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Willy Claflin, Storyteller

Category: Storyteller
Festival Year
: 2009

Willy grew up in New Hampshire and as a child spent his days dreaming and wandering through the woods. At bedtime, his father told him stories, and each night Willy worried about the wolf under his bed. By high school, Claflin became a rock and roll and folk song singer.

He has released nine recordings since 1984 and has been a hit at regional festivals all over the country. Students of his from every corner have become teachers and storytellers, perpetuating Willy’s love of story and absurdity.

Claflin currently lives in San Francisco with his wife, and is working on a soon to be released recording of ballads—In Yonder’s Wood—with his son Brian Claflin, a comedian, vocalist and song writer.

Willy Claflin

Willy Claflin

Storyteller Website

Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue
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Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue

Category: Cookbook/Regional History
Festival Year
: 2009

“North Carolina barbecue is intensely local, with variations from one part of the state to another,” says author and barbecue-lover William McKinney. In 2001 McKinney established Carolina Barbecue Society (CBS) because, he says, “it was a great way for students and faculty to come together and learn about different parts of the state.” CBS became so popular that MTV's College Network came to one of their meetings.

In Holy Smoke, McKinney and Co-authors John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed share the histories, recipes, and culture that is North Carolina Barbecue.

William McKinney

William McKinney

Photo by: Paul Dagys


Author Website

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Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues

Category: Music/Non-fiction
Festival Year: 2009

William Ferris, a widely recognized leader in Southern studies, African American music and folklore, is a History professor at UNC Chapel Hill and the senior associate director of its Center for the Study of the American South.

The former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ferris has conducted thousands of interviews with musicians ranging from the famous (B.B. King) to the unrecognized (Parchman Penitentiary inmates working in the fields). He has produced numerous sound recordings and hosted "Highway 61," a weekly blues program on Mississippi Public Radio for nearly a decade. He has written or edited 10 books including his newest, Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues.


William Ferris

Author Website

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Songs for the Missing

Category: Fiction
Festival Year: 2009

Stewart O’Nan was working as a test engineer when his wife Trudy encouraged him to pursue a career in writing. In 1992, O’Nan graduated with his M.F.A. from Cornell University. Since then, he has taught at the University of Central Oklahoma and the University of New Mexico; has been a writer-in-residence and taught creative writing at Trinity College; and the research he did for his novel The Names of the Dead led to the creation of a class that studied Vietnam War memoirs as a form of literature, which he also initially taught.   

In 1996, Granta named him one of America's Best Young Novelists, and the New York Times Book Review has deemed his writing full of “quiet grace.”


Stewart O’Nan


Author Website

No Dogs Allowed!
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A Box Full of Kittens

Category: Children’s
Festival Year: 2009

Sonia Manzano is best known as “Maria” on Sesame Street, the first Latino character on the show. Manzano has earned fifteen Emmy Awards as a member of the Sesame Street writing staff and has been honored by the Association of Hispanic Arts and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in Washington, D.C., has received an honorary doctorate from Notre Dame University, and has been inducted into the Bronx Hall of Fame. She has written two children’s books: No Dogs Allowed and A Box Full of Kittens. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

Sonia Manzano

Sonia Manzano

Photo by: Richard Termine

Author Website

The Woodwright's Shop
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The Woodwright's Shop

Category: Not available
Festival Year
: 2009

For thirty years, Roy Underhill's PBS program, "The Woodwright's Shop," has brought classic hand-tool craftsmanship to viewers across America. A former master craftsman at Colonial Williamsburg, Roy has inspired millions to "just say no to power tools" through his continuing work as a historian, craftsman, activist, and teacher.

In his latest book, The Woodwright's Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge, Roy shows how to engage the mysteries of the splitting wedge and the cutting edge to shape wood from forest to furniture.

Roy Underhill

Roy Underhill

Photo by: Mike Oniffrey

Author Website

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The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

Category: Children’s
Festival Year: 2009

Reif Larsen, 28, is a filmmaker, teacher, and writer. While studying Educational Studies at Brown University, Larsen spent time teaching at Maru-a-Pula school in Gaborone, Botswana. This spring, he organized a U.S. tour of the Maru-a-Pula school marimba band in order to raise funds for AIDS orphan scholarships.

Larsen’s debut novel, The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, has been hailed as a boundary-leaping work tracing twelve-year-old genius T.S.Spivet’s attempts to understand the ways of the world. Larsen lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Columbia University, where he received his MFA in fiction.


Reif Larsen

Photo by: Elliott Holt

Author Website

 

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"Breaking Into Children’s Publishing" 

Category: Workshop
Festival Year: 2009

Megan Bryant is no stranger to getting children’s books published. Her canon of published work includes the Strawberry Shortcake series and several books as part of the “All Aboard Reading” series published by Grosset & Dunlap. Her newest book, The Easter Bunny’s Workshop, is full of bright illustrations and moveable parts that encourage young readers to interact with the story. Megan’s forthcoming title, The Royal Christmas Ballet, will be available at the end of September from Perseus Book Group


Megan Bryant

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31 Hours by Masha Hamilton

Category: Fiction
Festival Year: 2009

Masha Hamilton is a Brown University graduate who has worked as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press in the Middle East, as a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times in Moscow, and in 2006, traveled to Kenya to research her novel The Camel Bookmobile.

Hamilton is the author of four novels, all of which have been highly praised by Library Journal, Booklist, Booksense, and the New York Times. Hamilton has been awarded fiction fellowships from Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She teaches for Gotham Writers' Workshop and currently lives with her family in Brooklyn.


Masha Hamilton

Photo by: Briana Orr


Author Website

 

The Legal Limit
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The Legal Limit

Category: Fiction/Thriller
Festival Year: 2009

The New York Times has declared Martin Clark to be "the thinking man's John Grisham." He is a circuit court judge in Virginia and the author of three novels, the first of which, The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award.

Clark’s second novel, Plain Heathen Mischief, also received starred reviews and was nominated for several literary awards in 2004. His newest release, The Legal Limit, was selected by NPR as one of its "Summer Reads" and was featured and excerpted in Readers Digest. The New York Times Book Review has called it "a novel of ample graces.”

Martin Clark

Martin Clark

Photo by: Deana Heath Clark 

Author Website

 

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The Japanification of Children's Popular Culture: From Godzilla to Miyazaki 

Category: Workshop: Graphic Novels, Webcomics and Manga
Festival Year: 2009

Mark I. West is a Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches courses in children's and young adult literature. He has published numerous books and articles, most of which relate to children’s literature and culture.  His books include The Japanification of Children's Popular Culture: From Godzilla to Miyazaki; Psychoanalytic Responses to Children's Literature; Wellsprings of Imagination: Voices Against Censorship in Children's Literature; and Before Oz: Juvenile Fantasy Stories from Nineteenth-Century America. Before becoming a professor, West performed as a professional puppeteer.


Mark West

Naked Souls/Desnudos del Alma

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Naked Souls/Desnudos del Alma


Category
: Fiction/Short Stories
Festival Year
: 2009

Born in Buenos Aires, Marisa Estelrich moved to Winston-Salem in 1997 where she completed her postgraduate studies at Wake Forest University and UNCG. She has been published in the U.S., Spain, and Argentina, and currently works as a free-lance writer, editor, translator and moderator of creative writing workshops in Spanish and English.

Graciela Lucero-Hammer is the Chair and Associate Professor of Spanish in the Modern Languages Department at Salem College. A native of Córdoba, Argentina, Lucero-Hammer received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She specializes in the study and translation of Contemporary Latin-American Women Writers.

Marisa Estelrich

Marisa Estelrich


Author Website 

Graciela Lucero-Hammer


Translator Website 

 

Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-five of North Carolina's Finest Writers
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Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-five of North Carolina's Finest Writers

Category: Fiction/Anthology
Festival Year
: 2009

UNC Chapel Hill professor of English, Marianne Gingher is the author of both fiction and non-fiction. Her work has appeared in many periodicals and journals including: The Oxford American, Redbook, Seventeen, the New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times.

Amy Knox Brown, a native of Nebraska, currently lives in Winston-Salem where she is a visiting assistant professor of creative writing at Salem College. Press 53 is publishing her short fiction collection, Three Versions of the Truth, in September.

John McNally is the author of two novels, America’s Report Card and The Book of Ralph, and his fiction has appeared in over thirty journals and magazines. A native of Chicago’s southwest side, John is the Olen R. Nalley Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University. He and his wife, Amy, live in Winston-Salem.

Quinn Dalton is the author of a novel, High Strung, and two story collections, Bulletproof Girl and Stories from the Afterlife. Her stories have appeared in literary magazines such as Glimmer Train, One Story and Verb and anthologies such as New Stories from the South: The Year's Best. Born in south Carolina, she lives in Greensboro with her husband and two young daughters, and teaches creative writing at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Marianne Gingher

Marianne Gingher

Photo by: Roderick Gingher


Author Website

 
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Amy Knox Brown

Amy Knox Brown

Website


John McNally

John McNally

Website 


Quinn Dalton

Quinn Dalton

Website  

A Troubled Peace
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A Troubled Peace

Category: Young Adult
Festival Year: 2009

Laura Malone Elliott is a graduate of Wake Forest University and author of four YA novels. Her newest, A Troubled Peace, is the sequel to Under a War-torn Sky, and tells the story of a B-24 pilot, Henry Forester, who returns to France to find the Resistance boy who saved his life.
 
Elliott has also authored four picture books with New York Times best-selling illustrator, Lynn Munsinger. A long-time writer for the Washingtonian magazine, Elliott was twice a finalist for a National Magazine Award. She also holds a masters degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina, and currently lives in Virginia with her husband and two children.

Laura Malone Elliott

Laura Malone Elliott


Author Website

 

The Wonderful World of Sparkle Girl & Doobins
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The Wonderful World of Sparkle Girl & Doobins

Category: Children’s

Finding the Creative Spark— the Author/Illustrator/ Connection

Category: Workshop
Festival Year
: 2009

Kim Underwood writes columns and feature stories for the Winston-Salem Journal. Garnet Goldman is an artist and teacher. They met when Kim asked Garnet to illustrate his first book His Dogness Finds a Blue Heart. They are now married and live with Sparkle Girl and Doobins in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Their newest collaboration, The Wonderful World of Sparkle Girl & Doobins, is a beautiful children’s book that tells the story of a loving family’s magical world.

Kim will deliver an author session for kids, featuring his new release, in BOOKMARKS’ Young Readers Central.

Kim and Garnet will jointly conduct a workshop  “Finding the Creative Spark _ the Author/Illustrator Connection” in the workshops venue.

Kim Underwood

Kim Underwood


Illustrator:

Garnet Goldman

Garnet Goldman

Garnet Goldman Website

The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
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The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street


Category
: Business & Economics
Festival Year
: 2009

Justin Fox is the economics and business columnist for Time magazine and the Curious Capitalist blogger on Time.com. Before joining Time in 2007, Fox spent more than a decade at Fortune magazine, and at several newspapers including American Banker and The Birmingham News. He has a degree in international affairs from Princeton University and speaks Dutch and German. His book, The Myth of the Rational Market, is a history of the rise and fall of the efficient market hypothesis—the influential academic theory that financial markets are nearly perfectly rational and correct.

Fox lives in Manhattan with his wife and son.

Justin Fox

Justin Fox


Author Website

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Christmas Maus: Another Small Tale of Sisters House in Salem

Category: Children’s
Festival Year: 2009

As Associate Professor at Salem College, John Hutton teaches a wide range of art history and survey courses from the Paleolithic to Baroque periods, as well as Women in Art. Hutton received his degrees from Princeton University; the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London; and Harvard. He has chaired the Art Department and the First Year portion of the Salem Signature Program and lectures extensively, most frequently at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art.

An artist as well as scholar, Hutton is a painter, draughtsman, designer of stationery, and illustrator of children’s books. He has published ten books, including: Sister Maus and, most recently, Christmas Maus.


John Hutton

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Category: Non-fiction/History
Festival Year: 2009

John Berendt's first book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, spent a record-breaking four years on the New York Times bestseller list and, to date, has sold five million copies worldwide. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for general nonfiction, it was made into a movie directed by Clint Eastwood in 1997.

With his most recent book, The City of Falling Angels, Berendt once again claimed the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list. In this new non-fiction work, Berendt offers a penetrating and intriguing look at the private lives behind the storied façades of Venice.

John Berendt

John Berendt


Author Website

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“What’s in a Name?”

Category: Workshop
Festival Year: 2009

What would have happened if F. Scott Fitzgerald’s publisher approved the suggested title “Under the Red, White and Blue”? Simply put, The Great Gatsby might not have had the same success. Titles are not simply ways to catalogue works. In this workshop, we’ll consider the importance of a variety of titles and explore ways to develop effective titles for our own work.

Joe Mills is a visiting writer at Salem College and a permanent faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He has written two books of poetry, Somewhere During the Spin Cycle and Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers. His third collection, Love and Other Collisions, will be released in 2010.


Joe Mills

Joe Mills

 

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When I Married My Mother: A Daughter’s Search for What Really Matters – and How She Found It Caring for Mama

Category: Memoir
Festival Year
: 2009

When her brother’s wedding threw her back into her estranged mother’s life, Jo Maeder realized that she could no longer leave frail “Mama Jo” alone. In her memoir, Maeder describes her decision to leave her glamorous, fast-paced life as a New York City DJ to care for her mother in the Bible Belt. She tells of how “marrying” her mother allowed her to repair the long-time rifts in her family and discover a life that perhaps fit her better than the one she left behind.

Maeder was a DJ on New York’s WKTU, K-ROCK (as “The Rock and Roll Madame”), and Z100. She has written for the New York Times and More magazine. She lives in North Carolina and New York.

Joe Maeder

Jo Maeder

Photo by: Franklyn Millman

Author Website


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Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

Category: Memoir
Festival Year
: 2009

North Carolina residents Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton tell their harrowing story in Picking Cotton. A man broke into Thompson’s apartment while she slept and raped her at knifepoint. Her positive identification of Ronald Cotton as her attacker put Cotton behind bars for eleven years.

Finally, Cotton was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released and together Thompson-Cannino and Cotton have forged an unlikely friendship that has changed both of their lives.

In their own words they unfold the harrowing details of their tragedy, and challenge our ideas of memory and judgment while demonstrating the profound nature of human grace and the healing power of forgiveness.



Jennifer Thompson-Cannino

Ronald Cotton

Book Website

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The Cracker Kitchen: A Cookbook in Celebration of Cornbread-Fed, Down Home Family Stories and Cuisine

Category: Cookbook
Festival Year: 2009

Janis Owens is a novelist, memoirist, and folklorist. She is a native of West Florida and received her degree from the University of Florida, where she was a Creative Writing student of Harry Crews for two years. She has been a working writer ever since and is the award-winning author of three acclaimed novels.

Her new book The Cracker Kitchen is part-cookbook and part-family memoir that celebrates the backwoods resilience of a much maligned section of Southern culture: the hapless, toothless Cracker. Janis traces the roots of the word back to its origins and explores this group of proud, fiercely independent Americans who have a deep love of their families, country, stories and food.


Janis Owens


Author Website

A Son of the Game
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A Son of the Game

Category: Non-fiction/Sports/Memoir
Festival Year: 2009

James Dodson currently resides in Southern Pines, North Carolina, where he is Writer-in-Residence at The Pilot Newspaper and editor of PineStraw Magazine. For almost twenty years, he was an award-winning regular columnist for Golf Magazine. He is the author of five books and his work has also appeared in GQ, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Travel and Leisure, Town and Country, Reader's Digest, and numerous other publications.

Dodson's current book, A Son of the Game, published in May 2009, is set in Southern Pines and has been called his best memoir.

James Dodson

James Dodson

Author Website


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Girl, Get Your Credit Straight!: A Sister's Guide to Ditching Your Debt, Mending Your Credit, and Building a Strong Financial Future

Category: Business & Economics
Festival Year
: 2009

Glinda Bridgforth is a leading financial expert who explores the emotional and cultural factors that block financial success. She brings over thirty years of experience to her consulting practice, Bridgforth Financial, and specializes in a holistic approach to money management. She is the bestselling author of: Girl, Get Your Money Straight!; Girl, Make Your Money Grow!; and most recently, Girl, Get Your Credit Straight!.

Bridgforth has been featured in USA Today, Essence, Ebony, Money, and Black Enterprise, and has been featured on television and radio shows nationwide, including: Oprah, The Today Show, and CNN. She conducts workshops and lectures around the country and writes a monthly column called Debt Free/Care Free on TDJakes.com.


Glinda Bridgforth


Author Website

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Frank Stitt's Bottega Favorita: A Southern Chef's Love Affair with Italian Food

Category: Cookbook
Festival Year
: 2009

Frank Stitt is the chef and owner of Highlands Bar and Grill, Bottega Restaurant and Café, and Chez Fonfon, all located in Birmingham, Alabama.  He has won the James Beard Award for the Best Chef of the Southeast and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Foodways Alliance. He is the author of Frank Stitt’s Southern Table and most recently, Frank Stitt’s Bottega Favorita: A Southern Chef’s Love Affair with Italian Food.  

In his new book, Stitt transforms Mediterranean cuisine for the Southern table by celebrating the purity and simplicity of Mediterranean flavors with Southern spirit on every page.

Frank Stitt

Frank Stitt


Author Website

The Kind of Friends We Used to Be

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The Kind of Friends We Used to Be

Category: Children’s
Festival Year
: 2009

Frances O’Roark Dowell was born in Berlin, Germany, when her father was stationed there with the U.S. Army. She currently lives in Durham with her husband Clifton and their two sons Jack and Will.

Dowell is the author of eight books including the popular Phineas L. Macguire series. Her newest book, The Kind of Friends We Used to Be, is about two girls and their friendship as they enter middle school. A book about the complexities of growing up, it is the companion book to The Secret Language of Girls (2004).

Frances O’Roark Dowell

Frances O’Roark Dowell

Author Website

The Big Steal
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The Big Steal

Category: Fiction/Mystery
Festival Year: 2009

Emyl Jenkins is a longtime antiques appraiser who has worked at two auction houses and written numerous books and articles on antiques, as well as a syndicated column. She is the author of Emyl Jenkins’ Appraisal Book, Emyl Jenkins’ Southern Christmas, The Book of American Traditions, From Storebought to Homemade, and most recently, the Sterling Glass Mysteries series published by Algonquin. She currently lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Emyl Jenkins

Emyl Jenkins

Author Website


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Night of the Living Lawn Ornaments

Category: Children’s
Festival Year
: 2009

Emily Ecton is a writer and producer for “Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!”, the NPR news quiz. She has also been a playwright, a chinchilla wrangler, an ice cream scooper and a costume character. Ecton is the author of three children’s books: Boots and Pieces, The Curse of Cuddles McGee, and Night of the Living Lawn Ornaments. She lives in Chicago with her
dog, Binky, who unlike Mr. Boots, never wears clothes.


Emily Ecton

Author Website

 

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Parlous Angels

Category: Fiction/Short Stories
Festival Year: 2009

Ed Southern, a Winston-Salem native, is the Executive Director of the North Carolina Writers' Network. His previous non-fiction titles include: Spots in the Carolinas: From Death Valley to Tobacco Road, Voices of the American Revolution in the Carolinas, and The Jamestown Adventure. Parlous Angels is his first work of fiction.

Ed Southern

Ed Southern

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Back to Wando Passo

Category: Fiction
Festival Year: 2009

“I can think of few better ways to spend a Saturday than with authors and fellow readers gathered together to celebrate books.  BOOKMARKS demonstrates Winston-Salem’s commitment to literacy and the arts, and I am honored to be the honorary chair for the festival’s fifth year.” 

— David Payne, BOOKMARKS 2009 Honorary Chair

David Payne is the award-winning author of Back to Wando Passo and four previous novels.  A North Carolina native, David lives in Hillsborough, NC, with his family, and teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Queens University of Charlotte.  David is currently at work on a memoir, Barefoot to Avalon, and will serve as writer-in-residence at Hollins University in the coming year.  

Of David's most recent novel, Pat Conroy writes: "Back to Wando Passo quivers with authentic life and is so bold in concept and audacious in scope that it seems like the summing up and exclamation point of a great writer's career. The novel contains everything..."

Mr. Payne will mingle with guests and authors at the Friday evening September 11 author reception.  During the festival, he will preside over the Welcoming Ceremony; present a session on his work; and mingle with authors and attendees throughout the day.


David Payne

Author Website

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

Category: Non-fiction/American History
Festival Year: 2009

Daniel Walker Howe is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus, Oxford University, and Professor of History Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Political Culture of the American Whigs and Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. Howe’s latest book, What Hath God Wrought, won the Pulitzer Prize in History for 2008. He lives in Los Angeles.

Daniel Walker Howe

Daniel Walker Howe


Author Website

The 99-Cent Only Stores Cookbook: Gourmet Recipes at Discount Prices
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The 99-Cent Only Stores Cookbook: Gourmet Recipes at Discount Prices

Category: Cookbook
Festival Year: 2009

Christiane Jory, a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, is constantly exploring creative ways to survive for the starving artist. She first learned to cook during her time abroad in Paris. Limited funds and market hours were the catalysts which lead to learning how to cook with what was in the cupboard. This experience lent itself well to the two years of nights and weekends it took to test and write The 99 Cent Only Store Cookbook.

Jory currently resides in the Hollywood Hills and is working on two new books.

Christiane Jory

Christiane Jory

Author Website

The Diabetic Chef’s Year-Round Cookbook
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The Diabetic Chef’s Year-Round Cookbook

Category: Cooking
Festival Year
: 2009

Chef Chris Smith was 24 years old, a student at the Culinary Institute of America in New York, and working at Manhattan's four-star Le Cirque restaurant when he was diagnosed with Type I diabetes.

“For so many people being told to go on a restrictive diet is like being told they can never again eat food they enjoy or eat a regular meal with their family,” Smith says. But in his workshops and cooking classes, he proves this is untrue by educating people on how to cook healthy meals full of flavor.

Chris Smith

Chris Smith

Author Website

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Where the River Ends

Category: Fiction
Festival Year: 2009


Charles Martin is quickly becoming a favorite among southern fiction fans. He is the author of six books and his writing has been compared to Nicholas Sparks. He earned his B.A. in English from Florida State University, and his M.A. in Journalism and Ph.D. in Communication from Regent University.

In 1999, Martin left a career in business to pursue his writing. He currently lives with his wife and three sons near the St. John's River in Jacksonville, Florida.


Charles Martin

Author Website

Queen of Broken Hearts
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Queen of Broken Hearts

Category: Fiction
Festival Year
: 2009

Cassandra King’s novels have won the hearts of readers everywhere, especially in the American south. A native of L.A. (Lower Alabama), she now lives in South Carolina with her husband, novelist Pat Conroy.

She is the author of four best-selling novels, Making Waves, The Sunday Wife, The Same Sweet Girls, and Queen of Broken Hearts, as well as numerous short stories and articles. The Sunday Wife was a Book Sense Pick and a People magazine Page Turner of the Week; The Same Sweet Girls a number one Book Sense selection, and Queen of Broken Hearts, a Literary Guild and Book-of-the-Month Club pick. Bridal Falls, a fifth novel, will be released in 2010.

Cassandra King

Cassandra King

Author Website

Becoming Billie Holiday
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Becoming Billie Holiday

Category: Children’s
Festival Year: 2009

Carole Boston Weatherford is a New York Times best-selling poet and children’s author. Baltimore-born and -raised, she composed her first poem in first grade. Since her literary debut with Juneteenth Jamboree in 1995, her books have received many literary honors including: the Caldecott Honor, the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, two NAACP Image Awards, the Ragan-Rubin Award from the North Carolina English Teachers Association, and many more.

Weatherford earned a Master of Arts in publications design from the University of Baltimore and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She currently teaches at Fayetteville State University and lives in High Point with her husband their two children.

Carole Boston Weatherford

Carole Boston Weatherford

Author Website


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Midnight Sun

Category: Graphic Novels/YA
Festival Year: 2009

Ben Towle is an Eisner-nominated cartoonist known primarily for his work with SLG Publishing, including the recent historical fiction graphic novel Midnight Sun as well as his earlier volume of comics folk tales, Farewell, Georgia. His illustrations can be found in the forthcoming book, Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean, a graphic novel for young. Towle is currently hard at work on a creator-owned fantasy story about turn of the century Chesapeake Bay oystermen.


Ben Towle

Author Website


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