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Nantucket book fest announces lineup
By Meredith Goldstein
Globe Staff

The Nantucket Book Festival has announced some of the highlights of its 2017 lineup. The event, which runs June 16-18 on the island, will feature Pulitzer-winner Isabel Wilkerson; poet Robert Pinsky; chef-writer-editor Ruth Reichl; and former public radio star Diane Rehm, whose latest book, “On My Own,’’ is a memoir about her life after the death of her husband. Also there will be Nantucket’s own Nathaniel Philbrick, author of “In the Heart of the Sea,’’ who’ll be there to talk about his new young adult book, “Ben’s Revolution: Benjamin Russell and the Battle of Bunker Hill.’’