Nonfiction

Sam Abell is a long-time photographer for National Geographic. He photographed all the material for Lewis and Clark:. Voyage of Discovery, authored with Stephen Ambrose. 3/23, 2 p.m.
	Jennifer Ackerman, author of Chance in the House of Fate, has won a Bunting Fellowship and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She lives in Charlottesville. 3/22, 12 noon.
	Joyce Allan, a psychotherapist who coordinates the Child Development Resource Center, is a lecturer, teacher and workshop leader specializing in abuse survival. She wrote Because I Love You: The Silent Shadow of Child Sexual Abuse. 3/23, 6 p.m.
	Jeff Alt, motivated by his love for his brother and his passion for hiking, authored A Walk for Sunshine, a fundraiser for the Sunshine Home where his brother lives. He is a speech-language pathologist. 3/21, 7:15 p.m.
	John Alton, author of Living Qigong and Unified Fitness: A 35-Day Exercise Program for Sustainable Health, is president of Health Masters International and Founder of Unified Fitness, LLC, which blend Eastern and Western approaches to health. 3/23, 12 noon.
	Jean Renfro Anspaugh earned a Master's Degree in Folklore from UNC Chapel Hill. She has been documenting diet culture since 1989. Her book is Fat Like Us. 3/22, 12 noon.
	Marie Arana is the author of American Chica and the editor of The Washington Post Book World. She has served on the boards of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. 3/20, 11:45 a.m.
	Paul Aron, author of Unsolved Mysteries of History and Count the Ways: The Greatest Love Stories of Our Times, has been a reporter for the Virginia Gazette, and executive editor at Simon & Schuster. 3/23, 12 noon.
	P.M.H. Atwater is the author of five books on near-death experiences: Coming Back to Life, Beyond the Light, Future Memory, Children of the New Millennium, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Near-Death Experiences. 3/22, 6 p.m.
	Judy Light Ayyildiz is author of Nothing But Time: A Woman's Struggle with Guillain-Barre Syndrome; poetry: Smuggled Seeds and Mud River; texts: Creative Writing Across the Curriculum, Easy Ideas for Busy Teachers and The Writer’s Express. She is working on a novel.. 3/21, 10 a.m.
	Erin Barrett and her husband Jack Mingo have written dozens of books including the Just Curious… the Ask Jeeves series and the Wannabe Guides to wine and golf. They live in Charlottesville. 3/20, 7 p.m.; 3/23, 12 noon.
Mark Batshaw is the author of When Your Child Has a Disability. A pediatrician for more than 25 years, he is chief academic officer for Children's National Medical Center, director of the Children's Research Institute, professor and chairman of pediatrics of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. 3/23, 4 p.m.
	Faith Andrews Bedford's writings include the biography Frank W. Benson: American Impressionist and The Sporting Art of Frank W. Benson. Her short stories and essays appear in numerous national magazines; her column "Kids in the Country" appears in Country Living. 3/23, 4 p.m.
Jannequin Bennett, author of Very Vegetarian, is executive chef at TJ's Restaurant, featuring Mediterranean cuisine with Asian accents, in the Jefferson Hotel–a AAA Five Diamond, Mobile Five Star Hotel– in Richmond, Virginia. 3/21, 10 a.m.; 3/21, 12 noon.
Jackie Brinton is a graduate student in Religious Studies at UVA. She and her daughter have been in a mother-daughter book club for three years 3/21, 4 p.m.
Lilias Brinton is in the sixth grade at Jack Jouett School. She has been a member of a mother-daughter book club for three years. 3/21, 4 p.m.
Florence Coleman Bryant taught and was an administrator in the Charlottesville schools for 37 years. She is the author of Memoirs of a Country Girl and edited Rebecca Fuller McGinness, A Lifetime: 1892-2000. 3/21, 10 a.m.
	A'Lelia Bundles, the author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, is Walker's great-great-granddaughter. She is the former deputy bureau chief for ABC News in Washington, D.C. and was an award-winning producer with ABC News and NBC News. 3/23, 10 a.m; 3/23, 2 p.m.

Bill and Mary Burnham of Gloucester, Virginia, are co-authors of two Virginia guidebooks, including Hike America: Virginia. Former newspaper reporters who have blended their love of the outdoors and travel with their writing and photography skills, they are regular contributors to Hampton Roads Monthly, The Virginian-Pilot, Blue Ridge Outdoors, Backpacker and Racing Milestones.. 3/21, 7:15 p.m.

	Jeremy Campbell, author of The Liar's Tale: A History of Falsehood and Grammatical Man, is the Washington correspondent for the Evening Standard. A graduate of Oxford University, he lives in Washington, D.C. 3/22, 12 noon.
Kara Carden has published more than 300 articles in publications including National Geographic Traveler, Southern Living, and Cooking Light. A Tennessee history buff, she founded the Lost State Writers Guild to promote writers and writing in the Alleghenies. 3/22, 10 a.m.
Griffith Chaussee is lecturer of Hindi and Urdu at UVa. He is the translator of Karachi and Other Poems: A Selection by Zeeshan Sahil. 3/22, 4 p.m.
	Benjamin Hale Cheever is the author of three novels and the editor of The Letters of John Cheever. Formerly a newspaper reporter and Reader's Digest editor, he has taught at Bennington College and the New School for Social Research. His new book is Selling Ben Cheever. 3/20, 6 p.m.; 3/22, 2 p.m.
Karen Chiao, co-author of Spies' Wives, developed wanderlust as a child after reading an article about Boris, a White Russian who lived in Nepal. After seven tours overseas, she and her husband have settled in a suburb of Washington, DC. 3/21, 7 p.m.
Carol Church past Vice President of the Piedmont Master Gardeners, is the Garden Center Manager of the downtown Charlottesville Southern States store, and is an avid transplanted New York gardener, who in her spare time enjoys the challenges of Virginia gardening. 3/21 noon.
Carl Clark is a veteran of World War II, and a survivor of Pearl Harbor. Retired, he is active in civic and church affairs. His memoir is Pieces from My Mind: The Compelling True Story of a Black Man in White Man's Navy during WW II. 3/21. 2 p.m.
Su Clauson-Wicker, author of Inn-to-Inn Walking Guide, has been an educational television director and feature writer. She explores Virginia on skis, by bike and on foot. 3/21, 7:15 p.m.
Edward Cohen is the author of The Peddler’s Grandson: Growing Up Jewish In Mississippi, which received Mississippi’s top two literary awards and has been a two-time selection of Book Sense. His PBS Documentaries have won international film festival awards, and his screenplay, Imminent Peril, was optioned by Oprah Winfrey. 3/23, 2 p.m.
	Kate Cohen is the author of the memoir A Walk Down the Aisle: Notes on Modern Writing, and The Neppi Modona Diaries: Reading Jewish Survival Through My Italian Family. She lives in Albany, New York. 3/22, 4 p.m.
Elaine Pinkerton Coleman is the editor of From Calcutta with Love: The World War II Letters of Richard and Reva Beard and is the author of two other books. She has worked for the state government of New Mexico. 3/21, 4 p.m.
Neal Conan has been a Utility Infielder with National Public Radio for 25 years. He took a leave of absence from NPR News to work as the radio announcer for the Aberdeen Arsenal, a minor league baseball team. Based on his experiences, he wrote Play by Play: Baseball, Radio And Life In The Last Chance League. He now hosts "Talk of the Nation." 3/22 ,12 noon.
George E. Conway, the author of Giving Good Gifts, is the headmaster of St. Anne's Belfield School. A Presbyterian minister, he has been a teacher, counselor, chaplain, coach and administrator in independent schools from New England to Virginia. 3/24, 1:30 p.m.
	Rand Richards Cooper is the author of Big as Life: Stories About Men and The Last to Go. His stories have appeared in many magazines and in the "Selected Shorts" series on NPR; The Last to Go was produced for television by ABC. 3/21, 2 p.m.
Roberta Culbertson is an anthropologist, and the Director of the Center for Violence and Survival at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. She is also a poet, and the author of Siege: Leadership and the Survival of U.S. Embassy, Kuwait. 3/23, 10 a.m.
	Charles Curtis has been involved in many facets of photography including advertising and fashion. His work has appeared in three issues of Southern Cultures, a journal of history and culture published by the University of North Carolina. 3/23, 2 p.m.
Daryl Dance is the author of From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore: An Anthology, Honey Hush, an anthology of African-American women's humor, and numerous other books. She is a professor of English at the University of Richmond. 3/21, 2 p.m.; 3/21, 4 p.m.
Joseph David is a psychiatrist. He is a founding member of a small reading group which has met monthly for nearly 20 years. Now consisting of 11 male members, the group has very few fixed rules and is bound together by a love of reading and each other's company. 3/21, 4 p.m.
	Mary Loose DeViney is a professional registered parliamentarian. She is conversant in using Robert's Rules of Order to accomplish political ends. 3/21, 12 noon.
	Dan Doernberg is President of Fairness.com, an online clearinghouse of fairness-related information and links. He founded Silicon Valley's Computer Literacy Bookshops, the world's largest chain of computer bookstores until its sale to Fatbrain.com/Barnes&Noble. 3/22, 12 noon.
	Lawrence J. Epstein, author of The Haunted Smile, is a Professor of English at Suffolk County Community College. A specialist in American Jewish life, he is the author of A Treasury of Jewish Anecdotes and A Treasury of Jewish Inspirational Stories. 3/23, 2 p.m.
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Nickel and Dimed: Or (Not) Getting By in America and seven other books. She is a frequent contributor to Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, The Nation and The New York Times Magazine. 3/20, 6 p.m.

Steve Fainaru is an investigative reporter in the New York bureau of the Washington Post. He focuses primarily on civil liberties and sports. He is the co-author of The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American Dream. 3/22, 12 noon; 3/22, 4 p.m.
	Tim Flannery is the director of the South Australian Museum and a professor at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of six books, including The Future Eaters and The Eternal Frontier. He lives in Adelaide, Australia. 3/22, 8 p.m.
Joanne B. Freeman is assistant professor of history at Yale University. She appeared in the PBS American Experience documentary "The Duel," exploring the fatal 1804 clash between Burr and Hamilton. She has recently published Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic and is editor of Alexander Hamilton: Writings, 3/22, 2 p.m.
	Blair Fuller, is an editor of The Paris Review, author of two novels, and the recipient of two O. Henry Awards for his short stories. His most recent book is Art in the Blood: Seven Generations of American Artists in the Fuller Family. 3/23, 4 p.m.
	Michael Gelb is the author of How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci, and Discover Your Genius: How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds. He runs the High Performance Learning Center in New York. 3/19, 7 p.m.; 3/21, 6:30 p.m.
	Glenn Gaesser is author of Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health and The Spark: The Revolutionary 3-Week Fitness Plan that Changes Everything You Know About Exercise, Weight Control and Health. He is Associate Professor of Exercise Physiology at UVa. 3/23, 12 noon.
	Richard Goodman is the author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France. He has twice been the recipient of a MacDowell Colony residency. 3/22, 2 p.m.
	Lori Gottlieb is the author of the best-selling memoir Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self. She served as Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of the now defunct Kibu.com, "a digital hangout for teenage girls." She lives in Los Angeles. 3/22, 12 noon.
	Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Ph.D. is an experienced dreamwork facilitator and intuitive consultant, and is author of 30 books on mind/body/spirit topics. She is president of Visionary Living and has served on the board of the Association of Dreams. 3/24, 1:30 p.m.
Marjorie Heins is Director of the Free Expression Policy Project at the National Coalition Against Censorship, and the author of Sex, Sin and Blasphemy: A Guide to America’s Censorship Wars, Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence and Youth, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars. 3/23, 10 a.m.
Jane Henley is President of the National Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation. 3/23, 2 p.m.
	Homer Hickam is the author of six books including the memoir trilogy Rocket Boys (made into the movie October Sky), The Coalwood Way, Sky of Stone and We Are Not Afraid, a book which helps people learn to defeat long-term fear. He is at work on a World War II novel. 3/23, 2 p.m.; 3/23, 6 p.m.; 3/23, 8 p.m.
	Lori A. Hickman, M.S., CCC-SLP, author of Living In My Skin, is certified in speech-language pathology, working among children with communication disorders for 17 years. Her other works include Space Station Articulation, The Apraxia Profile, Animal Talk, and Speech Pirates. 3/23, 4 p.m.
Susan Tyler Hitchcock has published six books, most recently The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History. She is working on a book about English Romantic sisters, wives, and daughters. Her memoir, Coming About, has just been reissued. 3/21, 2 p.m.
	Ellen Hoffman, author of Bankroll Your Future Retirement: The Retirement Catch-up Guide, is a columnist for Business Week Online and contributes to Business Week magazine. She specializes in retirement and personal finance issues. 3/22, 4 p.m.
Pat Houser is an Associate Editor of Black Issues Book Review, Chapter Facilitator and Scholarship Committee Chairperson for the 300+ member Go On Girl! Book Club and founder of the Ebony Book Club. 3/21, 4 p.m.
Robert Hueckstedt won third prize in a translation competition sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association for The Perplexity of Hariya Hercules (translated from Hindi). He is a professor of Hindi and Sanskrit at U.Va. 3/22, 4 p.m.
Bill Hunt is one of the founders of Value America and director of the publishing company, Cricketsong Books, division of Virginia Publishers. 3/23, 10 a.m.
	Jeffrey Scott Isenberg has a Doctor of Medicine and Masters of Public Health from Tulane University. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of the Philosophy of Surgery & Medicine, and the author of The Modern Aesthetic Surgeon: Confronting a Medical Paradox in an Aging World. 3/22, 12 noon.
Janis Jaquith, author of Birdseed Cookies: A Fractured Memoir, is a journalist, novelist and essayist whose work has appeared on NPR's "Marketplace." She lives in Free Union, Virginia. 3/21, 4 p.m.
	T. Page Johnson, a Professional Registered Parliamentarian, travels internationally to discuss Parliamentary Procedure. His specialty is the history of Parliamentary Procedure from Jefferson to Cushing and Henry Martyn. 3/21, 12 noon.
	Gary Kessler, spent years in U.S. embassy service in East Asia and the Mediterranean. He was a consultant for The Deerhunter, The Killing Fields, and Good Morning Vietnam. His e-novel thriller Laughter Down the Mountain was released in 2001 , and he authors On the Downtown Mall. 3/20, 4 p.m.
	George Kousoulas is a photographer and architect with a special interest in the American urban landscape. He has written for the Washington Post and was the co-author and photographer of the book Contemporary Architecture in Washington, D.C. 3/21, 6 p.m.
Peter Kurth is the author of Isadora: A Sensational Life; Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexander; Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson; and American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson. 3/22, 10 a.m., 3/22, 4 p.m.
Kimberly J. Lau is Assistant Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Utah. She is author of New Age Capitalism, and is currently writing an ethnography of Sisters in Shape, a black women's health and fitness project in Philadelphia. 3/21, 2 p.m.
	David M. Lawrence, author of Upheaval From the Abyss: Ocean Floor Mapping, is a freelance journalist and scientist living in Mechanicsville, Virginia. He is currently pursuing a doctorate at the UVa Department of Environmental Sciences. 3/22, 2 p.m.
	Marc Leepson is the author of four books. His most recent is Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built. Leepson lives in Middleburg, Virginia. 3/20, 6 p.m.; 3/21, 2 p.m.; 3/22, 4 p.m.
	Daniel Lenihan, author of Submerged, has been at the center of underwater research projects from Pearl Harbor to the Bikini Atoll. He and his Submerged Cultural Resources Unit have been the subject of documentaries by CBS, ABC, BBC, and The National Geographic. 3/22, 2 p.m.
	Charles Lewis, MacArthur Fellow and author of The Cheating of America, is executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, which he founded after a career as an investigative producer for 60 Minutes, among other programs. His books include The Buying of the President and The Buying of Congress. 3/22, 12 noon.

	Robert Mann serves as state director for U.S. Sen. John Breaux, and was press secretary for the Senator from 1987 to 1999. His most recent book is A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam. He is currently writing an introductory history of the Cold War. 3/21, 11 a.m.
Martha Manning is a psychologist and author of The Common Thread: Mothers, Daughters and the Power of Empathy, a book on mother-daughter relationships. She received a Presidential award for patient advocacy from the American Psychiatric Association. 3/23, 4 p.m.
	Bernard Mayes, author of Escaping God's Closet, is a gay-rights activist, journalist, and dramatist. He lives in Washington, D.C. He previously taught at UVa. 3/21, 12 noon.
	F. Daniel McClure, co-author of The Down and Dirty Guide to Adult ADD, earned his doctorate in clinical child psychology at the University of Virginia, and works in private practice in Charlottesville. 3/24, 1:30 p.m.
Minnie Lee McGehee, co-author of Mr. Jefferson's River: The Rivanna, has written and researched for the Fluvanna Historical Society since 1962. She has produced 25 full-length manuscripts and edited many others. 3/21, 6 p.m.
Suzanne McIntire, author of An American Cutting Garden: A Primer for Growing Cut Flowers Where Summers Are Hot and Winters Are Cold, writes and gardens in the hot summers and cold winters of northern Virginia. 3/21, 12 noon.
	Charles "Mac" McRaven is the author of Building with Stone, Stonework, and Restoring the Hewn Log House. Owner of McRaven Restorations, McRaven is a nationwide authority on building, and preserving the historic landscape. 3/21, 10 a.m.
	William Lee Miller, author of Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography, is a scholar in ethics and institutions at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the UVa. He retired in 1999 as the Thomas C. Sorensen Professor and Commonwealth Professor of Political and Social Thought. 3/ 20, 4 p.m.; 3/23, 10 a.m.
	Jack Mingo and his wife Erin Barrett have written dozens of works including the Just Curious, the Jeeves series and the Wannabe Guides to wine and golf. They live in Charlottesville. 3/20, 7 p.m., 3/23, 12 noon.
Vicky Moon is a life-long equestrienne who has written about life in Middleburg, Virginia, for People magazine and The Washington Post. Her new book is the Middleburg Mystique. 3/23, 12 noon.
William R. Morrish has authored several books including Planning to Stay and Civilizing Terrains: Mountains, Mounds and Mesas. In 1994, he and his late wife, Catherine Brown, were hailed by the New York Times as, "the most valuable thinkers in urbanism today." He is the Elwood R. Quesada Professor of Architecture., UVA. 3/21, 12 noon.
Angela Mulloy, author of Plantation Feasts and Festivities, is the owner of the world famous Willow Grove Inn. A professional writer and designer, she has dedicated her life to collecting and preserving the treasures of the past. 3/21, 10 a.m.; 3/21, 12 noon.
	Jim Murray, author of Wireless Nation: The Frenzied Launch of the Cellular Revolution in America is the founder and managing director of Court Square Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing in telecommunications and information technology investments. 3/22, 4 p.m.
Gael P. Mustapha is the author of the Adventures in Hawaii children's book series and a self-published novel about the "croning" of Cinderella. Mustapha writes regularly on grandparenting, travel, artists, and seasonal topics for newspapers, special interest magazines, and websites. 3/22, 10 a.m.
Miriam Nelson, PhD, author of Strong Women Stay Young, Strong Women Stay Slim, Strong Women, Strong Bones, and Strong Women Eat Well, is Director of the Center for Physical Fitness and Associate Professor of Nutrition at the School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. 3/22.
Florence Nordone, Professional Registered Parliamentarian, is the founding president of the Silver Gavel Unit of Parliamentarians. She is active in the Virginia State Association of Garden Clubs. 3/21, 12 noon.
	Michael Novak, theologian and former U.S. ambassador, is the author of On Two Wings Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding, and over 25 books in philosophy and the theology of culture. His honors include the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, the Boyer Award and the Masaryk Medal. 3/22, 10 a.m.
	Ralph Nuñez, author of The New Poverty: Homeless Families in America, and Cooper's Tale, a children's book, serves as president and CEO of Homes for the Homeless and the Institute for Children and Poverty in New York City. 3/21, 2 p.m.
	John O'Brien's work has appeared in Hudson Review, Massachusetts Review, and many other journals. At Home in Appalachia is his first book. 3/21, 2 p.m. 3/22, 2 p.m.
Mariellen O'Brien, co-author of Spies' Wives, began her interest in travel with a school trip to New York City. For three decades, she lived and worked in Europe and the Far East. She now lives in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. 3/21, 7 p.m.
Robert L. O'Connell is a senior intelligence analyst at the National Ground Intelligence Center. He is the author of four histories, Of Arms and Men, Sacred Vessels, Ride of the Second Horseman and Soul of the Sword. His novel is titled Fast Eddie. 3/21, 4 p.m.
	Patrick K. O'Donnell is the author of Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat and Beyond Valor: World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat. His website is http://www.thedropzone.org. 3/21, 4 p.m.
Robert M. O'Neil is director of The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, professor at UVa School of Law, and author of The First Amendment and Civil Liability and Free Speech and the College Community. 3/23, 10 a.m.
Tim Page, author of Dawn Powell: A Biography, won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1997 for his writings about music for The Washington Post. He was the subject of A Day With Timmy Page (1967), a documentary about his early fascination with silent films. 3/22, 10 a.m.
Cynthia Peters, graduate of the Maryland School for the Deaf, is a professor and introductory English coordinator in the English Department at Gallaudet Unversity. She is the author of Deaf American Literature: From Carnival to the Canon. 3/23, 2 p.m.
	Christopher Phillips, author of Socrates Café, travels "around the globe" facilitating philosophical discussions. His work with kids set the stage for his newest book The Philosopher's Club. He has been a teacher, a journalist and founded of the Society for Philosophical Inquiry. 3/20, 8 p.m.; 3/21, 2 p.m.
	Leola Pierce, author of Covered Bridges in Virginia, was an architectural draftsman and then a civil draftsman at Norfolk Naval Operating Base. She is now retired after 18 years as a bridge engineer. 3/21, 10 a.m.
	Dan Pink, author of Free Agent Nation, worked as a speech-writer for Vice President Al Gore. Pink earned a J.D. from Yale Law School and works as a free agent. 3/19, 7:30 am; 3/22, 4 p.m.
	Michael Pollan wrote The Botany of Desire, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education and A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder. Pollan was recently awarded the first Reuters-World Conservation Union Global Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism. 3/22, 8 p.m.
Simone Poirier-Bures teaches English at Virginia Tech. She is the author of Candyman, a novel, a memoir, That Shining Place, and Nicole, a collection of ‘narratives of memory.' She is an essayist for public radio. 3/21, 10 a.m.
	Ken Power, co-author of In the Company of Good and Evil, was one of the five founding fathers of Value America. An Albemarle resident, his down-to-earth communication style helped bring the retailer to the forefront of America's awareness. 3/23, 10 a.m.
	Bill Press, author of Spin This! is a columnist, television commentator, and political figure. He is co-host of CNN's "Crossfire." Press was the Chairman of the California Democratic Party (1993-96) and Chief of Staff to California State Senator Peter Bohr. 3/22, 12 noon.
Deborah M. Prum is the author of Rats, Bulls and Flying Machines, A History of the Renaissance and co-author of Czars and Czarinas. She's written for many publications including the Virginia Quarterly Review, Ladies' Home Journal, The Writer and Weekly Reader. 3/20, 4 p.m.
	Nesta Ramazani, author of Persian Cooking: A Table of Exotic Delights, is a writer, lecturer, and founding member of the Iranian National Ballet Company. Her memoir is The Dance of the Rose and the Nightingale. 3/20, 7 p.m.; 3/21, 10 a.m.

	Kirk Read's memoir How I Learned to Snap is his account of being openly gay in high school in Lexington, Virginia. He spent two years as editor of Our Own Community Press, Virginia's gay newspaper. 3/21, 12 noon.
	Ronda Rich is the author o f Life in the Pits: Living and Learning in the NASCAR Winston Cup Circuit, and What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should). She is a marketing and public relations consultant. 3/21, 4 p.m.; 3/23, 12 noon.
	Indar Jit Rikhye is a retired Major General of the Bengal Lancers, who spent a number of years working with United Nations peacekeeping forces. He is the founder of the International Peace Academy. Trumpets and Tumults is his memoir. 3/20, 7 p.m.,3/21, 2 p.m.; 3/23, 11 a.m.
Valerie Ritter, Ph.D. wrote her dissertation on Useful Absences and the Nature of the Modern: Hariaudh (1865-1947), his Priyapravas (1914) and Hindi Poetry. 3/22, 4 p.m.
Mara Rockliff, a former senior editor at Holt, Rinehart and Winston, now makes her living as a freelance writer. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post as well as various magazines. She is currently working on a children's novel. 3/20, 4 p.m.
	Colette Rossant, author of Memories of a Lost Egypt; a Memoir With Recipes, was raised in pre-WWII Egypt in luxury by her grandparents and the Arab servants. There she learned much about Egyptian culture and native cuisine. 3/22, 4 p.m.; 3/23, 2 p.m.
	Hazel Rowley is the author of Christina Stead: A Biography and Richard Wright: The Life and Times. A resident of Cambridge, MA, she's affiliated with the Du Bois Institute of Afro-American Studies at Harvard. 3/22, 10 a.m.
	Elizabeth Royte, author of The Tapir's Morning Bath, is a journalist and editor whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, The New Yorker, Outside, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Rolling Stone 3/22, 12 noon.
Lucy Sankey Russell is an attorney whose essays have appeared in the Washington Post, Stanford Magazine, Albemarle and other publications. 3/20, 4 p.m.
	Jerry B. Saffer, author of Wednesday Evenings and Every Other Weekend, was Charlottesville's first private child psychologist. He recently retired to Baltimore. Married,the father of two daughters and four grandchildren, he now devotes his time to religious studies. 3/24, 1:30 p.m.
	Robert Sanabria, author of the memoir Stewing in the Melting Pot, is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and a decorated veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars. He has been a professional sculptor for 25 years. 3/20, 7 p.m.; 3/21, 2 p.m.
Margarete Sandelowski, PhD, RN, FAAN, writes about nurse-technology relations, women's health, and qualitative research. Her books include Devices and Desires: Gender, Technology and American Nursing and With Child In Mind: Studies of the Personal Encounter with Infertility.3/21, 4 p.m.
Bruce W. Sanford, author of Don't Shoot the Messenger and the treatise Libel and Privacy, is a partner with the Washington office of Baker & Hostetler LLP, general counsel to the largest and oldest organization of journalists in the United States. 3/23, 10 a.m.
	Bernard Schatz, author of Soft Tissue Massage for Pain Relief, has studied and treated body and headache pain for over half a century. He uses his innovative treatment approach in his physical therapy private practice. 3/21, 6 p.m.
	Evan Schwartz, former editor of Business Week, is the author of Digital Darwinism, and the upcoming release, The Last Lone Inventor. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. 3/21, 4 p.m.
	Eric Seaborg collaborated with his Nobel laureate father Glenn on the memoir Adventures in the Atomic Age: From Watts to Washington, a tale of science and politics, and with Ellen Dudley on the award-winning travel narrative American Discoveries. 3/21, 4 p.m.; 3/23, 10 a.m.
Tara Seefeldt, a Wiccan for 14 years, is candidate for a doctorate in history from UVa., specializing in the English Renaissance. She coauthored The Wicca Cookbook with Jamie Wood, also a Wiccan and a children's book author. 3/21,10 a.m., 3/21, 12 noon.
	Dr. Peter Selwyn, author of Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor, is professor and chair of Family Medicine and Community Health at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, where he directs the Residency Program in Social Medicine. 3/21, 2 p.m.
M. W. Smith is Associate Professor of English at Bluefield State College and the author of Reading Simulacra: Fatal Theories for Postmodernity. His new book is Fishing the New River Valley. 3/20, 7 p.m.
Robert L. Smith, author of Medic, served as a surgical technician in World War II. He has had professional career in the reform of juvenile and criminal justice at the local, state, and federal levels. His books are Medic and the Carnival of Animals. 3/21, 4 p.m.; 3/23, 12 noon.
Mariflo Stephens' fiction has been collected for anthologies of Contemporary American Women Writers and her essay, "Barbie Doesn't Live Here Anymore" is included in The Barbie Chronicles. She has appeared as a humorist on both the Oprah Winfrey Show and Oxygen network.3/21, 4 p.m.
	Deanne Stillman is the author of The Los Angeles Times bestseller Twentynine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines and the Mojave. Hunter Thompson calls it "a strange and brilliant story by an important American writer." 3/22, 2 p.m. 3/22, 4 p.m.
	Susan Carol Stone, Ph.D., author of At the Eleventh Hour: Caring for My Dying Mother and American Mosaic, leads a meditation group in Charlottesville and founded one in a maximum-security prison. She leads mindful caregiving workshops. 3/24, 3 p.m.
	Stella Suberman grew up in a small town in Tennessee where her family ran a dry goods store. Featured on NPR and C-SPAN 2's Book TV, her memoir The Jew Store was selected by the National Women's Association as one of its five recommended books of the year. 3/23, 2 p.m.
	Sara Mansfield Taber, the author of Bread of Three Rivers: The Story of a French Loaf, is an anthropological psychologist and writer. Awarded a Nonfiction Fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, she now teaches writing at Johns Hopkins University. 3/23, 2 p.m.
Willie Tee, a retired U.S. Army Staff Sergeant, is a Consumer Affairs Investigator, Office of Consumer Affairs. His book The Winds of Destiny is a memoir about life in rural North Carolina. 3/20, 7 p.m.
	Susan Thesenga is author of The Undefended Self. She teaches the Pathwork process of personal transformation and lives at the Sevenoaks Pathwork Center in Madison, Virginia which she co-founded with her husband, Donovan, in 1972. 3/20, 6 p.m.
	Patricia Thomas, author of Big Shot: Passion, Politics and the Struggle for an AIDS Vaccine, was editor of the Harvard Health Letter and has been a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. In 1998 she was awarded the Leonard Silk Journalism Fellowship. 3/22, 12 noon.
Professor Trinh Xuan Thuan, a native of Hanoi, Vietnam is a professor of Astronomy at UVa. He has written several books for general readership, including The Secret Melody, and Chaos and Harmony. His latest book is The Quantum and the Lotus, about the intersections of science and Buddhism. 3/24, 1:30 p.m.
William E. Trout, III, Phd, co-author of Mr. Jefferson's River: The Rivanna, is a geneticist from Richmond who has studied canals and navigations throughout the United States. He co-founded the American Canal Society and the Virginia Canals and Navigations Society. 3/21, 6 p.m.
Frank Vander Linden is a retired White House correspondent, who has covered politics since 1945. He now writes political history, such as Lincoln: The Road to War, the Real Reagan and The Turning Point: Jefferson's Battle for the Presidency. 3/21, 2 p.m.
Roy Wagner is Professor of Anthropology at UVa. and author. His newest book is An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and Its Meaning and Significance for the World of Anthropology. 3/24, 1:30 p.m.
	Dennis Weaver won an Emmy for his role in television's Gunsmoke. Weaver co-founded the Institute of Ecolonomics to find solutions for a sustainable ecology and economy. His memoir is All the World's A Stage. 3/23, 4 p.m.
	Christopher Whitcomb is the author of Cold Zero and a 15-year-veteran of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team. He is currently a Counter-Terrorism analyst for NBC, writes for GQ magazine and is working on his second book. 3/22, 6 p.m.
	Roger Wilkins is an author, journalist, scholar, and public servant. He is the winner of a Pulitzer prize for Journalism. His new book is Jefferson's Pillow :The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. 3/22, 12 noon.
	Craig Winn, co-author of In the Company of Good and Evil, began as a Manufacturers' Representative in southern California. He founded Value America and was the father of its vision and early growth. 3/23, 10 a.m.
	William H. Woodwell, Jr. is an independent writer and editor. Coming to Term: A Father's Story of Birth, Loss, and Survival tells the story of the extremely premature birth of Woodwell's twin daughters in 1997. 3/23, 4 p.m.
David Wyatt, professor of English at the University of Maryland, is the author of many books on American literature, and the editor of John Steinbeck's East of Eden and New Essays on the Grapes of Wrath. 3/22, 4 p.m.

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