More Exciting Authors Sign On For VABook!
November 11, 2009
Charlottesville, VA: The 16th Annual Virginia Festival of the Book will be packed with talent once again March 17-21, 2010. Headliners will include 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge), Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Rick Bragg (The Most They Ever Had; All Over But the Shoutin'), novelist Lee Smith (Mrs. Darcy Meets the Blue-Eyed Stranger) and poet Nikki Giovanni (Bicycles: Love Poems); Alice Randall (Rebel Yell and The Wind Done Gone); Sonny Brewer, The Widow and the Tree; The Poet of Tolstoy Park. Among the Crime and mystery writers are David Liss, Nancy Martin, Rhys Bowen, Julia Spencer-Fleming and John Hart.
Nonfiction standouts include Matthew Crawford (Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work), Jackie Gingrich Cushman (The Five Principles for a Successful Life), E. Ethelbert Miller (The Fifth Inning), Warren St. John (Outcasts United), and James Gordon (Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression). Memoirists include Kaylie Jones (Lies My Mother Never Told Me), Lucinda Franks (My Father’s Secret War), Carolyn Jourdan (Heart in the Right Place).
Other poets include Kim Addonizio (Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within), Kevin Young (Dear Darkness: Poems, For the Confederate Dead), John Casteen IV (Free Union) and Major Jackson (Hoops: Poems).
Non-fiction writers include: Patricia Sullivan, Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, David Taylor, Soul of a People: The WPA Uncovers Depression America, Jennifer Burns (Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right), Guian A. McKee (The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia.)
Tickets are still available for the Festival luncheon with Michael Malone, the Crime Wave luncheon with Julia Spencer-Fleming and the Business Breakfast with Michael Gelb. For more information on these events, the participants and programs of the Festival, please visit the website at vabook.org.
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, www.virginiafoundation.org, is a non-profit educational organization, created in 1974 to VFH is a catalyst for the cultural, civic, artistic, and educational vitality of the Commonwealth. Our purpose is to understand the past and confront issues in the present, in order to help shape a more promising future. We seek to discover and share untold stories, encourage lifelong learning, and promote civil discourse.
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