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ParticipantsNonfictionWould you like to receive the festival email newsletter, VABook-news? Rudy Abramson is author of Spanning the Century, the Life of W. Averell Harriman, and Hallowed Ground: Preserving America's Heritage. He is co-editor of Encyclopedia of Appalachia. For 25 years, he was a Washington correspondent for The Los Angeles Times. 3/23 noon, 2 p.m.
Faith Andrews Bedford, author of Barefoot Summers, is a contributor to Country Living, where she writes the "Kids in the Country" column. Her essays have appeared in Reader's Digest and several of the Chicken Soup books. 3/22 6 p.m.; 3/23 2 p.m. Jeff Biggers, author of The United States of Appalachia, has worked as a writer, editor, educator, and radio correspondent. His award-winning stories have appeared on NPR, PRI, and in various newspapers and magazines. American Book Award in 2005, for No Lonesome Road. He currently divides his time between Illinois and Italy. 3/23 noon Joan Biskupic is the author of Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice. Biskupic was a reporter for The Washington Post for eight years, writing about the U.S. Supreme Court, and won the Everett Dirksen award for Distinguished Reporting on Congress for her coverage of the Clarence Thomas hearings. 3/24 6 p.m.
Thomas Brooks heads the Conservation Synthesis Department in Conservation International's Center for Applied Biodiversity Science. An ornithologist with extensive field experience in the Philippines, Indonesia, Kenya, and Paraguay, he has authored 134 scientific and popular articles, including 8 each in Science and Nature. 3/23 4 p.m. George Brosi is the editor of Appalachian Heritage, a regional literary magazine. He is also the co-editor of No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems of Don West, which won the American Book Award in 2005. 3/26 1:30 p.m.
Andrea J. Buchanan, managing editor of LiteraryMama.com, is the author of Mother Shock and editor of the anthologies It's a Boy, It's a Girl, and Literary Mama. 3/24 8 p.m. Barbara Burkhardt published William Maxwell: A Literary Life, the first major critical study of the novelist and New Yorker editor based on a decade of interviews. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Springfield. 3/24 noon Pete Capuano is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at the University of Virginia. He is currently completing a dissertation on hand gesture in the Victorian novel. 3/24 4 p.m. Sheryll Cashin, author of The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream, is a Georgetown University law professor and former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. 3/24 10 a.m.
Fran Connor is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of Virginia. His scholarly interests include: the history of the book, textual theory, and seventeenth century poetry and drama. 3/24 4 p.m. John M. Coski, author of The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem and several other books on the Civil War and Virginia history, is historian and library director at The Museum of the Confederacy. 3/22 4 p.m.
Madeline Drexler, author of Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections, is a Boston-based journalist specializing in public health, medicine, and travel writing. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and many other national publications. 3/24 6 p.m. Johanna Drucker, Robertson Professor of Media Studies and Professor of English at UVa, is the author of six scholarly publications, including Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity. She is an internationally known book artist and experimental, visual poet. 3/22 2 p.m.
A. Roger Ekirch, author of At Day's Close, is a professor of history at Virginia Tech and an award-winning author. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in Roanoke, Virginia with his wife and three children. 3/24 4 p.m. Niles Eldredge, author of Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life, is the Curator of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History and Curator of the recent Darwin exhibit and author of the accompanying book. 3/23 6 p.m.
Mehr Farooqi researches the history and literary culture of Urdu and Hindi. She translates literature from Persian, Urdu, Hindi, and Avadhi, and is editing an anthology of Urdu literature in English translation. She has a Ph.D. in History from Allahabad University. 3/24 noon
Damon Lee Fowler, author of Dining at Monticello, is a culinary historian and food writer in Savannah, Georgia. Other titles include Damon Lee Fowler's New Southern Baking and Classical Southern Cooking (nominated for an IACP/Julia Child Award and the James Beard Award). 3/24 2 p.m.
Susan Garrett is the author of Quick-Eyed Love: Photography and Memory. Her previous books include Taking Care of Our Own: A Year in the Life of a Small Hospital and Miles to Go: Aging in Rural Virginia. She grew up in Philadelphia and now lives in Charlottesville. 3/22 4 p.m.
Laura Cockerille Giannini is author of The Kokopelli Journals: A Southwest (Mis)adventure of Discovery, Compassion, Empowerment... & Mischief. She saves a wild desert puppy from starvation, only to become wanted by Arizona law in this spiritual odyssey immediately post 9/11. 3/22 6 p.m.
E.J. Graff, a senior researcher at the Brandeis Institute for Investigative Journalism, most recently collaborated on former Massachusetts Lt. Governor Evelyn Murphy’s book, Getting Even: Why Women Still Don't Get Paid Like Men--And What To Do About It. 3/24 8 p.m.
David Bentley Hart, author The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsumani? and The Beauty of the Infinite, is an Eastern orthodox theologian who has taught at UVa, the University of St. Thomas, Duke Divinity School, and Loyola College, Baltimore. 3/24 7 p.m. Jeet Heer is the editor of Arguing Comics, author of Frank King’s Walt and Skeezix, and a regular contributor on comics to The Boston Globe. He will present on the influence of early comic artist Winsor McCay--particularly on Art Spiegelman. 3/25 10 a.m.
Peter R. Henriques is the author of Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington; The Death of George Washington: He Died as He Lived; and numerous articles on Washington. The father of four sons and grandfather of eight grandchildren, he lives with his wife Marlene in Gainesville, Virginia. 3/22 2 p.m. Hendrik Hertzberg, author of Politics: Observations & Arguments, is a senior editor of The New Yorker, where he frequently writes the opening "Comment" column and "Talk of the Town." A former editor of The New Republic, he served as chief speech writer for two years of the Carter administration. 3/25 4 p.m.
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. is the author of The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children. He wrote the bestseller Cultural Literacy, which Diane Rehm called "a compelling case for cultural reform." He is the founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation. 3/23 6 p.m.; 3/25 10 a.m. Michael Hoffmann, a South African national, is based in the Species Programme in the IUCN-World Conservation Union, where he coordinates initiatives on the global status of biodiversity. His principal expertise is in the field of mammalogy; he is co-editor of the forthcoming, multi-volume The Mammals of Africa. 3/23 4 p.m. Ron Hogan is the creator of the Beatrice.com literary website, and the author of The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane!, a pictorial tribute to 1970s Hollywood. As a freelance journalist, he writes frequently about literature and the publishing industry. 3/24 2 p.m.; 3/25 noon Peter Hook, a student of the languages and literatures of Asia, especially northern India and Pakistan, is interested in cross-cultural and inter-literary influences and experiments. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania and teaches Sanskrit at UVa. 3/24 noon Robert A. Hueckstedt teaches at UVa and has been translating from Hindi since 1984. His translations include The Hunted by Mudra Rakshasa, and two collections of short stories by Uday Prakash: Rage, Revelry, and Romance and Short Shorts Long Shots. 3/24 noon
David Kipen, author of The Schreiber Theory, has written about film and books for over 15 years, from 1998 to 2005 serving as literary critic for The San Francisco Chronicle. Last September he became Director of Literature at the National Endowment for the Arts. 3/24 2 p.m.; 3/25 noon Louise W. Knight is the author of Citizen: Jane Addams
and the Struggle for Democracy, about one of America's most respected social
reformers, the co-founder of Chicago's famous Hull House and the first female
American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. 3/25 noon Phyllis Koch-Sheras, Ph.D. is co-author with Peter Sheras of Couple Power Therapy and The Dream Sharing Sourcebook. She is a clinical and media psychologist and adjunct UVa Professor. She is a singer and artist and is active in local community theater. 3/22 2 p.m.
Dolores Kostelni, author of The Potluck Cookbook: Classic Recipes for Any Occasion and Cookies by the Dozen: 75 Recipes for Just a Dozen Cookies Each. She has been restaurant reviewer for The Roanoke Times since 1989 and hosts "The Happy Cook" radio show on WREL-AM. 3/24 6 p.m.
John Lamoreux specializes in the study of endangered and declining species. As a professional field ecologist with the World Wildlife Fund, he was primary scientist on the development in 2003 of the most comprehensive database of terrestrial vertebrates and their distribution within ecosystems. 3/23 4 p.m.
John Leland is the author of Aliens in the Backyard and Porcher's Creek: Lives Between the Tides. He is a professor of Renaissance poetry at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. 3/24 noon
Patty de Llosa, author of The Practice of Presence, has studied many spiritual teachings. She made her living as a reporter for Time, managing editor of American Fabrics & Fashions, associate editor of Leisure, and deputy chief of reporters of Fortune. 3/24 6 p.m.
Nathan Lott, author of 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Richmond, has lived and traveled widely in the United States, Europe, and the Near East. A writer and editor by trade, he resides in Richmond, Virginia with his wife Elizabeth. 3/23 8 p.m. Jeff Mann, author of Loving Mountains, Loving Men, is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the author of a collection of poetry, Bones Washed with Wine, and a memoir, Edge. 3/23 noon Suzanne Marrs is the author of Eudora Welty, A Biography and One Writer’s Imagination, The Fiction of Eudora Welty. Marrs, a recipient of the Phoenix Award for Distinguished Welty Scholarship, teaches English at Millsaps College and lives in Jackson, Mississippi. 3/24 noon
J.E. Matzer's Millionaire Boy: The Adventures of a Game Show Contestant is the story of his quest to win a spot on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" It is the first, and only, account of the experience from a contestant's point of view. 3/22 6 p.m. Mark D. McGarvie is the author of One Nation Under Law: America’s Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State. He holds a joint appointment in history and law at the University of Richmond. 3/25 10 a.m.
Charles McRaven, author of The Classic Hewn-Log House, has preserved historic buildings for more than fifty years. He teaches, lectures, consults and has written eight books on American Pioneer buildings and skills. He lives in Free Union, Virginia. 3/22 2 p.m.
Joan Mellen, author of A Farewell to Justice, is a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University. Author of two New York Times Notable Books of the Year and an L.A. Times Book Prize finalist, she lives in New Jersey. 3/24 2 p.m. Michael Mewshaw, author of If You Could See Me Now, is the bestselling author of ten novels and seven nonfiction books. He has won awards for fiction, travel writing, investigative reporting and sports journalism, with articles appearing in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Playboy, and other publications. 3/24 6 p.m.
Margaret Mohrmann, M.D. is the author of Attending Children: A Doctor’s Education, a book of stories from her career as as a pediatrician and in academe. Her other books include Pain Seeking Understanding and Medicine as Ministry. She lives in Charlottesville. 3/22 6 p.m. Vicky Moon is the author of several books on life in the Virginia village of Middleburg where she lives with her husband, sportswriter Leonard Shapiro, and her son. She has also written for The Washington Post, People, Town and Country, and House and Garden. 3/22 4 p.m.
Suzanne W. Morse, author of Smart Communities: How Citizens and Local Leaders Can Build a Brighter Future, is president of the Pew Partnership for Civic Change. Her work to build thriving communities has improved the lives of citizens across America. 3/22 2 p.m. Piotr Naskrecki is the Director of the Invertebrate Diversity Initiative at the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science at Conservation International. An accomplished photographer, his images appear in "Hotspots Revisited" and his newest book "The Smaller Majority." 3/23 4 p.m.
Kevin O'Keefe, author of The Average American, has held high-profile management positions in the professional sports industry, served as a media consultant for more than a dozen Fortune 500 companies, and worked as a magazine journalist. 3/23 4 p.m. Elaine Neil Orr, award-winning professor of literature and creative writing, recaptures her childhood as the daughter of medical missionaries in her memoir, Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life, and finds healing for body and soul. 3/22 4 p.m.
Ann Parson’s newest book, The Proteus Effect: Stem Cells and Their Promise for Medicine, was a finalist for an L.A. Times Book Prize. She is coauthor of Decoding Darkness: The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer's Disease and Menopause. 3/24 6 p.m.
Miriam Peskowitz is the author of The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars: Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother. She has appeared on NPR, print media, and television nationwide to discuss motherhood, politics, and work. 3/24 8 p.m.
Randy Porter, author of Mountain Bike! Virginia and The Best in Tent Camping: Virginia, co-founded Virginia’s first commercial bicycle touring company in the early 1980s. He enjoys hiking, camping, cycling, sea kayaking and a range of other outdoor activities. 3/23 8 p.m.
William Quandt, author of Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967, is the Edward R. Stettinue, Jr. Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at UVa. 3/23 2 p.m. Wesley Raabe is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department of the University of Virginia. He is working on an electronic edition of the National Era version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. 3/24 4 p.m.
Jon Robertson is the author of four non-fiction books, including The Sacred Bedroom and The Sacred Kitchen, which he wrote with his wife Robin. His latest book is Apocalypse Chow: How to Eat Well When the Power Goes Out. 3/24 6 p.m. Lindsay G. Robertson, author of Conquest by Law, is Maurice Merrill Professor of Law, History and Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Robertson has served as faculty director of the Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy since 1998. 3/22 6 p.m. Robin Robertson is the author of 14 cookbooks including Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker, Vegan Planet, and The Vegetarian Meat & Potatoes Cookbook. She lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia with her husband Jon, with whom she wrote Apocalypse Chow. 3/24 6 p.m.
George Rowand is the author of Diary of a Dream: My Journey in Throroughbred Racing which is about his experience breeding and racing championship horses. Trained as a lawyer, he now edits The Fauquier Times-Democrat and lives in Warrenton, Virginia with his wife and son. 3/22 4 p.m. Julian Rubinstein is the author of Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, which won Border's "Original Voices" Nonfiction Book of the Year award, and was a finalist for the Edgar and Anthony awards. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Details, and others. 3/24 4 p.m.; 3/25 noon
Devyani Saltzman is the author of Shooting Water: A Memoir of Second Chances, Family and Filmmaking. A photojournalist and freelance writer based in Toronto, Canada, she received a Young Professionals International Internship grant to work on a feature-length documentary in India. 3/22 4 p.m.; 3/24 2 p.m. Catherine Edwards Sanders, author of Wicca’s Charm, has experience in radio, television, and print journals such as The Weekly Standard, The Washington Times, Insight, World magazine, National Review, The Women's Quarterly, and Coastal Living. 3/21 7 p.m. (See Related Events) Carole Sargent, Ph.D. (GSAS 1994) is the founder and president of A Word in Time, an exclusive literary consulting agency in Washington, D.C. Author and professor of literature and writing at Georgetown, she has been written about in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and heard on "60 Minutes," CNN and National Public Radio. 3/25 4 p.m.
Peter L. Sheras, Ph.D., is a clinical and media psychologist and UVa Professor. He is author of seven books on relationships and raising teenagers and winner of the 2005 parenting media award for I Can’t Believe You Went Through My Stuff. 3/22 2 p.m. Barbara Clark Smith is a curator at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, specializing in Revolutionary America. She is writing The Freedoms We Lost, exploring 18th-century forms of consent and participation outside the confines of the vote. 3/25 10 a.m. Robert L. and Fran W. Smith are authors of Time Out: A Fulbright Year of Travel, Adventure, Fun and Discovery in Great Britain and Europe. Robert has been an administrator in juvenile and criminal justice. Fran worked with individuals with learning and developmental disabilities. In their extensive travels, Fran has been the photographer and Robert the chronicler of their experiences. 3/22 4 p.m. Deborah Meranski Sonnenstrahl is professor emeritus of Art History and Museum Studies at Gallaudet University, where she taught for 32 years. Deaf Artists in America is the result of decades of scholarship in the work of deaf artists. 3/25 noon
Carolyn Spiro, co-author of Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey through Schizophrenia, graduated from Harvard Medical School and trained in psychiatry at Harvard's Massachusetts Mental Health Center. She practices general psychiatry with specialization in obsessive-compulsive disorders and neuro-psychiatric tick-borne diseases. 3/22 noon; 3/23 10 a.m. Pamela Spiro Wagner, co-author of Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey through Schizophrenia, is a frequently publishedauthor who has won the Connecticut Mental Health Media Award, the BBC International Poetry Award, and the Tunxis Poetry Review Prize twice. 3/22 noon; 3/23 10 a.m. Ellen Handler Spitz, author of The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood and Inside Picture Books, is a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She has written and lectured extensively on children's aesthetic and psychological developments. 3/25 10 a.m. Warren St. John, author of Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer, was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He is currently a reporter for The New York Times. He has also written extensively for The New Yorker, the New York Observer, and Wired. 3/23 2 p.m. Patricia Sullivan, author of Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Right Years, teaches history at the University of South Carolina. She also wrote Days of Hope and is writing a history of the NAACP. 3/23 2 p.m.
Barbara Tedlock, Ph.D., is the granddaughter of an Ojibwe midwife and herbalist. Trained and initiated as a shaman by the K'iche' Maya of highland Guatemala, she is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Buffalo and author of The Woman in the Shaman’s Body. 3/22 7 p.m.
Abigail Trafford is a columnist and former health editor at The Washington Post. In addition to My Time: Making the Most of the Bonus Decades After Fifty, she is bestselling author of Crazy Time: Surviving Divorce and Building a New Life. 3/24 4 p.m. Edith Turner, author of Among the Healers: Stories of Ritual and Spiritual Healing Around the World and Experiencing Ritual, is an anthropologist at UVa engaged in the study of ritual, religion, and consciousness. Her books reveal the deep experiences of healers as they work in the spiritual dimension. 3/22 7 p.m. Milton Viorst--author of Storm from the East: The Struggle Between the Arab World and the Christian West; What Shall I Do WithThis People?; and In the Shadow of the Prophet--has covered the Middle East for thirty years for The New Yorker and other publications. 3/23 2 p.m. Bibi Wein's work has appeared in national magazines and literary journals, including Mademoiselle, OMNI, Kalliope, Other Voices, and American Letters & Commentary. She lives in the Adirondacks and Manhattan. The Way Home, winner of the Tupelo Press Literary Fiction/Non-Fiction Prize, is her first book of creative nonfiction. 3/24 noon Lawrence Weschler, author of Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, was for over twenty years a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award (1988, 1992) and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award (1998).3/25 8 p.m.; 3/26 1:30 p.m. Ania Wieckowski is in her first year of the M.A. program in English Literature at UVa. She is interested in Victorian novels and books as physical objects. 3/24 4 p.m.
Jules Witcover, autobiographer of The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch: Half a Century Pounding the Political Beat, has covered American politics for over half a century. He spent 52 of those 56 years in Washington, D.C. or on various campaign trails. 3/24 11 a.m.
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Patricia
Aburdene, author of Megatrends 2010 and co-author of four Megatrends
books, has addressed business audiences throughout the world. Her 25-year career
began at Forbes magazine. She resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts and
Telluride, Colorado. 3/22 7:30 a.m., 7 p.m.; 3/23 4 p.m.
Leonard
M. Adkins is author of 50 Hikes in Northern Virginia; Maryland: An
Explorer's Guide; and many other books on hiking and wildflowers. He has
won the National Outdoor Book Award, and has walked the length of the Appalachian
Trail four times. He lives in Fincastle, Virginia. 3/21 7p.m.; 3/22 8 p.m.
Joel
Agee, author of In the House of My Fear and Twelve Years,
is the translator of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Gottfried Benn, Elias Canetti,
and several others. His translation of Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist
won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 1999. 3/24 noon
Sam
Apple's first book is Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for
Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd. A contributing book
editor at Nerve.com, he has also written for The New York Times, Forward,
The Jerusalem Report, and Salon.com. 3/24 2 p.m.
Ronald
Bailey, author of Liberation Biology, is the award winning science
correspondent for Reason magazine. Author or editor of 4 other books,
his work has appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004,
The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Smithsonian,
and many other publications. 3/24 6 p.m. 
Chris
Bechtold is the author of A Current Adventure - In the Wake of Lewis
and Clark. He manages an organic ranch on the Rocky Mountain Front of Montana.
He has worked as a wilderness guide, bear biologist, and cowboy. 3/23 6 p.m.
Pamela
D. Blair, Ph.D., is author of The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women
at Midlife and Beyond and co-author of the award-winning grief book,
I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye. She is a psychotherapist, spiritual counselor,
and life coach practicing in Westchester County, New York. 3/23 6 p.m.
Marianne
Brandon, Ph.D., is co-author of Reclaiming Desire: Four Keys for
Finding Your Lost Libido. Brandon is a clinical psychologist and sex therapist
in Annapolis, Maryland and President of Wellminds Wellbodies, a center for integrative
and holistic psychological care. Pictured with co-author Andrew Goldstein,
M.D. 3/25 2 p.m.
Patricia
Bryan co-authored (with Thomas Wolf) Midnight Asssassin: A Murder
in America's Heartland, a true story of a century-old Iowa murder case. She
has been a law professor at the University of North Carolina since 1982. 3/24
2 p.m.
Derek
Catsam, author of Bleeding Red: A Red Sox Fan's Diary of the 2004
Season, is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas of
the Permian Basin. He also writes about race and politics in the U.S. and Africa.
3/23 2 p.m.
Marlene
A. Condon, author of The Nature-Friendly Garden: Creating A Backyard
Haven for Plants, Wildlife, and People is a nature writer, photographer,
and speaker. She is a Field Editor for Birds & Blooms magazine and
is a regular speaker in Shenandoah National Park. 
Digby
Diehl is the co-author of The Million Dollar Mermaid, the as-told-to
autobiography of Esther Williams. Author of more than three dozen books, he is
a media critic and journalist, living in Los Angeles, California, with his wife,
Kay. 3/24 10 a.m., 2 p.m.; 3/25 2 p.m.
Michael
Downing is the author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight
Saving Time as well as Shoes Outside the Door and Breakfast
with Scot. He teaches creative writing at Tufts University and lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. 3/24 4 p.m.
Barbara
Ehrenreich, author of Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the
American Dream, is the author of 13 books, including New York Times
bestseller Nickel and Dimed. She is a frequent contributor to Harper's
and The Nation. 3/24 8 p.m.
Ruth
Andrew Ellenson's The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt won
the National Jewish Book Award 2005. A journalist, she writes for The Los
Angeles Times, People Magazine, and other publications. She is currently
at work on a novel. 3/23 8 p.m.
Melvin
Patrick Ely wrote Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment
in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War, which won the 2005
Bancroft Prize and many other awards. He teaches history at the College of William
and Mary. 3/22 6 p.m.
John
Falk, author of Hello to All That: A Memoir of War, Zoloft and Peace,
is a journalist who has worked for magazines such as Esquire, Vanity Fair,
Radar, and Details. He lives in New York City. 3/23 10 a.m.
Stephen
J. Farnsworth is author of The Mediated Presidency: Television News
and Presidential Governance, as well as Political Support in a Frustrated
America and co-author of The Nightly News Nightmare. A former newspaperman,
he teaches at the University of Mary Washington. 3/25 2 p.m.
Libby
Miller Fitzgerald, author of Bill Miller: Do You Know Me? A Daughter
Remembers, is a journalist who has worked for Time, Inc. in New York, the
ABC-TV affiliate in Lynchburg, and the NPR affiliate in Roanoke. She lives in
Lynchburg, Virginia. 3/23 2 p.m.
Tim
Flannery, author of The Weather Makers, is director of the South
Australian Museum and professor at the University of Adelaide. A leading Australian
scientist and conservationist, he also wrote The Eternal Frontier and
The Future Eaters. 3/25 noon
John
Hope Franklin, author of Mirror to America: The Autobiography of
John Hope Franklin, is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke
University. He has received dozens of major awards, including the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, for his lifelong commitment to civil rights. 3/22 8 p.m.
Samuel
G. Freedman, author, journalist, and educator, has written six books,
including Who She Was: My Search For My Mother's Life and Letters
To A Young Journalist. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National
Book Award, he has won the National Jewish Book Award. 3/23 8 p.m.
Kyra
D. Gaunt, author of The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes
from Double Dutch to Hip-Hop, is associate professor of ethnomusicology at
New York University. A jazz vocalist and songwriter, she lectures nationally and
internationally on African American music. 3/25 4 p.m. 
Amy
Goodman, host and executive producer of "Democracy Now!"—a
national, independent, award-winning news program—is co-author (with brother
David Goodman) of The New York Times bestseller, The Exception to
the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love
Them. 3/24 7 p.m.
Lynn
Hamilton is the author of the nonfiction book, Guide to Leadership
Communication. She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University
of Virginia. Her short stories have appeared in literary journals including Ontario
Review, Iris, and A Room of One's Own. 3/22 4 p.m.
Kristin
Henderson's most recent book is While They're at War: The True Story
of American Families on the Homefront. She writes about military issues,
including stories for The Washington Post magazine, and lives in Washington,
D.C., and Beaufort, South Carolina. 3/24 4 p.m.
Robert
Hieronimus, Ph.D. is the author of several books, including Founding
Fathers, Secret Societies: Freemasons, Illuminati, Rosicrucians and the Decoding
of the Great Seal. A historian, visual artist, and radio host, his weekly
program, "21st Century Radio," broadcasts New Paradigm topics across
the United States. 3/22 6 p.m.
Margo
Jefferson’s first book is On Michael Jackson. She is a
Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic for The New York Times. Her reviews
and essays have also appeared in such publications as The Nation, The Village
Voice, and Harper's. 3/24 10 a.m.; 3/25 2 p.m.
Bruce
Juell, author of The Retirement Activities Guide, has been a
U.S. Navy jet pilot, management consultant, turnaround specialist, investment
banker, and corporate CEO. His interest in "retirement productivity"
led him to write this book. 3/23 6 p.m.
Elizabeth
Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and
Climate Change, has been a writer for The New York Times and The
New Yorker. She, her husband, and three sons live in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
3/25 noon
Nick
Kotz is the author of Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin
Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America. 3/24 10 a.m.
Marc
Leepson, the author of Flag: An American Biography, Saving Monticello,
and three other books, lives and works in Middleburg, Virginia. Flag
is a history of the Stars and Stripes from its beginnings to today. 3/22 4 p.m.
Peter
J. Levinson is the author of Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big
Way-A Biography. His previous books include Trumpet Blues: The Life of
Harry James and September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle.
He is currently at work on a biography of Fred Astaire. 3/24 10 a.m.
Angeline
Stoll Lillard, author of Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius,
is a UVa associate professor of psychology. She was awarded the Developmental
Psychology Division of the American Pyschological Association's Outstanding Dissertation
Award (1992) and its Boyd McCandless Award for Distinguished Early Career Contribution
(1999). 3/23 6 p.m.
Linda
Logan, author of A Summer Without Children: An Oral History of Wythe
County, Virginia's 1950 Polio Epidemic, is Coordinator of Heritage Education
for Wytheville's Museums in Southwest Virginia. 3/23 2 p.m.
Megan
Marshall, author of The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited
American Romanticism, has written on women's history, biography, and New
England history for The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Slate,
The New Republic, and other publications 3/25 noon
Katherine
McNamara is the author of Narrow Road to the Deep North, A Journey
into the Interior of Alaska, and edits and publishes the international quarterly
Archipelago.org. 3/24 noon; 3/25 10 a.m.
Edward
McPherson’s first book is Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat
Hat. He has contributed to such publications as The New York Times Magazine,
The New York Observer, and Talk. He lives in New York, where he
is working on a new book. 3/22 7 p.m.; 3/24 10 a.m.
Barbara
Drummond Mead is the publisher of Reading Group Choices: Selections
for Lively Book Discussions and a consultant for independent book stores.
Previously, she worked in book retailing and publishing. 3/24 2 p.m.
Jalieh
Juliet Milani, co-author of Flexing Your Soul, completed her
training in Core Energetics with founder Dr. John Pierrakos. She is a body therapist
with a practice in Durham, North Carolina. (See Related Events 3/24 6
p.m.; 3/25 2 p.m.)
Jim
Minick, author of Finding a Clear Path, lives, writes and farms
in southwest Virginia, while also teaching at Radford University. His poems and
essays have appeared in many books and periodicals including Orion, Shenandoah,
and Appalachian Journal. 3/24 noon
Douglas
E. Morris is the author of It's a Sprawl World After All: The Human
Costs of Unplanned Growth-And Visions for a Better Future. The book is based
on his 14 years as an international entrepreneur, magazine columnist, and author.
3/22 2 p.m.
Victor
S. Navasky is the author of A Matter of Opinion and Naming
Names, which won the National Book Award, and coauthor of The Experts
Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation. Publisher
emeritus of The Nation, he chairs The Columbia Journalism Review.
3/25 2 p.m.
Fintan
O'Toole is the author of White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention
of America. Also the author of A Traitor's Kiss and The Ex-Isle
of Erin, he is a columnist and drama critic with The Irish Times
and often writes for The New York Review of Books. 3/22 6 p.m.
James
E. Person, Jr. is author of Earl Hamner: From Walton's Mountain to
Tomorrow, a biography of the Virginia novelist/screenwriter who created "The
Waltons", "Spencer's Mountain", and many other works. Person is
a freelance writer and an editorial manager at a major publishing firm. 3/23 2
p.m.
Abigail
Pogrebin, author of Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being
Jewish, has been a producer for Charlie Rose, Bill Moyers, and "60 Minutes,"
for Mike Wallace and Ed Bradley. She was a senior correspondent for Brill's
Content and a contributing writer for Talk magazine. 3/23 8 p.m.
Deborah
M. Prum is the author of Rats, Bulls and Flying Machines, A History
of the Renaissance and Reformation. She has written for many publications
including the Virginia Quarterly Review, Ladies' Home Journal and The
Writer. 3/22 4 p.m.
Rainbow
Eagle is an Okla-Choctaw American Indian, a storyteller, and a teacher.
He is author of two books: A Walk in the Woods and The Universal
Peace Shield of Truths. He is a Wisdom Keeper, honored with the responsibility
of an Ancient Native American Peace Shield. 3/22 7 p.m.
Linda
Robinson was the winner of the 2004 Ford Journalism Prize for Reporting
on National Defense and began Masters of Chaos during a Nieman Fellowship
in 2000-01. She has reported on special operations forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan,
and is a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report. 3/24 4 p.m.
Marion
Elizabeth Rodgers is the author of Mencken: The American Iconoclast
, called "the best Mencken biography to date." She is the editor of
Mencken & Sara: A Life in Letters and The Impossible H. L. Mencken,
a popular collection of his journalism. She lives in Washington, D.C. 3/24 noon
Naomi
Harris Rosenblatt, author of After The Apple: Women in the Bible-Timeless
Stories of Lust, Love and Longing, and Wrestling With Angels, is a participant
in Bill Moyers’ "Genesis: A Living Conversation." A teacher, speaker,
and psychotherapist, she appears nationally on radio and TV. 3/25 4 p.m.
Natania
Rosenfeld, author of Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf,
has written personal essays appearing or forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, Ninth
Letter, Another Chicago Magazine, and Post Road. Her poetry appears
in The American Poetry Review, Seneca Review, Nimrod, and Prairie
Schooner. She is an Associate Professor of English at Knox College. 3/24
noon
William
F. Ruddiman, author of Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum, is an
emeritus professor at UVa. An expert on Earth's climatic history, he is author
of over 100 published papers and a college-level textbook, Earth's Climate.
3/25 noon
Seymour
I. Schwartz, Ph.D, is the author of America’s Baptism
as well as books on surgery, geography, mapping, and the French and Indian War.
He lives in Pittsford, New York. 3/24 2 p.m.
Brenda
Serotte is the author of The Fortune Teller's Kiss, a memoir
about her life as a Sephardic Jew in an Ashkenazi Bronx neighborhood where she
battled childhood polio. She is an author, poet and teacher. 3/22 4 p.m.; 3/23
2 p.m.
Art
Spiegelman is the author of numerous comics and graphic novels, including
the seminal Maus, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. From
1993 to 2003, he was a staff artist and writer for The New Yorker. His
most recent book is In the Shadow of No Towers. 3/25 8 p.m.; 3/26 1:30
p.m.
James
L. Swanson, author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
and co-author of Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution, was
born on Lincoln's birthday. A Washington, D.C. resident, he serves on the advisory
committee of the national Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. 3/24 2 p.m.
William
Thomas, M.D., geriatrician of international reputation, is known for
his innovative approaches to long term care. His book, What Are Old People
For? introduces "intentional communities" for elders no longer
able to live alone. 3/22 2 p.m.
Peter
Winants, author of The Sporting Art of Franklin B. Voss, is
a photographer, former editor of The Chronicle of the Horse, and former
director of the National Sporting Library. Winants is also an avid equestrian
in Rectortown, Virginia. 3/22 4 p.m.
Franz
Wisner is a travel addict and author of Honeymoon with My Brother,
a best-selling memoir about being left at the altar, then taking a two-year honeymoon
around the world with his younger brother. He once worked for the government.
3/24 2 p.m.
Adrian
Wooldridge is the Washington Bureau Chief for The Economist
and author of its Lexington column. He covers politics, social policy, and social
and political events. His most recent book is The Right Nation, a co-authored
study of conservatism in America. 3/25 4 p.m.
David
Wolman is the author of A Left-Hand Turn Around the World: Chasing
the Mystery and Meaning of All Things Southpaw. A science journalist by profession
and a recent Fulbright journalism fellow, his work has appeared in such publications
as Discover, Newsweek, New Scientist, Outside, and The San Jose Mercury
News. 3/23 4 p.m.; 3/24 2 p.m.
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