Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen tells Lianna about her travel memoir, Imagined London, at the National Book Festival, October 9, 2004

Joyce Carol Oates signs for Lianna, National Book Festival, Washington, D.C., October 9, 2004

Lianna gets goosebumps meeting best-selling children's author R. L. Stine at the National Book Festival, October 9, 2004

Mystery author Dana Stabenow shares secrets of successful writing with Lianna, National Book Festival, October 9, 2004

Lianna enjoys a few moments with Christopher Paul Curtis, author of Bud, Not Buddy, National Book Festival, Washington, D.C., October 9, 2004

Lianna gets to know the 2001 Outstanding Chef in America, Patrick O'Connell, National Book Festival, October 9, 2004

Civil rights pioneer and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner Dorothy Height shares her memories with Lianna, National Book Festival, October 9, 2004

Lianna catches up on the news with Jim Lehrer, National Book Festival, Washington, D.C., October 9, 2004

Author, artist, poet, and journalist Marijo Moore talks with Lianna about North Carolina Indians, National Book Festival, October 9, 2004

Noted poet Natasha Trethewey chats with Lianna at the National Book Festival, Washington, D.C., Octrober 9, 2004

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2007

Children's illustrator and artist Floyd Cooper signs Lianna's poster, which he illustrated for the National Book Festival, October 9, 2004

Travel authority Arthur Frommer talks about the Peruvian Andes with Lianna, National Book Festival, October 9, 2004

Cokie Roberts discusses the 2nd Bush-Kerry Debate with Lianna, National Book Festival, October 9, 2004

Best selling biographer Douglas Brinkley shares his views on John Kerry at the National Book Festival, Washington, D.C., October 9, 2004

Lianna welcomes the new Poet Laureate of the United States, Ted Kooser, at the National Book Festival, Washington, D.C., October 9, 2004

Kooser also won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi spin a Spiderwick Chronicle for Lianna at the National Book Festival, October 9, 2004

Newberry Medalist author Richard Peck shows Lianna his latest book at the National Book Festival, October 9, 2004

Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason describe how they researched their novel, The Rule of Four, to Lianna, National Book Festival, October 9, 2004