When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t serving on the Supreme Court, starring in Oscar-nominated documentaries, planking, or inspiring merchandise of varying levels of eyeroll-worthiness, she’s also an author, having written the 2016 book In My Own Words. The justice will discuss that book of essays this summer on the mainstage of the National Book Festival.

RBG, who will be in conversation with NPR’s Nina Totenberg, is the biggest name on the lineup of speakers, most of whom align with the festival’s theme “Explore America’s Changemakers.” It’s part of a yearlong initiative from the Library of Congress—which organizes the annual festival—that includes exhibits and events about such topics as the women’s suffrage movement and the work of political cartoonist Herblock. (See the full list of speakers below.)

Other “changemakers” on tap for the festival include José Andrés, who will discuss his book We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time. Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. will speak on a panel about race in America, and primatologist Frans de Waal will lead a conversation on animal emotions (he literally wrote the book on the subject).

On the fiction side, Joyce Carol Oates will be on hand to discuss her 2018 fiction collection Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, and Pulitzer nominee Barbara Kingsolver will bring her novel Unsheltered. Author Julia Alvarez will also be on hand to mark the 25th anniversary of her book of historical fiction In the Time of the Butterflies.

As in previous years, the festival is free and open to the public, but you’ll want to get to the high-profile sessions early (a number of them filled up last year).

National Book Festival Author Lineup

• Main Stage: José Andrés, Michael Beschloss, David Brooks, Richard Ford, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David McCullough, Raina Telgemeier
• Fiction: Louis Bayard, Ann Beattie, Susan Choi, Barbara Kingsolver, Laila Lalami, Rebecca Makkai, Thomas Mallon, Sigrid Nunez, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Powers, Roxana Robinson
• Genre Fiction: Charlie Jane Anders, Johnny D. Boggs, James Ellroy, Margaret George, Philippa Gregory, Anne Hillerman, Paul Andrew Hutton, Joe Ide, Craig Johnson, Brianna Labuskes, Seanan McGuire, Sara Paretsky, John Scalzi, Victoria Schwab
• History & Biography: Rick Atkinson, Douglas Brinkley, Colin G. Calloway, Joanne B. Freeman, Casey Gerald, David Maraniss, Andrew Roberts, Evan Thomas, David Treuer, Elaine Weiss, Brenda Wineapple
• International: Liliana Colanzi, María Dueñas, Melba Escobar, Inga Gaile, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amitav Ghosh, Olga Grjasnowa, Caoilinn Hughes, Claudia Salazar Jiménez, Jeanine Leane, Brenton McKenna, Kim Scott, Kim Thúy
• Poetry & Prose: Julia Álvarez, Sheila Black, Jericho Brown, Nathan Englander, Aminatta Forna, Ilya Kaminsky, R.O. Kwon, Dorianne Laux, Valeria Luiselli, Alberto Manguel, Madeline Miller, Brendan Mathews, Lydia Millet, Pamela Paul, Linda Sue Park, Maria Russo, Jon Scieszka, Natasha Trethewey, Renée Watson, Emily Wilson, Jenny Xie
• Science: Peter Brannen, Alexandra Horowitz, Beth Macy, Thomas W. Malone, Lisa Margonelli, Jim Ottaviani, David Quammen, Douglas Rushkoff, Daniel Stone, Frans de Waal, David Sloan Wilson
• Understanding Our World: Andrea Barnet, David Blight, David Epstein, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Judge Richard Gergel, Reyna Grande, David Grann, Amy Gutmann,  Joshua Hammer, Aleksandar Hemon, Parag Khanna, Steve Luxenberg, Alberto Manguel, Suketu Mehta, Jonathan Moreno, Elaine Pagels, Steven Pearlstein, Andrew Roberts
• Children: Mac Barnett, Cece Bell, Sophie Blackall, Tonya Bolden, Fred Bowen, Max Brallier, Molly Brooks, Pablo Cartaya, Fabien Cousteau, Lucy Ruth Cummins, Gale Galligan, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Brian Floca, Matthew Gray Gubler, Shannon Hale, Jennifer Holm, Matthew Holm, Jon Klassen, Ann M. Martin, Juana Medina, R.J. Palacio, Linda Sue Park, LeUyen Pham, Matt Phelan, Greg Pizzoli, Sherri Duskey Rinker, Sharon Robinson, Adam Rubin, Victoria Schwab, Jon Scieszka, Ronald L. Smith, Jennifer Swanson, Steven Weinberg
• Teens: Holly Black, Monica Hesse, Kathleen Glasgow, Ellen Hagan, Faith Erin Hicks, Linda Holmes, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Mitali Perkins, Rainbow Rowell, Misa Sugiura,  Ngozi Ukazu, Renée Watson, Scott Westerfeld, Markus Zusak

The National Book Festival will take place at the Convention Center on August 31 from 8:30 a.m.-8 p.m. The full schedule will be announced later this summer.   

This post has been updated with the full lineup of authors at the National Book Festival.