Featured Speakers at the 15th Virginia Festival of the Book

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Authors Reception
with Katherine Neville
and Tim & Daphne Reid
at UVa Harrison Institute /
Small Special Collections Library

Crime Wave Luncheon
with Brad Meltzer
- Sold Out -

Business Breakfast
with Dan Ariely
- Sold Out -

Festival Luncheon
with Adriani Trigiani
- Sold Out -

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Authors Reception
tim & daphne reid, katherine neville

UVa Harrison Institute, Saturday, March 21
6:00 p.m.. Tickets: $35

A wine and hors d'oeuvres reception for Festival authors and the public, hosted by Virginia writers Katherine Neville (The Fire) and Daphne and Tim Reid (Tim and Tom: An American Comedy in Black and White). Buy Now!

Adriani Trigiani

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Festival Luncheon: Thursday, March 19
11:45 a.m. Omni Hotel Tickets: $50
Media Sponsor: WVPT Virginia's Public Television

Adriani Trigiani, loved for her lively personal style and her novels featuring feisty women, will be the luncheon speaker at the Fifteenth Annual Virginia Festival of the Book. Big Stone Gap, her hometown, is the setting for four of her novels, Big Stone Gap, Big Cherry Holler, Milk Glass Moon and Return to Big Stone Gap. Other novels include Lucia, Lucia, The Queen of the Big Time and Rococo. She is known for stories which explore Italian-American families coming of age in America.

Her newest novel will be published just in time for the Festival--Very Valentine. Ms. Trigiani is also scheduled to have her first young adult novel, The Viola Chesterton Chronicles, published in 2009. Ms. Trigiani is also a playwright, TV writer and documentary filmmaker. She lives in New York, with her husband and daughter.

Dan Ariely

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Festival Business Breakfast: Wednesday, March 18
7:30 a.m. Omni Hotel Tickets: $30
Media Sponsor: WHTJ Charlottesville PBS

Dan Ariely, author of the New York Times best-selling Predictably Irrational, is a student of behavioral economics, and the featured speaker at the Festival Business Breakfast, on Wednesday, March 18. He has just become the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University, and has also taught at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. He is a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight.

His backstory is compelling—as an Israeli soldier, he was badly burned and spent months in the hospital. During this time he began to consider research which would look at how emotions, social norms and other factors affect behavior in ways that are not always rational. His ideas can have great impact on marketing, educational and social policy. Buy Now!

Brad Meltzer

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Crime Wave Luncheon: Saturday, March 21
12 noon, Omni Hotel Tickets: $50
Media Sponsor: WVPT Virginia's Public Television

Brad Meltzer's most recent book is The Book of Lies, which centers both on the Biblical murder of Abel by Cain, and the unsolved murder of Superman Creator Jerry Siegel’s father. Meltzer is the author of six other thrillers. He has also authored four comic books, Last Will and Testament, Justice League, Identity Crisis, and Green Arrow.

Meltzer grew up in Brooklyn and Miami and graduated from the University of Michigan and Columbia Law School.. Other books have included The First Counsel, The Millionaires, The Zero Game, Dead Even, and the Tenth Justice. He currently lives with his wife and children in Florida. Buy Now!

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