg - The Nation
Danny Simmons - Danny Simmons' Corridor Gallery
Paul Slovak - Viking-Penguin
Rob Spillman - Tin House Press
Emily Takoudes - Ecco
Kate Travers - Literary Ventures Fund

Brooklyn Book Festival Honorary Committee

Paul Auster - author, Smoke, Mr Vertigo, Timbuktu, New York Trilogy, Book of Illusions.
Kyle Baker - graphic novelist, Nat Turner, King David, Why I Hate Saturn
Edwidge Danticat - author, The Dew Breaker, Vale of Tears: A Novel From Haiti
Jennifer Egan - author, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus, The Keep
Dave Eggers - author, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; founder, McSweeney's
Jonathan Safran Foer - author, Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Pete Hamill - author, The Gift, Downtown: My Manhattan, The Guns of Heaven
Siri Hustvedt - author, What I Loved, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
Nicole Krauss - author, The History of Love
Jhumpa Lahiri - author, The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies
Spike Lee - filmmaker, Inside Man, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Bamboozled
Jonathan Lethem - author, The Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn, Girl in Landscape
Rick Moody - author, Demonology, Purple America, The Ice Storm, Garden State
Rosie Perez - actress, Do the Right Thing, White Men Can't Jump, Fearless
Carl Hancock Rux - author, playwright, Asphalt, Talk
Maurice Sendak - author, Where the Wild Things Are; In the Night Kitchen
Russell Simmons - activist and entertainment mogul; founder, Def Jam, Hip Hop Action Summit
Colson Whitehead - author, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt