Nonfiction Programs

Sam Abell is a long-time photographer for National Geographic. He photographed all the material for Lewis & Clark: Voyage of Discovery, authored with Stephen Ambrose. 3/26 12 p.m.

Paula Anderson-Green received her Ph.D. in Southern literature and folklife from Georgia State University, has a home in the New River mountain area, and is on the board of Matthews Living History Farm. Her credits include an NEH seminars, academic articles, and adjunct professorships at colleges in the Atlanta area, recently Kennesaw State University. 3/25 4 p.m.

Edward L. Ayers, author of In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863, is Professor of History at UVa. Ayers' Promise of the New South was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. 3/27 10 p.m.

Leah Bendavid-Val is the author of four books on photography, two
published by National Geographic: Stories on Paper & Glass and
National Geographic: The Photographs. She organized a major
exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. for her book
Propaganda & Dreams. She is Editorial Director of National Geographic Photography Books. 3/26 12 p.m.

Jim Blair, whose photography is included in Through the Lens, was a staff photographer with National Geographic from 1962 until his retirement in 1994. He has received numerous national awards and has taught photojournalism in Washington, D.C., New York and elsewhere. 3/26 12 p.m.

Joseph Blotner's work includes biographies of William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren. He has taught at the Universities of Idaho, Virginia, North Carolina, and Arizona and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. 3/26 12 p.m.

Judy Blunt is the author of Breaking Clean, a memoir of growing up on the prairies of Montana in the 50s, 60s and 70s. She currently teaches creative nonfiction and memoir at the University of Montana, Missoula. 3/26 8 p.m.

Chris Bolgiano's book, True Tales of Sustainable Forestry, won two literary awards in 2003. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wilderness Magazine, Sierra, and done commentaries on NPR's "Living on Earth." 3/27 12 p.m.

Andrea Buchanan, author of Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It, is managing editor of LiteraryMama.com, an online literary magazine for the maternally inclined. Before becoming a mother, she was a classical pianist. 3/25 10 a.m.

Paul Buhle is the author or editor of 30 books, including Blacklisted: The Film Lover's Guide to the Hollywood Blacklist. He is a senior lecturer at Brown University and has written for The Nation, The Village Voice and The Guardian (UK). 3/27 12 p.m.

Sophy Burnham, author of The Treasure of Montségur, Revelations, and A Book of Angels, is a playwright, novelist and nonfiction writer. Author of 13 books, her works include three New York Times bestsellers. Her articles and essays have been published worldwide. 3/25 8 p.m.; 3/26 6 p.m.

Cynthia Jacobs Carter, Ed. D., author of Africana Woman, is development director at Howard University and adjunct professor at Georgetown and George Washington Universities. She developed and co-curated the White House Millennium Council exhibition "Africana Woman at the Dawn of the New Millennium." 3/26 2 p.m.

Elaine Dowe Carter is Executive Director of Christiansburg Institute, Inc., and one of the principal architects of its re-founding as a community learning center and museum. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. 3/25 4 p.m.

Mary Cartledgehayes, author of Grace: A Memoir, is a United Methodist minister. She holds an M. Div. from Duke University and an M.F.A. in writing from Goucher College. Her essay "Blue Christmas" was nominated by Christian Century magazine for a 2003 Church Press Association award. 3/25 10 a.m.

Jane Turner Censer, author of The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895, teaches history at George Mason University. She has written or edited five books including North Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800-1860. 3/25 2 p.m.

Avery Chenoweth, author of Albemarle: A Story of Landscape and American Identity, is a resident of Charlottesville whose work has appeared in Harper's, Spy, Lingua Franca, and The New York Times. He is the author of a novel-in-stories, Wingtips. 3/25 10 a.m.

Catherine Clinton, author of Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, received an undergraduate degree in Afro-American Studies from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in history from Princeton. With more than 15 books currently in print, she has taught at Harvard, Brandeis, Brown, and Wesleyan. 3/27 4 p.m.

Mary Collins, author of the Essential Daughter: Changing Expectations for Girls at Home, is a freelance writer and teacher from Alexandria. In recent years, she's worked as a writer and editor at National Geographic and the Smithsonian, and taught at John Hopkins University. 3/25 2 p.m.

Marcia L. Conner, author of Learn More Now, is managing director of Ageless Learner, and a Batten Fellow at UVa Darden School. She launched PeopleSoft University, was senior manager at Microsoft and co-edited Creating a Learning Culture. 3/24 4 p.m.

George Core, editor of the Sewanee Review, is a regular contributor to the Virginia Quarterly Review and Book World, among other scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers. He is the co-editor of several books, including The Selected Letters of John Crowe Ransom. 3/27 10 a.m., 12 p.m.

Tom Crockett is a writer, ordained minister, and shamanic spiritual counselor. In addition to Stone Age Wisdom, he has written The Artist Inside: A Spiritual Guide to CultivatingYour Creative Self and Turtle Island Dreaming: A Novel of Sanctuary. 3/26 8 p.m.

Martha Dahlen is the author of four books on popular aspects of Chinese culture. She lived in Hong Kong for twenty years, teaching botany, editing English, and exploring all things Chinese. She now lives in Campbell, California. 3/25 6 p.m.

Margaret Daiyi, co-author of Country of the Heart, is a senior member of the Mak Mak (white breasted eagle) clan whose homeland is in the Northern Territory of Australia. Multi-lingual and multi-skilled, she has taken on major responsibilities for sustaining Mak Mak country. 3/26 6 P.M.

Tanya L. K. Denckla, author of The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food, is a gardener and professional mediator at the UVa Institute for Environmental Negotiation. She co-founded and serves as faculty for the Virginia Natural Resources Leadship Institute. 3/27 3 p.m.

Michael Dirda is the author of An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland and Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments. A recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism, he has written for The Washington Post Book World for 25 years. 3/26 2 p.m.

Karen O. Dowd, author of The Ultimate Guide to Getting the Career You Want, earned her Ph.D. from UVa and her M.S. from Indiana University. She is an Instructor of Management and a senior associate consultant for The Empower Group, London. 3/24 5:30 p.m.

Stuart E. Eizenstat, author of Imperfect Justice, served in several high-level positions the Carter and Clinton administrations, including the State, Treasury, and Commerce Departments from 1993-2001. He is currently the head of international trade and finance at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. 3/27 2 p.m.

Paula Elsey, editor of Stone Ground: A History of Union Mills, has completed research and publications for the Fairfax County History Commission, Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority, Gunston Hall Plantation and the Historical Society of Fairfax County, Inc. 3/28 1:30 p.m.

Catriona Tudor Erler, author of Poolscaping, has written eight garden books and numerous articles that have appeared in publications such as Architectural Digest and Southern Accents. She gardens in Vienna, Virginia. 3/28 1:30 p.m.

Howard Ernst, author of Chesapeake Bay Blues, lives in Annapolis. He is assistant professor of political science at the United States Naval Academy and senior scholar at the UVa Center for Poliltics. He earned his Ph.D. from UVa in 2000. 3/24 8 p.m.

Mark Essig, author of Thomas Edison & and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death, has a Ph.D. in American History from Cornell University, where he specialized in the history of science, cultural history and American literature. He lives in Los Angeles. 3/26 4 p.m.

Amitai Etzioni, author of My Brother's Keeper: A Memoir and a Message, is best known as the founder of the communitarian movement. A Professor at George Washington University, he is the editor of The Responsive Community, and has written numerous books on political and social theory. 3/24 2 p.m., 6 p.m.

Courtney Febbroriello, author of Wife of the Chef, is the co-owner of Metro Bis restaurant in Simsbury, Connecticut, along with her chef husband, Chris Prosperi. Her book is a humorous memoir about the first two years of owning a bistro. 3/25 10 a.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m.

Jennifer Fleischner is the author of Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave and Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives. She is chair of the English Department at Adelphi University. 3/27 4 p.m.

Gerald P. Fogarty, S.J., is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Religious Studies and History at UVa and the author of Commonwealth Catholicism: A History of the Catholic Church in Virginia. 3/25 10 a.m.

Linda Ford, contributor to Country of the Heart: An Indigenous Australian Homeland, is a lecturer with the Northern Territory University Faculty of Education, Health and Science. She is a Mak Mak (white eagle) woman and a traditional owner of country southwest of Darwin. 3/26 6 p.m.

Vonita White Foster, Ph.D., is the Director of the National Slavery Museum and the author of Silent Trumpets of Justice: Integration's Failure in Prince Edward County. She was the first African-American woman to serve on the Hanover County school board, serving since 1996, and initiated H.J. Resolution 613: Regret Over Prince Edward School Closures. 3/26 6 p.m.

Faulkner Fox, author of Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life, has worked as a performance artist, lobbyist and media spokesperson. She teaches creative writing at Duke University and is married with two young sons. 3/25 10 a.m.

Scot French is an assistant professor and associate director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at UVa. The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory is his first book. 3/27 12 p.m.

Rebecca T. Frischkorn, co-author of Half My World: The Garden of Anne Spencer, has practiced landscape design for 26 years. She is currently producing GardenStory, a 13-episode PBS series on American gardens and land stewardship. 3/25 10 a.m.

Fabiola D. Gaines, R.D., L.D., is author of The New Soul Food Cookbook for People With Diabetes and Slim Down Sister. She is one of the founding partners of Hebni Nutrition Consultants, Inc., and is currently at work on a new book, Month of Meals. 3/27 2 p.m.

Gary Gallagher, Ph.D., author of The American Civil War: This Mighty Scourge of War, and several other Civil War titles, is the John L. Nau III Professor of the History of the American Civil War at UVa. 3/27 2 p.m.

James M. Goldgeier is the co-author with Michael McFaul of Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy toward Russia after the Cold War. He is director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University. 3/26 10 a.m.

Michael Grosso, Ph.D., author of Experiencing the Next World Now, is interested in psychical research and philosophical practice. On the Board of Directors of the American Philosophical Practitioners, he teaches ancient philosophy as therapy at UVa's School of Professionals Studies. 3/26 6 p.m.

Philip F. Gura, author of C. F. Martin and His Guitars, teaches English and American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author or editor of nine books, including the prize-winning America’s Instrument: The Banjo in the 19th Century. 3/25 4 p.m.

Dorothy Height, since the 1930s an activist and leader in the civil rights and women's movements, worked with Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King, and Roy Wilkins. She has been honored internationally and awarded more than 24 honorary degrees. 3/26 2 p.m.

Robin Marantz Henig is the author of Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution and The Monk in the Garden, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. She and her husband Jeff have two daughters and live in New York. 3/25 4 p.m.; 3/26 4 p.m.

Rob Hewitt, author of Where the River Flows: Finding Faith in Rockingham County, Va., 1726-1876, is a former fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and lives in Afton, Virginia. 3/25 10 a.m.

Ella E. Schneider Hilton, author of Displaced Person, chronicles her childhood -- from the purges of Stalinist U.S.S.R. to the refugee camps of Nazi and postwar Germany to the cotton fields of Jim Crow Mississippi, before granting her access to the American dream. 3/24 2 p.m.

Dorothy Holcomb is a native of Prince Edward County, Virginia. As a youth she was locked out of school when schools were closed to racial integration. 3/26 6 p.m.

Woody Holton has taught at the University of Richmond since the fall of 2000, when the Organization of American Historians awarded his first book, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia, its Merle Curti award. 3/25 6 p.m.

James D. Hornfischer is the author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, praised by Publishers Weekly as "One of the finest World War II naval action narratives in recent years.” He is president of Hornfischer Literary Management, L.P., known for its broad range of nonfiction authors. 3/26 2 p.m.; 3/27 4 p.m.

Doug Hornig, author of The Boys of October, the 1975 World Series, has published mysteries plus fiction and nonfiction features in periodicals such as Business Week, Playboy, Penthouse, The Writer, and Whole Earth Review. 3/27 4 p.m.

James A. Huston, author of Biography of a Battalion: The Life and Times of an Infantry Battalion in Europe in World War II, was a battalion operations officer with 35th Division. He taught at Purdue, the Naval War College , the National War College and was Dean of Lynchburg College.

William A. James, Sr., author of The Skin Color Syndrome Among African-Americans, attended Virginia State University, UVa, and Piedmont Virginia Community College. A freelance writer, he lives in Charlottesville.

Janis Jaquith is the author of Birdseed Cookies: A Fractured Memoir, a collection of radio commentaries she has broadcast nationally on PRI's "Marketplace" and locally on NPR-station WVTF in Roanoke. She's a columnist for the Daily Progress. 3/27 2 p.m., 4 p.m.

Robert Jensen, Ph.D., is a professor of media law, ethics and politics at the University of Texas and author of Citizens fo the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity. He also writes opinion and analytic pieces for alternative and mainstream media. 3/26 12 p.m.

Chris Johns, Associate Editor, National Geographic magazine, started as a contract photographer in 1985 and joined the magazine as a staff photographer in 1995. Johns has photographed more than 20 articles for National Geographic, eight of which have been cover stories. 3/26 12 p.m.

Stefan Kanfer, author of Ball of Fire, a biography of Lucille Ball, has also written Groucho, The Eighth Sin, and A Summer World among others. He was a writer and editor at Time for more than 20 years, and is now in the Distinguished Writer Program at Southampton College Long Island University. 3/26 12 p.m.

James M. Kauffman, author of Education Deform: Bright People Sometimes say Stupid Things about Education, has been a classroom teacher. A professor at UVa, he has published widely about education. 3/24 4 p.m.

Dean King, author of Skeletons on the Zahara, has written nine books, including the biography Patrick O’Brian: A Life. As part of his research on skeletons, he traveled to the Western Sahara to retrace the path of Captain John Riley and the crew of the Commerce. 3/26 12 p.m.

Lee Pearson Knapp is a lifelong Virginian and a graduate of the College of William and Mary. For the last fifteen years, she has run a custom-art business and has recently published her first book of memoirs, Grace in the First Person. 3/24 2 p.m.

Mickey Knox's upcoming memoir is The Good, the Bad & the Dolce Vita: The Adventures of an Itinerant Actor in Tinseltown, Paris & Rome. Knox has appeared in dozens of movies and written the English adaptations of many European films, including The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. 3/27 12 p.m.

Jon Kukla, author of A Wilderness So Immense, has directed historical research and publishing at the Library of Virginia and has been curator and director of the Historic New Orleans Collection. In 2000 he returned to Virginia as director of the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation. 3/25 4 p.m.

Bob Kuska, author of Hot Potato: How Washington and New York Gave Birth to Black Basketball and Changed America's Game Forever. He is a science writer at the National Institute of Health. 3/27 4 p.m.

John Lane, author of Chattooga: Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River and Waist Deep in Black Water, makes the wilderness and place a theme in his work. He has traveled and lived extensively in the wilds of the United States. 3/26 10 a.m.

Kate Lardner's first book is Shut Up He Explained: A Memoir of a Blacklisted Kid. The niece/step-daughter of screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr., and daughter of actress Frances Chaney, Lardner attended a number of institutes of higher learning on the way to becoming an actress, artist and writer. 3/27 12 p.m.

Jeanne Larsen is a professor of English at a small independent university in southwest Virginia. She is the author of Manchu Palaces, Bronze Mirror, and Silk Road, as well as poetry and creative nonfiction. 3/27 10 a.m.

 

Christopher Lear, is the author of Sub 4:00 and Running with the Buffaloes. An All-American in track and a two-time cross country captain at Princeton University, he lives with wife Shawn in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 3/25 7 p.m.

Richard Leider, author of The Inventurers, Repacking Your Bags, The Power of Purpose and Whistle While You Work, is a nationally recognized coach, speaker and best-selling author. He has consulted for 3M, American Express, the Mayo Clinic and Northwestern Mutual. 3/24 7:30 a.m.

Bruce E. Levine, Ph.D., author of Commonsense Rebellion: Taking Back Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks, Corporations, and a World Gone Crazy, is a clinical psychologist practicing in Cincinnati, Ohio. He's recently been published in Salon.com, Adbusters and Z Magazine. 3/27 2 p.m.

James E. Lewis, Jr., teaches American history at Kalamazoo College. He is the author of The Louisiana Purchase: Jefferson's Noble Bargain?, John Quincy Adams: Policymaker for the Union, and The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood. 3/25 4 p.m.

Eugene Linden, author of The Octopus and the Orangutan: New Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity; The Parrot's Lament; Silent Partners; and other animal and environmental titles is an award-winning journalist and author who lives in Nyack, New York, and Washington, D.C. 3/24 2 p.m.

Robert Llewellyn, author-photographer of Albemarle, has more than 30 books of photography to his credit, including Upland Virginia, The Academical Village, and Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown: America's Historic Triangle. His book, Washington, the Capital, was an official diplomatic gift of the White House and the State Department. 3/25 10 a.m.

Bill Lohmann, author of Are We There Yet?, is an award-winning feature writer and columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He previously worked for The Richmond News Leader and United Press International in Richmond, Orlando and Atlanta. He is a native Richmonder. 3/26 2 p.m.

Stephen Longenecker, author of Shenandoah Religion, is a professor of history at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University (M.A. and Ph.D.), he has published several books and numerous articles on American religious history. 3/25 10 a.m.

George G. Loving, native Virginian and author of Woodbine Red Leader, is a retired Air Force officer. A World War II and Korean War fighter pilot, he subsequently advanced to lieutenant general and served as Commander, U.S. Forces Japan. 3/26 2 p.m.

Scott Mactavish, author of The New Dad’s Survival Guide, is also a filmmaker and journalist. His feature screenplay Arlo’s Rhythm is currently in pre-production and his print credits include IndieWire, Film Threat and WindCheck Sailing Magazine.3/25 10 a.m.

Valerie Maholmes, Ph.D., is the Harris Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center and Director of Policy for the Center's School Development Program. Currently, she is a Fellow at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. 3/26 8 p.m.

Peter Manseau, co-author of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible, is a founding editor of the online magazine KillingTheBuddha.com. Publishers Weekly has called it "some of the most original and insightful spiritual writing to come out of America since Jack Kerouac first hit the road." 3/26 6 p.m.; 3/27 12 p.m.

Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., has eaten fried crickets in Niger, appeared on prime-time TV in France, and performed the can-can in America. Mother of three, she is the editor of Toddler: Real-Life Stories of Those Fickle, Irrational, Urgent, Tiny People We Love. 3/26 10 a.m.

Lark E. Mason, Jr., author of Asian Art, is an expert in Chinese art appearing on the PBS series "The Antiques Roadshow." He is the owner of iGavel.com, an online antique auction site, and is a fine arts agent with Timothy Sammons, Inc., in New York. 3/24 4 p.m.

Charles Mauro, author of The Battle of Chantilly (Ox Hill), A Monumental Storm, is President of the Herndon Historical Society, and frequent speaker on photography and the Civil War. He has degrees from the University of Maryland and Temple University, and he is writing a history of Herndon. 3/28 1:30 p.m.

Patrick McGilligan is co-author of Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist and author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in the Darkness and Light. His biographies include Fritz Lang and George Cukor--both New York Times Notable Books of the Year--and biographies of Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Altman. 3/26 12 p.m.; 3/27 12 p.m.

Bryan McKenzie has been a columnist at the Daily Progress in Charlottesville for a decade. He's won several Virginia Press Association awards (best columns in 1996 and 2002) and journalism awards in Michigan, Colorado and North Carolina. He has covered politics, police and government in five states and is a 1982 graduate of the University of Virginia. 3/26 2 p.m.

Murray Milner, Jr., author of Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: American Teenagers, Schools, and the Culture of Consumption, is Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, UVa, and author of Status and Sacredness, Unequal Care, and The Illusion of Equality. 3/27 4 p.m.

Cara Ellen Modisett is associate editor of Blue Ridge Country magazine. A graduate of James Madison University, she co-produces a weekly arts show for WVTF public radio and has won state and national awards in writing, editing and broadcast. 3/24 2 p.m.

Hullihen Williams Moore, author-photographer of Shenandoah: Views of Our National Park, has had portfolios in Blue Ridge Country and Albemarle magazines and his photographs are available on five Shenandoah National Park poster. His work is also the subject of a Virginia Museum for Fine Arts-sponsored traveling exhibit. 3/24 2 p.m.

Barbara Bradlyn Morris, author of Crazy for Cats, has been a freelance writer for 30 years, mostly in travel, humor and nostalgia. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, House Beautiful and Bon Appetit. 3/24 2 p.m.

Victor S. Navasky is the author of the recently re-released book Naming Names, which won a National Book award. Navasky is publisher and editorial director of The Nation, and Delacorte Professor of Magazines at Columbia University. He is working on a book about magazines. 3/27 12 p.m.

Molly Ness, author of Lessons to Learn: Voices from the Front Lines of Teach For America, is a native of Baltimore who joined Teach For America and taught middle school in Oakland. She is a Ph.D. student in English and Reading Education at UVa. 3/24 4 p.m.

Ross Netherton, author of The Preservation of History in Fairfax County, Virginia, has served on or been and advisor to several historical commissions in Northern Virginia. A draftsman and commentator on state and local historic preservation legistlation, he has written, lectured and consulted on historical research and preservation. 3/28 1:30 p.m.

Jennifer Niesslein, co-editor of Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, is a winner of this year's Utne Independent Press Readers' Choice Award. Her work has appeared in The Nation, on NPR's "Morning Edition" and elsewhere. She lives in Charlottesville. 3/26 10 a.m.

Kristin Ohlson, author of Stalking the Divine, has published articles and essays in The New York Times, Salon, Ms., O, Discover, Tin House, and Poets & Writers. She received the Ohio Arts Council's major fellowship for fiction for 2003-2004. 3/27 12 p.m.

Elizabeth L. O’Leary, author of From Morning to Night: Domestic Service in Maymont House and the Gilded Age South, is Associate Curator of American Arts at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. She has served as guest curator and consultant to Maymont Foundation for a major project about domestic service. 3/25 2 p.m.

Steve Olson, author of Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition, was a 2002 National Book Award finalist for Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes. He writes about science for many prominent periodicals. 3/27 2 p.m.

Robert M. O’Neil is Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. His works include “The First Amendment and Civil Liability,” and “Free Speech in the College Community.” 3/27 10 a.m.

Les Payne, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is deputy managing editor at Newsday and a columnist for The Los Angeles Times syndicate. He has appeared on numerous radio/television shows including "Nightline," "Good Morning America," "Meet the Press," "Phil Donahue Show" and CNN's "Year in Review." 3/26 12 p.m.

Linda Perlstein, author of Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers, has worked for The Washington Post since 1993, as an editor and then an education reporter. She lives in Washington, D.C. and Shenandoah County. 3/27 4 p.m.

John Pollack, author of Cork Boat, worked as a foreign correspondent and a campaign consultant. A winner of the O. Henry World Championship Pun-Offs, he is a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and currently lives in New York. 3/26 10 a.m.

Martín Prechtel, author of The Toe Bone and the Tooth, is a thinker and writer whose oral and written work shows the subtlety, irony and pre-modern vitality in any living language. Martín lives in New Mexico, teaching internationally through story, music, ritual and writing. 3/24 7 p.m.

Betsy Prioleau, author of Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love, is a UVa alum who received her Ph.D. in English at Duke. She has been a professor of English and World Literature at Manhattan College and scholar-in-residence at New York University. She lives in Manhattan. 3/25 10 a.m.

Mara Purl is the author of Act Right: A Manual for the On-Camera Actor and The Milford-Haven Novels, based on "Milford-Haven USA," which aired originally on BBC radio. She played regular "Darla Cook"on the NBC soap "Days of Our Lives." 3/27 10 a.m.

Reuben M. Rainey, co-author of Half My World: The Garden of Anne Spencer, has taught history of landscape architecture at UVa for 25 years. His publications include studies of Italian Renaissance gardens, battlefield preservation and works of 20th Century American landscape architecture. 3/25 10 a.m.

John H. Rappole is a research scientist at the Smithsonian institution's Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia. His books include Birds of the Mid-Atlantic and Where to Find Them, Birds of Texas, Neotropical Migratory Birds, Birds of the Southwest and The Ecology of Migrant Birds. 3/23 7 p.m.

Tommy Reamon author of Rough Diamonds: A Coach's Journey, has been a public high school football coach for years in Newport News. He has coached and shaped such NFL greats as Kwamie Lassiter, Aaron Brooks, and Michael Vick. 3/26 4 p.m.

Barbara Rich, theater critic and columnist for The Observer, has contributed to the The Washington Post, Daily Progress, C'VILLE and Albemarle magazine and has won four Virginia Press Association awards. She has also published short stories and taught creative writing. 3/26 2 p.m.

John Ritchie opened Governor Linwood Holton's first campaign office in 1969 and served as his executive assistant from 1970-74, when Holton opposed massive resistance. Ritchie practiced law in Richmond, and was executive director of the Virginia Housing Development Authority. He is a graduate of UVa and Harvard Law School. 3/25 4 p.m.

Jim Robbins, author of Last Refuge: The Environmental Showdown in the American West, has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times for the past 20 years, writing primarily about Western and environmental issues. He has appeared as an analyst on ABC's Nightline, NBC's The Today Show, and NPR's "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." Author of A Symphony in the Brain: The Evolution of the New Brain Wave Biofeedback, he lives in Helena, Montana. 3/26 8 p.m.

Lori S. Robinson, author of I Will Survive: The African-American Guide to Healing from Sexual Assault and Abuse, is a rape survivor and freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Crisis, Essence and The Source. Her honors include a National Association of Black Journalists Award. 3/27 12 p.m.

Charles P. Roland, author of My Odyssey Through History: Memoirs of War and Academe, is professor of history emeritus at the University of Kentucky. Author or coauthor of many books, including An American Iliad and The Improbable Era, and former president of the Southern Historical Association, he is a recipient of the Civil War Education Association’s William Woods Hassler Award. 3/24 2 p.m.

Deborah Bird Rose, author of Country of the Heart: An Indigenous Australian Homeland, is a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University. Her other books include Nourishing Terrains and Hidden Histories. 3/26 6 p.m.

Mark Rotella’s travel memoir is Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria. An editor at Publishers Weekly, he holds a B. A. in Russian literature from Columbia University. His writing has appeared in The New York Times and elsewhere. 3/26 10 a.m., 2 p.m.

Jeffrey Ruggles, author of The Unboxing of Henry Brown, is Associate Curator for Prints and Photographs at the Virginia Historical Society. Previously he operated the Main Street Grill, a Richmond restaurant known for its felicitous integration and Stone Age hotcakes. 3/27 12 p.m.

Victoria Sanford, author of Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute on Violence and Survival at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. She is also the author of Violencia y Genocidio en Guatemala. 3/26 6 p.m.; 3/27 4 p.m.

Amy Schapiro, a native of New Jersey and author of Millicent Fenwick: Her Way, works as a social science analyst at the U.S. Department of Justice. The biography arose from her college thesis on Rep. Fenwick. 3/25 10 a.m.

Stephen C. Schlesinger is the author of Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations. He is director of the World Policy Institute at the New School University in New York City. He is a specialist on Clinton and Bush foreign policy. 3/26 4 p.m.

Mary Lee Settle, author of Spanish Recognitions: The Road from the Past, is also the author of Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, she won the National Book Award in 1978 for Blood Tie. 3/26 12 p.m.

Jeff Sharlet, co-author of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible, is a founding editor of the online magazine KillingTheBuddha.com. Publishers Weekly has called it "some of the most original and insightful spiritual writing to come out of America since Jack Kerouac first hit the road." 3/27 12 p.m.

James Shreeve, author of The Genome War, graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop before he turned to science writing. He has also written The Neanderthal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins, Lucy's Child and Nature: The Other Earthlings. 3/25 4 p.m.

Mary Montague Sikes used her love of photography and history to create Hotels to Remember, a 220-page coffee table book. Her novel Hearts Across Forever won first place in the National Federation of Press Women 2002 Communications contest. 3/24 2 p.m.

Ken Silverstein, author of The Radioactive Boy Scout and Private Warriors, is an investigative reporter with the Washington, D.C., bureau of The Los Angeles Times. He previously was a contributing editor to Harper's magazine and contributed to Slate, The Nation, Mother Jones, The American Prospect and other publications. 3/27 2 p.m.

Bernestine Singley, a Harvard Law School graduate and author of When Race Becomes Real, practiced law for nearly 15 years before starting her own firm, Straighttalk, in 1990, which advises private and public sector CEOs and management staffs around the world. 3/26 12 p.m.

Sam Smith, author of Why Bother?: Getting a Life in a Locked-Down Land and Sam Smith's Great American Political Repair Manual, is the editor of The Progressive Review. He has been editing alternative publications for forty years. 3/24 4 p.m.; 6 p.m.

Rod Smolla is the Dean of the University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law. He is the author of many books and articles on constitutional law scholar, as well as a constitutional litigator in courts throughout the country, including the United States Supreme Court. 3/26 8 p.m.

John D. Spalding, author of A Pilgrim's Digress writes "The Sick Soul" column for Beliefnet.com. He's written for The Week, The Christian Century, and Maxim, and his work appears in The Best Christian Writing 2004. He has a master's degree from Harvard Divinity School. 3/27 12 p.m.

John G. Sparks is the author of The Roots of Appalachian Christianity: the Life and Legacy of Elder Shubal Stearns. 3/25 10 a.m.

Walter Staib, author of City Tavern Cookbook and City Tavern Baking & Desserts, is chef and restauranteur of the renowned City Tavern in Philadelphia, which specializes in 18th century American cuisine. 3/26, 4 p.m., 3/27, 2 p.m. 4 p.m.

Orin Starn, author of Ishi's Brain, is a professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. His other books include Nightwatch, about life and politics in the Andes of South America and The Peru Reader. He lives in Durham, North Carolina. 3/25 2 p.m.

John Stokes, author of Above the Storm, was a leader of the 1951 Moton Student Strike in Prince Edward County, Virginia. He is a graduate of Virginia State University, an Army veteran and a retired principal of Baltimore City Schools. 3/24 12 p.m.; 3/26 6 p.m.

Earl Swift, author of Where They Lay: Searching for America's Lost Soldiers, joined his first recovery mission in Southeast Asia in 2001 as a staff writer for The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. His work has appeared in Parade and Best Newspaper Writing 2000. 3/25 2 p.m.

M. Rick Turner has served as Dean of Uva's Office of African-American Affairs since August 1988. Since his arrival, the University has boosted its African-American graduation rate to 87%, the highest of any public insitution in the nation. 3/26 8 p.m.

Janet Wallach is the author of the novel Seraglio and the biography Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell. She is co-author of three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict. She is also Senior Vice President of Seeds of Peace. 3/27 2 p.m.

Peter Wallenstein, author of Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law--An American History, teaches history at Virginia Tech. He has also written the forthcoming Blue Laws and Black Codes: Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-Century Virginia. 3/25 6 p.m.

Roniece Weaver, author of The New Soul Food Cookbook for People with Diabetes and Slim Down Sister, is a founder and executive director of Hebni Nutrition Consultants, a community-based nonprofit that educates high-risk, culturally diverse populations about nutrition strategies. 3/27 2 p.m.

Donovan Webster is author of The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II. His last book, Aftermath: The Remnants of War, won the 1997 Lionel Gelber prize for the year's best book promoting international relations and understanding and is now a feature documentary film. He lives in central Virginia. 3/26 10 a.m.

Henry Wiencek, author of An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America, is a Senior Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. He won the National Book Critics Circle award for The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White. 3/24 4 p.m.; 3/27 4 p.m.

Stephanie Wilkinson is co-founder and co-editor of Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers. She has a Ph.D. in religious history from UVa, has worked as a journalist and lives with her husband and two children in Lexington. 3/26/10 a.m.

CiCi Williamson is the author of The Best of Virginia Farms Cookbook and Tourbook: Recipes, People, Places and five other cookbooks. The McLean, Virginia resident and photographer has written 1,500 travel and food articles and hosts a PBS television show. 3/27 4 p.m.

Olwen Woodier, author of Apple Cookbook and Corn, is a nationally syndicated feature writer with The New York Times and author of five cookbooks. She won the Tastemaker Award, now known as the James Beard Foundation KitchenAid Book Award. 3/26 4 p.m.

Carl Zimmer, author of Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain and How It Changed the World, writes for Science, Newsweek, National Geographic, and Natural History. His other works include At the Water's Edge, Parasite Rex and Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea. 3/25 4 p.m.; 3/26 4 p.m.

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