[Narration by interpreter] >> Nyle DiMarco: Hi, I'm Nyle DiMarco. Well, in the hallways of the Book Festival, it is packed with people carrying their favorite reads. Carrying all sorts of exciting stuff about the icons that are here with published books. I actually just had a panel session with Jonathan, which was amazing. Jonathan is incredible, first of all. We had a chance to talk about my book to a full audience of hearing people and of deaf people, and it was a lot of fun. It was a great conversation with him. It definitely feels like a homecoming to be back here in Washington, D.C. I mean, I lived here for seven years. I went to Gallaudet University here right around the corner from the Library of Congress. And always during my time in college, I used to run down here on the Avenue. So it's great to be back home. It's good to be back. My book took a little bit over five years to make. So about five years ago when my team said, "Nyle, we think it's time that you write a book." And I said, "I don't have any stories to tell anybody." Honestly, I'm just a pretty regular deaf boy. But they convinced me. And in fact, the more that I started thinking about it and my upbringing, especially where I come from, being fourth generation deaf in my family, I really realized I do have some pretty unique stories to tell. So I dove into the writing process and I dove in with a ghostwriter, who's a very good friend of mine. And the goal was always to be able to sign everything and then have it translated into a structure that works best for a reader. So I had my deaf ghostwriter translate all of my own signs into English. And I realized in the process, ASL being my native language, was really the place I was most comfortable writing in. And that's how I did it. So we took the book five years from concept to finish, definitely, but we started about halfway through that five years writing and figuring out exactly how we would structure it, what we wanted the format to look like which required me to read a lot of other memoirs and finding things that I could borrow from. Growing up, I always went to the library and, typically, it was for me to make a beeline straight to the history section. I loved reading history. You know, it's funny, because I've always been very inspired by reading, and I think I was always excited to potentially write something about my own deaf experience that I hadn't seen in history sections in libraries. I wanted to give people the support to change things, like our country. And of course, I love reading about U.S. history and world history. My favorite period for U.S. history, I would definitely say, is the 1800s. Because really, that's when deaf schools started to thrive and explode all of the U.S. Of course, there's a lot of reasons behind that that are incredibly fascinating. Certainly, if you look at American history and deaf history, you'll find a lot of interesting journeys. Thank you so much.