Enjoy a visit with Helen Simonson, author of the bestselling debut novel, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, about a retired army officer and a shop owner from Pakistan in a small English village. Light refreshment provided. Wine and soft drinks available for purchase.

Sponsored by Keswick Hall at Monticello.

Featuring:
Martin Chapman (moderator), Helen Simonson

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Kathryn Stockett, author of the bestseller The Help, discusses her book and the impact it has had on the book world and her own life. This is Ms. Stockett's only Festival event. General seating.

Hosted by John and Renee Grisham.

Sponsored by Dominion Resources with additional funding from SunTrust Bank.

IMPORTANT - This is a ticketed event. You must purchase tickets in order to attend.

Featuring:
Kathryn Stockett

Virginia mystery authors Meredith Cole (Dead in the Water), Andy Straka (A Witness Above), and Howard Owen (The Reckoning), discuss how The Maltese Falcon influenced their work.

Hosted by The Bridge PAI and the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library.

Featuring:
Meredith Cole, Leeyanne Moore (moderator), Howard Owen, Andy Straka

Copies of Super should be available Friday afternoon at the UVA bookstore for 20% off.

Author of Super and 19 other novels, 2 memoirs, and 3 plays, Lehrer is the executive editor and anchor of the PBS NewsHour. Pre-luncheon music by the Senior Center's Flashbacks Swing Band.

Sponsored by Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport and U.S. Trust with Media Sponsor: WVPT Your Choice for PBS and More.

IMPORTANT - This is a ticketed event. You must purchase tickets in order to attend.

Featuring:
The Flashbacks, Jim Lehrer

Caroline Leavitt (Pictures of You), Elizabeth McColl (Opening Arteries), Sarah Collins Honenberger (Catcher, Caught), and Leora Skolkin-Smith (The Fragile Mistress) discuss how illness can create a structure for fiction.

Featuring:
Sarah Collins Honenberger, Caroline Leavitt, Elizabeth McColl, Leora Skolkin-Smith, Rachel Unkefer (moderator)

Novels of complicated lives, with Susan Gregg Gilmore (The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove), Alden Bigelow (Norton's Lament), and Michele Young-Stone (The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors).

Featuring:
Alden Bigelow, Susan Gregg Gilmore, Deborah Prum (moderator), Michele Young-Stone

Novelists Michael Knight (The Typist), Jessica Francis Kane (The Report), and Tatjana Soli (The Lotus Eaters) have written of characters in the midst and aftermath of war.

Featuring:
Jessica Francis Kane, Michael Knight, Tatjana Soli, Brendan Wolfe (moderator)

William Cobb (The Last Queen of the Gypsies), Vicki Lane (The Day of Small Things), and Brian Ray (Through the Pale Door).

Featuring:
William Cobb, Vicki Lane, Nancy O'Brien (moderator), Brian Ray

Mark Childress (Georgia Bottoms), Myla Goldberg (The False Friend), Alan Cheuse (Song of Slaves in the Desert), and Jaimy Gordon (Lord of Misrule) share dirty secrets and good clean fun. Parking is free at Culbreth Road Parking Garage.

Featuring:
Alan Cheuse, Mark Childress, Myla Goldberg, Jaimy Gordon, Robert Vaughan (moderator)

Martha McPhee (Dear Money), John McNally (After the Workshop), and Carolyn Parkhurst (The Nobodies Album) talk about the risks and rewards of published novels in which the main character is a novelist.

Hosted by WriterHouse.

Featuring:
John McNally, Martha McPhee, Carolyn Parkhurst, Rachel Unkefer (moderator)

Charlie Palumbo, a veteran of the United States Navy, will read from The Face of a Memory, a linked series of short stories based on characters she met in the Navy. Eighty percent of sales will go to "Give An Hour" non-profit providing free mental health services to veterans.

Featuring:
Charlie Palumbo

Pearl Abraham (American Taliban), Carla Buckley (The Things That Kept Us Here), and Sheri Holman (Witches on the Road Tonight).

Featuring:
Pearl Abraham, Carla Buckley, Sheri Holman, Virginia Pye (moderator)

Three National Book Award winners, John Casey (Compass Rose and Spartina), Jaimy Gordon (Lord of Misrule) and Kathryn Erskine (Mockingbird) discuss their work and life after winning major literary prizes.

Featuring:
John Casey, Kathryn Erskine, Jaimy Gordon, Henry Wiencek (moderator)

Fiction and poetry readings by recent graduates of the UVa MFA Program in Creative Writing, including Jenny Hollowell (Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe), Emma Rathbone (The Patterns of Paper Monsters), Hannah Pittard (The Fates Will Find Their Way), and Paul Legault (The Madeleine Poems).

Hosted by UVa MFA Porgram in Creative Writing.

Featuring:
Jenny Hollowell, Paul Legault, Jeb Livingood (moderator), Hannah Pittard, Emma Rathbone

Fiction authors Myla Goldberg (Bee Season, The False Friend), William Cobb (The Last Queen of the Gypsies), Carolyn Parkhurst (The Nobodies Album), and Tatjana Soli (The Lotus Eaters). Moderated by Barbara Drummond Mead.

Featuring:
William Cobb, Myla Goldberg, Barbara Drummond Mead (moderator), Carolyn Parkhurst, Tatjana Soli

Meet the Argentinean novelist Mempo Giardinelli and the translator Gustavo Pellon for a reading of An Impossible Balance and discussion of Giardinelli's work. In Spanish and English.

Featuring:
Mempo Giardinelli, Fernando Operé (moderator), Gustavo Pellon

Kerry Reichs (Leaving Unknown), Richard Morais (The Hundred Foot Journey), and Ruth Pennebaker (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough).

Featuring:
Richard C. Morais, Ruth Pennebaker, Kerry Reichs, Mariflo Stephens (moderator)

Michael Parker (The Watery Part of the World), Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Picking Bones from Ash), and Ellen Meeropol (House Arrest).

Featuring:
Ellen Meeropol, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, Michael Parker, Mariflo Stephens (moderator)

With John Wright (Continuum), Jagi Lamplighter (Prospero in Hell), Maria Lima (Blood Heat: Blood Lines, Book 4), and Steve White and Chuck Gannon (Extremis).

Featuring:
Charles E. Gannon, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Maria Lima, Chris Oakley (moderator), Steve White, John C. Wright

Lori Tharps (Substitute Me), Hermine Pinson (Shaping Memories: Reflections of African-American Women), Rachel Bagby (Divine Daughters: Liberating the Power and Passion of Women's Voices) and Barbara Talley (Miner Miracles).

Featuring:
Rachel Bagby, Hermine Pinson, Paula Marie Seniors (moderator), Barbara S. Talley, Lori L. Tharps

Mary Akers (Women Up On Blocks), Edward Falco (Burning Man: Stories), Andrew Wingfield (Right of Way), and Ariel Sabar (Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York).

Featuring:
Mary Akers, Edward Falco, Ariel Sabar, Mitzi Ware (moderator), Andrew Wingfield

Micah Nathan (Losing Graceland), Phoebe Potts (Good Eggs), Ariel Sabar (Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York), and screenwriter Lee Goldberg (The Monk series).

Featuring:
Lee Goldberg, Micah Nathan, Phoebe Potts, Ariel Sabar, Bella Stander (moderator)

Brenda Rickman Vantrease (The Heretic's Wife), Lenore Hart (The Raven's Bride), Paul Robertson (Dark in the City of Light), and George Minkoff (The Leaves of Fate) discuss their novels and the research that goes into creating them.

Featuring:
Clifford Garstang (moderator), Lenore Hart, George Robert Minkoff, Paul Robertson, Brenda Rickman Vantrease

Nicole Green (Love Out of Order), Dora Machado (the Stonewiser series), Deanna Raybourn (Dark Road to Darjeeling), Bethany Pierce (Amy Inspired) and Jenny Gardiner (Slim to None), look at the fine lines of romance found in suspense, historical, and fantasy novels.

Featuring:
Jenny Gardiner (moderator), Nicole Green, Dora Machado, Bethany Pierce, Deanna Raybourn

Celebrate Irish and Irish-American culture and literature With Colm Toibin (Brooklyn, The Empty Family: Stories), Kathleen Hill (Who Occupies This House), Anne Enright (Yesterday's Weather: Stories), and Kevin Holohan (The Brothers' Lot).

Sponsored by Culture Ireland.

IMPORTANT - This is a ticketed event. You must purchase tickets in order to attend.

Featuring:
Anne Enright, Kathleen Hill, Kevin Holohan, Colm Tóibín