The Pebble Beach Authors & Ideas Festival is an annual book festival organized by the Carmel Ideas Foundation. The three-day long event is held in September at Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California, and it hosts over 30 award-winning authors and speakers such as Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners, authors of New York Times bestsellers, and winners of other prestigious literary awards and today’s most admired minds, such as former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, author Carl Hiaasen, marine archaeologist Bob Ballard, columnist Dave Barry, and others. The festival is organized into a series of presentations followed by discussions on diverse contemporary topics as well as book-signings in local book stores.

P.O. Box 509, Pebble Beach, CA 93953, Phone: 831-626-6243

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