Below are a few more photos from the Seventh Annual Virginia Festival of the Book, held March 21 – 25, 2001. The first page of our Album has others.

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Book lovers meet their favorite authors (from rear of table to front) Lee Smith, Paule Marshall and Clyde Edgerton.
Authors Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry sign a copy of Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats for a young fan in her hat.
Devotees of the Mitford series are regaled by novelist Jan Karon at the Festival Reception.
Novelist and MacArthur fellow Paule Marshall reads to a Culbreth Theater audience from her latest book. Marshall was the Festival's Luncheon Speaker.
Memoirists Lois Gould, Charles Marsh, Richard Wertime and Elizabeth Hodges discuss their books in the intimate setting at New Dominion Bookshop. This event and three others were rebroadcast on C-SPAN's BookTV.
Jayne Cortez signs books after her jazz poetry program at the Culbreth Theater.
Feminist theorist bell hooks shares her views with a packed audience at the Curry School of Education.
Lawrence Hagerty accepts the first prize for The Spirit of the Internet at the first Independent e-Book Awards, held during the VABook! Publishers Day luncheon.
Dr. Harlan Lane discusses social constructions of deafness in the American Sign Language / Deaf Culture Lecture series at UVA.
Poet Jayne Cortez performs her poetry with the jazz musicians of the Untempered Ensemble.

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