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Copyright © 1997, Virginia Festival of the Book, BITS
(Please refer to the Program of Events for program details and location information.)
Sam Abell is
a photographer for National Geographic.
(Su 2:30 p.m. Central)
Jennifer Ackerman is a writer specializing in science and natural
history. Her first work, Notes from the Shore (Viking Penguin,
1995), is an exploration of the natural life of the Atlantic coast. She
is working on a new book, The Longest Thread about evolutionary
biology, to be published by Viking Penguin. Ackerman's essays and articles
have appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic, Nature Conservancy,
and other publications.
(Sa 11:30 a.m. Village; Su 1 p.m. Central)
Karl Ackerman has held a variety of jobs in the publishing business,
including bookseller, sales representative, book reviewer, and editor. His
first novel, The Patron Saint of Unmarried Women, was selected
as a notable book of the year by the New York Times.
(Sa 1 p.m. & 2:30 p.m. City Council)
Sandra Adell is an associate professor of literature in the Department
of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A native
of Detroit, Mich., Adell has lived in Madison since 1983. Her publications
include Double- Consciousness/Double Bind: Theoretical Issues in Twentieth
Century Black Literature and the African American Culture volume
of the Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture. She is currently
working on a new book titled The Contested Site of Blackness. (Th
4 p.m. McGuffey)
John Alton, a writer and practitioner of Asian martial arts for over
twenty-five years, heads The Three Emperors, a school of Chinese health
and physical culture, in Charlottesville. His first book, Living Qigong,
is a narrative of his two-year apprenticeship with a famous Chinese martial
artist and Qigong master, and was released in 1996. He has also completed
a novel, set in the American southeastern frontier of the early nineteenth
century. (Th 2:30 p.m. Central)
Don Anglin is a technical writer and author, coauthor, or editor
of more than a hundred books. Since 1973, he has been self- employed as
a technical writer, automotive author , and consulting editor for McGraw-Hill.
Anglin is the coauthor of a million-seller textbook and two leading home-study
courses. He also has written a variety of encyclopedia and magazine articles,
and research reports. Anglin is past chairman of the Virginia section of
the Society of Automotive Engineers and a member of the Board of Trustees
of the National Automotive History Collection. (Sa 4 p.m. Central)
Aransas the Storyteller has entertained audiences in fifteen states,
introducing himself as "poet, writer, teacher, and clown; master of
laughter, the scream, and the frown; travelling troubadour, boulevard bad. I'm a taleteller, and quite a card." Aransas - whose surname, Vacilando,
means "joyful travelling" in Spanish - is an experienced classroom
teacher, "from kindergarten to business and community college."
(Th 7 p.m. Cale; Sa 11 a.m. Greene County)
P.M.H. Atwater is internationally acclaimed for her ground- breaking
research into near-death states and spiritual transformations. She is the
author of Coming Back to Life, Beyond the Light, and Goddess Runes,
and is second vice president of the International Association For Near-Death
Studies. (Su 2 p.m. New Dominion)
Louis Auchincloss is the author of fifty-one works of fiction and
nonfiction. His novels include The Rector of Justin, The House of Five
Talents, and Portrait in Brownstone; among his many volumes of
stories are The Romantic Egoists, Skinny Island, and most recently,
Tales of Yesteryear and The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss.
A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he lives in New York
City. (Sa 4 p.m. Alderman)
Edward Ayers has taught the history and culture of the American South
at the University of Virginia since 1980. His The Promise of the New
South won the Owsley Prize for best book on history of the South and
was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
He is the coeditor of the Oxford Book of the American South(Oxford
University Press, 1997). (Sa 12 p.m. UVa Bookstore)
Beverly Bagan (F 10 a.m. New Dominion)
John Baker presently serves as the elected at-large member of the
Albemarle County School Board. During twenty-four years of active military
service, he earned the Legion of Merit, the Joint Service Commendation Medal,
four Army Commendation medals, and the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with silver
star. (F 10:30 a.m. & 8 p.m. WAHS).
Joseph Barbato writes frequently on literary publishing for Publishers
Weekly, where he is a contributing editor. He has written for publications
from the New York Times to the Washington Post Book World,
and is coeditor of several literary anthologies, including Heart of the
Land (Pantheon), Patchwork of Dreams (Spirit), and a forthcoming
story collection from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. (Sa 12 p.m. Omni)
Edwin Barber has been in publishing for over thirty years and has
been at W. W. Norton in New York since 1974, where he has served as director
of the College Department and director of the Trade Department. He now runs
a nonfiction trade list which encompasses books on history, biography, science,
international relations, and the environment. Some of the authors he has
worked with are Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Feynman, Christopher Lasch, Martin
Cruz Smith, Nicholas Meyer, George Plimpton, Nell Irvin Painter, Kip Thorne,
Walter LeFeber, and Richard Sennett. Barber resides in New York with his
wife, the literary agent Virginia Barber, and two cats.
(Sa 11:30 a.m. Village & 2:30 p.m. City Council)
Virginia Barber graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Phi
Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, with honors in English. She holds an M.A. and
a Ph.D. in American Literature from Duke University. In 1974, Barber opened
the Virginia Barber Literary Agency in New York City with the proceeds from
a book, The Mother Person, coauthored with Merrill Skaggs. Her articles
have appeared in Redbook, Glamour, New Woman, Change, and the Bulletin
of Bibliography. (Sa 1 p.m. & 2:30 p.m. City Council)
Coy Barefoot is a columnist with the C-Ville Weekly and is
currently working on a book about the history of UVa and Charlottesville
entitled The Corner. He is a volunteer with Albemarle County Historical
Society and a regular guest lecturer on local history at the University
of Virginia. (Sa 10 a.m. Vinegar Hill & 4 p.m. City Council; Su 10:30
a.m. Courthouse)
Christina Bartolomeo is a lifelong native of the Washington, D.C.,
area, where she was born in 1961. She works as a writer and graphic designer
for the American Federation of Teachers. She has published two stories in
Cosmopolitan magazine. Her first novel, Cupid and Diana, is
a romantic comedy with family and business twists and will be published
by Scribner in early 1988. (Sa 4 p.m. Village)
Josef Beery is a graphic designer who lives in Charlottesville. He
is president of the McGuffey Arts of the Book Center (ABC), founded in 1995.
Beery is a participant in the Charlottesville Public Schools Book Buddy
Program. He is also the designer of VFOB logo and art. (Sa 2 p.m. McGuffey;
Su 2:30 p.m. McGuffey)
Madison Smartt Bell is the author of nine novels, including The
Washington Square Ensemble, Save Me, Joe Louis, and Soldier's Joy,
which received the Lillian Smith Award in 1989. Bell has also published
two collections of short stories: Zero db and Barking Man.
His eighth novel, All Souls Rising, was a finalist for the 1995 National
Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award. His ninth, Ten Indians,
was published by Pantheon in November 1996. Born and raised in Tennessee,
he has lived in New York and in London and now lives in Baltimore, Md. Since
1984 he has taught at Goucher College, where he is currently writer in residence,
along with his wife, the poet Elizabeth Spires. (Sa 8 p.m. Culbreth)
Clifford Bennet is an associate professor in the Curry School of
Education at the University of Virginia. He has served on advisory boards
of the Virginia Department of Education and the State Council of Higher
Education for Virginia, and on review panels for the U.S. Department of
Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Council
for Social Studies. (F 10:30 a.m. & 8 p.m. WAHS)
Greg Bevan is a cofounder of the Charlottesville Writing Center.
He was a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where he earned
his M.F.A. in fiction. He has judged creative writing contests and taught
undergraduate workshops. He is working on his first book.(F 4:30 p.m. Central)
Dan Bieker writes poetry and short fiction and is a member of the
Apple Mountain Poets. He lives on a farm in North Garden and makes his living
as a home builder and natural sciences instructor at PVCC. (Th 4 p.m. Central)
Pam Black, adjunct instructor in art at Piedmont Virginia Community
College, is a juror, curator, and council member for McGuffey Art Center/Second
Street Gallery in Charlottesville. Black's work has been widely shown throughout
Virginia and in New York and Washington, D.C. (Th 2:30 p.m. PVCC)
Staige D. Blackford has been editor of the Virginia Quarterly
Review since 1975. He has also served as special assistant to the office
of the president, University of Virginia, since 1974. Prior to joining the
university, he served in the governor's office, as press secretary and speech
writer. He has also worked for the Virginia Pilot, Time, and the
Central Intelligence Agency. (Sa 4:30 p.m. UVa Bookstore)
Sydney Blair is an associate English professor at the University
of Virginia, currently teaching creative writing. She first studied writing
at PVCC well after college and having a family. She then won a fellowship
to enter UVa's Creative Writing Program. She received her M.A. in 1986,
and was the administrator of the Creative Writing Program for nine years.
Her first novel, Buffalo, received high praise, and a second one
now awaits the presses. (Sa 4 p.m. Village)
Joseph Blotner was educated at Drew, Northwestern, and the University
of Pennsylvania. He has taught at four universities and is professor of
English emeritus at the University of Michigan. He has written extensively
on William Faulkner, and with Noel Polk he edited the Library of America's
three volumes of Faulkner's novels. He has twice been a Guggenheim Fellow
and has been the recipient of numerous other fellowships. His latest book,
a biography of Robert Penn Warren, will be published in 1997.(Th 3 p.m.
Barnes & Noble)
Tommy Bogger is the Dean of Library Services and Special Collections
at Norfolk State University. His book Free Blacks in Norfolk, VA., 1790
- 1860 will be published by the University Press of Virginia this spring.
(Su 1 p.m. McGuffey)
Larry Bond was in the navy for six years and served for two years
with the Naval Reserve Intelligence Program. He is the designer of the Harpoon
gaming system, which is used at the Naval Academy, in several ROTC installations,
and on several surface ships as a training aid. He also collaborated on
Red Storm Rising with Tom Clancy, and The Enemy Within was
published by Warner Books in February 1996 and released in paperback in
1997. Bond lives with his family in Virginia outside of Washington, D.C.
(Sa 3 p.m. Barnes & Noble)
Mitchell Bowman is a graduate of the University of Virginia and a
former Air Force fighter pilot. As founder of Historic Air Tours, Inc.,
Mitchell specializes in exploring aspects of Virginia's history best seen
from the aerial view. He is a faculty member of the Civil War Society and
lectures frequently throughout the state. His new book, Where Banners
Flew: an Aerial View of Virginia History, will be released in the spring
of 1997. (F 2 p.m. Central)
Eileen Boyd (Sa 1:30 p.m. Omni)
John Gregory Brown, for his first novel, Decorations in a Ruined
Cemetery, received the 1994 Lillian Smith Award and in England, the
1996 Steinbeck Award. A native of New Orleans, Brown holds the Julia Jackson
Nichols Chair in English and Creative Writing at Sweet Briar College. In
1993 he received a Lyndhurst Prize, and he was named a regional winner in
GRANTA magazine's "Best Young American Novelists" competition.
His second novel, The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur, was
published this year by Houghton Mifflin. He lives in Virginia with his wife
Carrie, and their three children. (Th 1 p.m. Central)
John K. Brown (Su 3 p.m. City Council)
Brenda Brown-Grooms is a professional actress, singer, writer, and
minister. A native of Charlottesville, she writes poems and plays. Her most
recent project is a triptych, "Voices for the Voiceless: Sally Hemings,
Martha Jefferson Randolph, and Elizabeth Hemings of Monticello." (F
10:30 a.m. & 8 p.m. WAHS; Sa 12:30 p.m. McGuffey)
Earl Bruce (Sa 1:30 p.m. Omni)
Thomas Buell has a new book, The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership
in the Civil War, recently published by the Crown Publishing Group.
(Sa 10:30 a.m. New Dominion)
Brenda Burrough Gresham is a storyteller who lives in Richmond, Va. Her tales are rich with the influence of African-American and Caribbean traditions, and she uses her tales to teach children to think instead of to fight with guns and fists. She is currently working on her first book about Lott Cary, the first black missionary to Africa. (Th 1 p.m. CHS; F 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. Jackson-Via)
Max Byrd is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Jefferson.
He is also the author of five suspense novels, including the Shamus - Award
winning California Thriller. An authority on eighteenth-century literature,
Byrd extensively researched the material that went into the writing of Jackson,
his latest novel, published in February 1997. He makes his home in Davis,
California, where he is at work on a new work of historical fiction. (Su
1 p.m. Barnes & Noble)
Jeannette Caines is the author of several highly acclaimed picture
books about children and families, including Abby, Daddy, and Just
Us Women. She is the recipient of the National Black Child Development
Institute's Certificate of Merit and Appreciation. Her 1992 book, Just
Us Women, has been read on Public Television as a "Reading Rainbow
Book." She grew up in New York City and now resides in Charlottesville.
(Tu 7 p.m. Agnor-Hurt; Th 4:00 p.m. Village)
Deloris Campbell, a native of South Carolina, has degrees from South
Carolina State University and the University of Virginia. Campbell is the
librarian at Stony Point Elementary School and values children's literature
because she believes that children who are read to and read will become
lovers of books. (Th 4 p.m. Village)
Robert Cane is principal of Western Albemarle High School. Prior
to entering public education in 1992, he was a corporate lawyer, law teacher,
and law school associate dean. (F 10:30 a.m. & 8 p.m. WAHS)
Alan Canton is the author of the popular business book ComputerMoney
and one of the principals of Adams-Blake Publishing. In addition to his
duties at Adams-Blake, he is a syndicated writer, speaker, and much published
commentator on national small-business issues. His new book, The Silver
Pen: Starting a Profitable Writing Business from a Lifetime of Experience
- a Guide for Older People, was published in 1996. (F 2 p.m. City Council)
Lorene Cary was raised in Philadelphia and Yeadon, Penn. Since then,
she has taught at St. Paul's School, Antioch University (Philadelphia campus),
and the University of the Arts, and has written articles for such publications
as Essence and the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine.
Her short fiction has been published in Obsidian, and her first book,
Black Ice, is a memoir of her education at St. Paul's School. Cary's
newest book, The Price of a Child, is the story of a former slave
who comes to Philadelphia. (F 4:30 p.m. New Dominion)
John Casey, an avid rower as well as writer, won the National Book
Award for Spartina in 1989. He is currently working on a novel set
in Charlottesville. (Su 12 p.m. City Council)
Rosamond Casey has been a teacher of art since 1976. She is a professional
calligraphic designer who works for both commercial and private commission.
A graduate of the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and Tufts University,
Casey continues to exhibit her paintings regularly. She has been a member
of the McGuffey Art Center since 1981 and is an organizing member of McGuffey
Arts of the Book Center. (Sa 12:30 p.m. McGuffey)
Gary M. Chassman, director of Verve Editions, has twenty-four years
of experience in the fine illustrated book industry as a publishing executive
and as an entrepreneur. Prior to the establishment of his own book production
company, he served as publisher of Callaway Editions. (Sa 11 a.m. McGuffey)
H. Nichols B. Clark currently serves as curator of American
art at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Va. Trinkett Clark was
formerly curator of twentieth-century art at the Chrysler Museum. The Clarks
have written widely and coordinated exhibitions at a number of institutions.
They are the authors, with Michael Patrick Hearn, of Myth, Magic, and
Mystery: One Hundred Years of American Children's Book Illustration.
(Th 4 p.m. Northside; F 10:30 a.m. Northside)
Jonathan Coleman, author of nonfiction best-sellers At Mother's
Request and Exit the Rainmaker, both graduated from and taught
creative nonfiction writing at the University of Virginia. His forthcoming
book, Long Way to Go: Black and White in America, will be published
in 1997. (F 8 p.m. Culbreth Theater; Sa 10 a.m. Village; Su 4 p.m. Central)
Alborto Coll is professor of strategy and policy at the Naval War
College and author of The Wisdom of Statecraft. (Th 5 p.m. Miller
Center)
Ishmail Conway is the director of the Luther P. Jackson Cultural
Center at the University of Virginia. (F 2 p.m. Helms)
Leni Covington, one of seven children, grew up on a beef farm in
Massilon, Ohio. Her teaching experience includes work with parent education,
handicapped infants, and individualizing tutoring programs for remedial
students. She is currently a teacher at Crossroads Waldorf School, where
she has held numerous teaching and administrative positions. (F 2:30 p.m.
McGuffey)
Maurice Cox (Su 3 p.m. Village)
Stephen Cushman is Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professor of English
at the University of Virginia. He is the author of two critical studies,
William Carlos Williams and the Meaning of Measure (Yale, 1985) and
Fictions of Form in American Poetry (Princeton, 1993), as well as
a collection of poems, Blue Pajamas, forthcoming from Louisiana State
University Press in 1998. He is currently working on a book about Civil
War writing. (F 10:30 a.m. City Council)
Morgan Simone Daleo, currently a teacher in an after-school program,
is a mother, educator, writer, and performing artist. She has been teaching,
performing, and working with both children and adults through the creative
arts for more than twenty years. A storyteller for the Jefferson-Madison
Regional Libraries and the Virginia Discovery Museum, she has also taught
on the theater arts faculties of Sonoma State University and Wesleyan University.
(Sa 1 p.m. Central; Su 2 p.m. Discovery Museum)
Daryl Cumber Dance is professor of English at the University of Richmond.
She has also taught at Virginia State University, Virginia Commonwealth
University, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the
author of Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans,
Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans, and others. She edited
Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Sourcebook.
(F 8 p.m. Culbreth)
Leon Dash is a staff reporter for the investigative and special projects
department of the Washington Post. A graduate of Howard University,
Dash joined the Post as a metropolitan reporter in 1966 and served
as West Africa bureau chief for five years before joining the investigations
unit in 1984. He has won numerous honors, including the George Polk Memorial
Award of the Overseas Press Club and the Pulitzer Prize. His previous book,
When Children Want Children, was based on his award-winning Post
series on adolescent childbearing. His most recent book, Rosa Lee:
A Mother and Her Family in Urban America, was released in September
1996. He lives in Mt. Rainier, Md. (Sa 11:30 a.m. City Council & 3 p.m.
Ujamaa)
Sharon Deal teaches English and history at Tandem Friends School.
Sharon has participated in writing and poetry workshops at Johns Hopkins
University, St. John's Graduate Institute, Bard Institute for Writing and
Thinking, and George Washington University. (F 7:30 p.m. Tandem Friends)
John D'earth is an internationally recognized jazz trumpeter and
composer, who has performed and recorded with numerous artists including
Buddy Rich, Miles Davis, and Bruce Hornsby. (Th 10 p.m. Miller's)
Everette Dennis is senior vice president of the Freedom Forum. (Su
3 p.m. Rotunda)
David M. Doody is the manager of photographic services for the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation. He is the primary photographer for the Colonial
Williamsburg Journal and is regularly published internationally through
several leading stock agencies. His most recent book is Williamsburg:
A Seasonal Sampler. (F 2 p.m. Central)
Rita Dove, Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of
Virginia, served as United States Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry
to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995. Her many works include The
Yellow House on the Corner, Museum, and Thomas and Beulah, for
which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. In 1996 she was awarded a Charles
Frankel Prize in the Humanities. (Su 5 p.m. Central)
Karen Dowd is a management consultant with Brecker and Merryman,
Inc. who works in New York City and lives with her husband, Tom, in Charlottesville.
Formerly she served for ten years as the director of placement for the University
of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business. She authors a bimonthly
column on graduate management education issues for the MBA Newsletter
and is the author of an upcoming report on Future Competencies Desired
by Employers. (Sa 3 p.m. Omni)
Alec Dubro was born in Brooklyn and began his writing career in 1968
as a rock critic with Rolling Stone magazine. Since that time, he
has written for dozens of publications and is the coauthor of Yakuza,
the standard work on Japanese organized crime. He now serves as the vice
president of the National Writers Union, and his most recent book, American
Democracy, will be published in Tokyo later this year. He is married
and lives on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Su 1:30 p.m. Village)
Ellen Dudley is pursuing an M.A. in Writing at Johns Hopkins and
writing a book on adventure travel that will be published by McGraw-Hill
in 1998. She has coauthored two books with her husband, Eric Seaborg: Hiking
and Backpacking and American Discoveries, a travel narrative
that won the second Barbara Savage Miles From Nowhere Award. (Su 4:30 p.m.
City Council)
Ted Edlich has served as the president of Total Action Against Poverty
since 1975. He has published articles and edited periodicals dealing with
community-action efforts to alleviate poverty. His agency has piloted and
replicated successful projects dealing with water and wastewater, minority
access to higher education, felon recidivist reduction, primary health care
for poor children, and, most recently, the development of a regular inspection
program for low-income rental housing by the City of Roanoke. (Sa 11:30
a.m. City Council)
Barbara Elias is a faculty member in elementary education at Virginia
State University. She incorporates children's literature in her teaching
methods courses. A graduate of Spelman College, Elias earned her M.A. from
Virginia State University, and has done further study at the University
of Virginia. (Th 4 p.m. Village)
Carol Ely (Su 3 p.m. Village)
Edward Falco lives in Blacksburg, Va., where he teaches writing and
literature at Virginia Tech. He is the author of the novel Winter in
Florida, the hypertext novel A Dream with Demons (Eastgate Systems,
forthcoming), and two collections of short stories: Acid, which won
the 1995 Richard Sullivan Prize from the University of Notre Dame, and Plato
at Scratch Daniel's and Other Stories. He has recently completed a new
novel, High Falls. (Su 3 p.m. Barnes & Noble)
Dr. Lee Francis is a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe and a member
of the Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers & Storytellers. (Sa
10 a.m. City Council)
Allen Freeman is an Honors-level world history and a resource teacher
for gifted students at Western Albemarle High School. He is a former director
of the WAHS Theater Company. Mr. Freeman has a B.A. from the University
of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences (where he was an Echols Scholar)
and an M.A. from the Curry School of Education. (F 10:30 a.m. & 8 p.m.
WAHS)
Robert Friedman is President of Hampton Roads Publishing. (F 3:30
p.m. & 5 p.m. City Council)
Jamie Fuller is a poet and translator. She lives in Charlottesville.
Her book The Diary of Emily Dickinson was published in November 1996
by St. Martin's Press. (F 2:30 p.m. New Dominion)
Ernest Furgurson (Sa 10:30 a.m. New Dominion)
Frances Furlong teaches English and drama at Western Albemarle High
School. She earned an M.A. in Drama from the University of Virginia. She
is the cofounder of the Old Michie Theatre in Charlottesville and is a puppeteer
and youth theater director. (F 10:30 a.m. 8 p.m. WAHS)
John Lewis Gaddis is professor of history at Ohio University and
author of The United States and the End of the Cold War. (F
11 a.m. Miller Ctr)
Glenn Gaesser, is an associate professor of exercise physiology and
associate director of the adult fitness program at the University of Virginia.
Gaesser is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), writes
an exercise physiology column for Sports Medicine Digest, and has
been interviewed for articles on fitness that have appeared in the Los
Angeles Times, and magazines such as Shape, Redbook, Glamour,
and Better Homes and Gardens. He is the author of the recent
book Big Fat Lies. (Th 2:30 p.m. Central)
George Garrett is the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at
the University of Virginia. He is the author of over twenty- five books,
including poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism, and is editor and coeditor
of seventeen others. His most recent books are: The King of Babylon Shall
Not Come against You, The Sorrows of Fat City, and Whistling in the
Dark. He is currently fiction editor for the Texas Review. He
has been a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for
the Arts Sabbatical fellowship, and a Ford Foundation grant. He has taught
at the University of Michigan, Bennington College, and Princeton University.
He is Cultural Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and in 1989 he
received the T. S. Eliot Award. More recently, he received the PEN/Faulkner
Bernard Malamud Award for Short Fiction. He is chancellor of the Fellowship
of Southern Writers. (Th 1 p.m. City Council; F 4:30 p.m. Central; Sa 12
p.m. UVa Bookstore; 2 p.m. Rotunda)
Nikki Giovanni, poet, recording artist, and lecturer, is the winner
of the Ohioana Book Award for Sacred Cows . . . and Other Edibles.
She won the Silver Apple Award at the Oakland Museum Film Festival in 1988
for Spirit to Spirit. She has published thirteen books of
poetry, including some for young readers. She has been named woman of the
year by the NAACP of Lynchburg, Mademoiselle, Ladies Home Journal, and
the YMCA - Cincinnati Chapter. A professor of English at Virginia Tech in
Blacksburg, Giovanni recently published Grandmothers: A Multicultural
Anthology of Poems, Short Stories, and Reminiscences about the Keepers
of Our Traditions, and Love Poems. (Sa 10:30 a.m. Ujamaa, 2 p.m.
McGuffey, 4 p.m. First Baptist)
Larry Goldstein (Th 7 p.m. Venable School)
Elmer Gaden (Su 3 p.m. City Council)
Annette Gordon-Reed was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard
Law School. She lives in New York City, where she teaches property, American
slavery and the law, and criminal procedure at New York Law School. Her
new book Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
will be released in April 1997 by the University Press of Virginia.
(Th 8:00 p.m. First Baptist)
Arthur C. Greene, Jr., professor at the University of Virginia, received
a Certificate of Appreciation from the Alliance for Arts Education of the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In 1989, he was awarded
the Raven Faculty Award and the Outstanding Speech Educator Award from the
National Federation of Interscholastic Speech and Debate Associations. (F
10:30 a.m. & 8 p.m. WAHS)
John Grisham was the country's best-selling author of 1996. His popular
legal thrillers include A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Pelican
Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, and The Runaway Jury.
His newest book, The Partner, was just released in February 1997.
Grisham received his undergraduate and law degrees from Mississippi State
University. He lives both in Charlottesville, Va., and Oxford, Miss., where
he is an enthusiastic Little League baseball coach. (F 12 p.m. Omni)
Doris Gwaltney has been the coordinator of the Christopher Newport
University Writers Conference for eight years. She also teaches writing
in the continuing education program at Christopher Newport University. She
is a lifelong student of the plays of William Shakespeare. Her novel Shakespeare's
Sister was published in 1995 by Hampton Roads Publishing. (F 5 p.m.
City Council)
Ellen Gwynn (Passages to the Sea, 1993) is a fellow of the
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a biologist who writes of the
North Carolina coast. The granddaughter of an English ecclesiastical architect,
she is at work on a sequel that melds his biography and her impressions
of a barrier island as a metaphor for evolution. (Sa 10 a.m. Papercraft)
Allen Hale is the owner of Bueto Books, in Shipman, Va., a bookseller
specializing in ornithology books. He is also a nature lover and bird-watcher
of long standing. (Su 1 p.m. Central)
Dick Harrington, professor of English at PVCC, enjoys working with
students in the act of writing. His book Working Together, a guide
to peer collaboration for improving college writing, is scheduled for December
publication by Harcourt Brace. He also writes poetry, an occasional song,
articles for professional journals, and journalistic pieces on education,
backcountry skiing, and old-time music. (F 1:30 p.m. PVCC)
Heidi Hartwiger is an English teacher and author of A Gift of
Herbs (Rodale Press) and, more recently, All Join Hands: The Forgotten
Art of Playing with Children (Downhome Press). She resides in Yorktown,
Va. (Th 9 a.m. Buford Middle School)
Mary Kathryn Hassett, hired by the University Press of Virginia in
1990 as sales and publicity director, was also named assistant director
of the press in 1996. (Sa 11 a.m. University Press)
Cliff Haury is a professor at Piedmont Virginia Community College.
(Sa 11:30 a.m. Central)
Willetta L. Heising is the author of the Macavity Award - winning
Detecting Women: A Reader's Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written
by Women and of its popular successor, Detecting Women 2 (Purple
Moon Press). Her forthcoming Detecting Men (May 1997) features more
than 800 series created by contemporary male authors. A frequent panel moderator
and conference speaker, she is a member of the Mid America Publishers Association
and Sisters in Crime. (Th 2:30 p.m. City Council)
Robert R. Hewitt III is a writer and editor living in Albemarle County.
He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Virginia
and Regent College in Vancouver, B.C. His first book, Seeds of Faith,
has been two and a half years in the making. (Th 8 p.m. Book Bag)
Susan Tyler Hitchcock has been a nonfiction free-lance writer for
twenty years. Her first book, Gather Ye Wild Things, was published
by Harper & Row in 1980 and reissued last year by the University Press
of Virginia. She writes a column in Albemarle Magazine called "Letters
from Home." Her next book, Coming About: One Family's Journey,
will be published by Ballantine Books in 1997 or 1998. (Su 2 p.m. New Dominion)
John Holmes is a Shenandoah Valley teacher who has done extensive
research on Colonial America and specifically on Thomas Jefferson. He is
the author of the newly published book Thomas Jefferson Treats Himself:
Herbs, Physicke, and Nutrition in Early America. (F 7 p.m. CHS)
Julie Horan, is author of The Porcelain God. (F 2 p.m. CHS)
Michael Hudson is editor and coauthor of Merchants of Misery:
How Corporate America Profits from Poverty. A staff writer with the
Roanoke Times, he has written for dozens of publications including
the New York Times and the Washington Post. His work has won
many honors, including a John Hancock Award for business writing and a Sidney
Hillman Award for social-justice journalism. (Sa 11:30 a.m. City Council)
Susan Hull, a member of the Apple Mountain Poets, holds a M.F.A.
degree from the University of Virginia, and teaches English at Albemarle
High School. She has published in Virginia Country, Iris: A Journal about
Women, and Common Journeys. A native of Madison County, she resides
in Charlottesville but often writes about things and people "up home."
(Th 4 p.m. Central)
Edgar A. Imhoff is the author of Always at Home (Southern
Illinois University Press, 1993), a series of vignettes about growing up
in southern Illinois during the Great Depression; this book won the SIU
Press annual Delta Award for literature. A retired earth scientist, he has
published poetry, essays, and short stories. (Su 2 p.m. New Dominion)
Susan Imhof, a member of the Apple Mountain Poets, holds a M.F.A.
degree from Warren Wilson College and has published poems in the Virginia
Quarterly Review, the New Virginia Review, and Timbuktu.
She lives and works in Charlottesville, Va.
(Th 4 p.m. Central)
Karen S. James is assistant Professor of French at Roanoke College.
She received her Ph.D. in French from the University of Virginia in 1992
and has written several articles on the Lyonnaise poet Pernette du Guillet
(c. 1520 - 1545). A frequent participant in classes offered by the Rare
Book School, James regularly incorporates the history of Renaissance book
production in her teaching. She is creating an on-line exhibit of sixteenth-century
French books from Alderman Library's Gordon Collection. (Th 4 p.m. Alderman)
Gregory Jaynes was born in Alabama and grew up in Memphis, Tenn.
He has had a full career as a journalist, writing from the United States
and more than sixty other countries. He still writes occasionally for Esquire,
which adapted his most recent book, Come Hell or High Water (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, September 1997), in its December issue. He lives in
New York City, where he has just commenced work on a history of the New
York Police Department, to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
(F 8 p.m. Culbreth)
Chuck Jones
is the animator who created Bugs Bunny. (Sa 10 a.m. Vinegar Hill)
Matthew F. Jones is the author of three critically acclaimed novels:
The Cooter Farm, The Elements of Hitting, and A Single Shot. He
has taught writing at a number of colleges and universities, most recently
as the 1997 fiction writer in residence at Randolph-Macon College. His fourth
novel, Blind Pursuit, will be published by Farrar, Straus, &
Giroux in June 1997. (Su 12 p.m. City Council)
Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., a native of Norfolk, is curator of technical
services, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library.
He specializes in Civil War and African- American history and is the author
of twenty-five articles and three books, including Black Confederates
and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, which received the 1995 Kirkland
Certificate of Meritorious Excellence. He is researching a fourth book,
Black Virginia, 1619 - 1995. (Su 1 p.m. McGuffey)
Judy Jordan was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in the M.F.A. poetry program
at the University of Virginia and a recipient of a 1996 Virginia Commission
for the Arts fellowship. Her book of poetry, Carolina Ghost Woods,
is in search of a publisher, and she is nearing completion of her novel,
Old Fenwick Road. She is an adjunct professor of composition, english
literature, southern literature, and creative writing at PVCC. (F 1:30 p.m.
PVCC)
Donald Justice is the author of The Summer Anniversaries, The
Sunset Maker, A Donald Justice Reader, and others. He has been a Guggenheim
Foundation Fellow in poetry and the recipient of many other fellowships.
In 1980 he received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Selected Poems.
He received a Bollingen prize for poems in 1991 and most recently won the
Lannan Foundation Literary Award in 1997. (Th 8 p.m. Culbreth)
Mary Motley Kalgeris, who now lives in Charlottesville, studied photography
at the Maine Photographic Workshop and the International Center of Photography
in New York, where she also served on the faculty. Her work has been shown
in galleries and museums internationally, and three monographs have been
published, including Giving Birth (Harper & Row, 1982), Mother:
A Collective Portrait (E. P. Dutton, 1986), and Home of the Brave
(E. P. Dutton, 1989). Her current book, With this Ring, will be published
by the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, V.A. in the spring of 1997. The accompanying
exhibition will travel to museums nationwide through 1999. (Su 2:30 p.m.
Central)
Stefan Kanfer, a resident of Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., has been a
writer and an editor for Time magazine for more than twenty years.
His writings on books, theater, music, film, and animation have appeared
in most major periodicals, including the New York Times, the New
Republic, the Atlantic, and Esquire. He is the author
of six previous books, and two of his plays have been produced off-Broadway.
He is the only journalist to serve on the President's Commission on the
Holocaust. His new book, Serious Business: The Art and Commerce of Animation
in America, from Betty Boop to Toy Story, will be released in April
1997 by Scribner. (Sa 10 a.m. Vinegar Hill)
Claire Kaplan is a free-lance writer, in addition to holding down
her day job at the University of Virginia Women's Center. She has published
articles in various magazines and newsletters, and has a book chapter in
press and other works in progress. A California native, she first joined
the National Writers Union in the mid eighties while living in Los Angeles.
She believes Charlottesville is ripe for a NWU local. (Su 1:30 p.m. Village)
Nina King, has held the post of editor of Book World, the
literary review section of the Washington Post, since 1988. Prior
to joining the Post, King served as book editor of Newsday.
Before joining Newsday, King taught English at Queens College of
the City University of New York, and at Wayne State University in Detroit.
King is a former president of the National Book Critics Circle. (Sa 4:30
p.m. UVa Bookstore)
Arthur Kirsch is a professor of English at UVa and the author of
The Passions of Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes, in which he investigates
both Renaissance and modern conceptions of character. He has lectured widely
on Shakespeare, and his articles and reviews have appeared in a broad range
of publications, including the Shakespeare Quarterly. He received
the University of Virginia Alumni Association's Distinguished Professor
Award in 1989. (Sa 3 p.m. Rotunda)
Jane E. Kirtley is executive director of the Reporters Committee for
Freedom of the Press. Since 1985 she has overseen the legal defense and
publications efforts of the Reporters Committee, as well as supervising
the group's fund-raising activities. She also edits the committee's quarterly
magazine, The News Media and The Law. (Su 3 p.m. Rotunda)
Phyllis Knight is the author of three novels featuring musician/detective
Lil Ritchie: Switching the Odds, nominated for the Shamus Award for
Best First Private Eye Novel of 1992; followed by Shattered Rhythms
and Lost to Sight. A guitar player since the age of eleven, she has
been a founding member of several bands, and still writes and performs original
music with like-minded friends. She continues to work on novel number four,
which she describes as not-a-mystery. (Th 10 p.m. Miller's)
Phyllis Koch-Sheras, Ph.d., has worked in state hospitals, university
counseling centers, and private practice for more than twenty years. She
is coauthor of several books on dreams, including The Dream Sourcebook
and The Dream Sourcebook Journal. She is president of the Creative
and Healing Arts Institute in Charlottesville and past president of the
Virginia Applied Psychology Academy. (Th 2 p.m. Quest Book)
L'Alliance Francaise will present a program led by Catherine Shaps,
Anne Ranchin, and Caroline Bertrand, who raise their children bilingually
and participate in a French-speaking play group. (Sa 10:30 a.m. Central)
Brian P. Lamb helped found C-SPAN, the Cable Satellite Public Affairs
Network, and has served as the company's chief executive since its beginnings.
The concept of a public-affairs network that provides in-depth coverage
of national and international issues was a natural for Mr. Lamb, who has
been both a journalist and political press secretary. Today's C-SPAN employs
230 people and offers two 24-hour video channels, C-SPAN and C-SPAN 2, plus
two audio networks. (Sa 3 p.m. & 4:30 p.m. UVa Bookstore)
Jeanne Larsen is professor of English at Hollins College, where she
teaches in the creative writing program. Her first book, James Cook in
Search of Terra Incognita, won the Associated Writing Program's annual
award in poetry. Her latest book, the novel Manchu Palaces, was published
in 1996. (Th 1 p.m. City Council)
Owen Laster, in addition to representing a distinguished roster of
best-selling authors, is executive vice president and head of worldwide
literary operations for the William Morris Agency. Among the eminent writers
Laster has handled over the last twenty-five years are James Michener, Gore
Vidal, Dominic Dunne, Susan Isaacs, William Diehl, Chaim Potok, Judith McNaught,
and the estates of Ralph Ellison and Robert Penn Warren. A New Jersey native,
Laster graduated from Syracuse University. (Sa 10 a.m. Village; 2:30 p.m.
City Council)
Trish Lawrence, a storyteller, lately from Oregon, is the events
coordinator for Borders Books in Richmond, Va. Lawrence is also currently
getting her teaching degree in art education from VCU. (Sa 3 p.m. Omni)
Edith "Winx" Lawrence, is associate professor in the Curry
Programs in Clinical and School Psychology, UVa and coauthor of Competence,
Courage, and Change (W. W. Norton, 1993). She has worked extensively
with the Monticello Community Action Agency on developing a family-oriented
approach to helping families move out of poverty. (Sa 11:30 a.m. City Council)
K. Edward Lay is the Cary D. Langhorne Professor of Architecture
at the University of Virginia. Lay's publications include monographs in
Pennsylvania Folklife journal, and he is a coauthor of A Virginia
Family and Its Plantation Houses (1987). He has just completed a manuscript,
An Architectural History of Albemarle County, which is being reviewed
by publishers. (Th 4 p.m. City Council)
Suzanne Lebsock is professor of history at the University of Washington.
Her first book, The Free Women of Petersburg, won the Bancroft Prize
for American history, as well as the Berkshire Conference Prize for the
best book authored by a woman in any field. She is currently working on
a book about a much- publicized trial in Lunenburg County, Va. in 1895.
(Sa 1 p.m. Village)
Judy Leemann is a Charlottesville resident and UVa graduate currently
making art, working with young people, and studying movement. The Women's
Book Project is her exploration of how collaborative art, in book form,
can become a community building tool. (F 3 p.m. Rotunda)
Phyllis Leffler is director of the Institute for Public History at
the University of Virginia. (Su 3 p.m. Village)
Etta Legner directs the pre-school and kindergarten at St. Anne's-Belfield
School and has taught early childhood courses for Piedmont Virginia Community
College. She has a graduate degree in early childhood education from the
University of Virginia. (Th 4 p.m. Book Bag)
Sharon Leiter has written and published poetry, fiction, and literary
criticism. She is the author of a volume of poetry, The Lady and the
Bailiff of Time, and a literary study of Anna Akhmatova, Akhmatova's
Petersburg. In 1990, she won a Virginia Prize For Fiction for a short-story
manuscript, "Dream Fatigue." (Su 2 p.m. New Dominion)
Janet Lembke is a translator of Greek and Latin, as well as a natural
historian. She is the author of Dangerous Birds, Shake Them 'Simmons
Down, River Time, Looking for Eagles, and Skinny Dipping. She
divides her time between her home in Staunton, Va., and the banks of North
Carolina's lower Neuse River, where she and her husband, the Chief, live
happily in his riverside trailer. (Su 1 p.m. Central)
Mark Lindensmith is a lawyer and the author of the short story collection
Short-Term Losses, (Southern Methodist University Press). He and
his wife and six children live in Earlysville, Va. (F 4:30 p.m. Central;
Su 12 p.m. City Council)
Literacy Volunteers of America provide training and instructional
assistance to volunteer tutors who work one-to-one or in small groups with
adult learners, helping them to achieve their personal reading goals. (Th
7:30 p.m. Village; Sa 11 a.m. McGuffey)
Mayapriya Long and her husband own Bookwrights Press, in Charlottesville.
Bookwrights is both a trade and scholarly publisher and a book production
company for other publishers and for individuals who wish to publish their
book independently. (Th 10 a.m. Senior Center)
Judy Longley is the author of a full-length volume of poetry, My
Journey Toward You, which was awarded the 1993 Marianne Moore Prize
for Poetry by Helicon Nine Editions. Her chapbooks are Rowing Past Eden
(Nightshade Press), and Parallel Lives (Owl Creek Press). Her poems
have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly
Review, and Western Humanities Review, among others. She is a
member of the Apple Mountain Poets. (Th 4 p.m. Central)
Frank Lovelock, an associate professor of English at Piedmont Virginia
Community College, has taught in high schools, private schools, and several
universities. Lovelock served as a staff writer for U.S. Army publications
and for a Charlottesville-based health publication. His writing has also
appeared in Newsweek, and Prime of Life, as well as in local
and national newspapers. At present he is writing fiction. (F 1:30 p.m.
PVCC)
Lois Lowry was born in Honolulu, Hi., and grew up in Pennsylvania,
Tokyo, and New York. She was educated at Brown University and the University
of Southern Maine. She currently lives in Cambridge, Masss. and Sanbornton,
N.H. She is the author of numerous magazine articles and twenty-three books
for young people. She has twice won the Newbery Medal. (Sa 4 p.m. Lane &
8 p.m. Culbreth)
John D. Lyons, Commonwealth Professor of French, is an internationally
recognized scholar in seventeenth-century French literature. He joined the
University of Virginia faculty in 1987 after teaching for fifteen years
at Dartmouth College and spending one year on the faculty of the Centre
Universitaire Americain du Cinema in Paris. His most recent book is The
Tragedy of Origins: Pierre Corneille and Historical Perspective. (Sa
3 p.m. Rotunda)
Mary E. Lyons is a former teacher and librarian, and began sharing
the "lost stories" of women and African-Americans with young people
in 1980. The author of ten books, including Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life
and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston and Letters From a Slave Girl: The Story
of Harriet Jacobs, she sees writing as a way to continue what she started
in the classroom. Of being a southerner, she says, "I was born in Georgia,
and by the age of eleven I had already lived in five southern states and
eight southern towns. That's why most of my books concern the South: it's
one way of finding "home." (F 1 p.m. Central)
Donald McCaig has written more books than he cares to remember and
can be read in a dozen foreign languages. He's been published in the New
York Times, Smithsonian, Washington Post, Harper's, Atlantic, and Sports
Illustrated, and "once won a literary prize, but it was a French
literary prize." He writes about rural living for NPR's "All Things
Considered," which broadcasts his comments on slow days when the politicians
aren't doing much. For twenty-five years, he has raised sheep on a farm
in Highland County, where his Border Collies do as much of the work as mere
dogs can and his wife Anne does the rest. (F 10:30 a.m. City Council)
Ida McCall has been an editorial intern at the University Press of
Virginia since September 1996. (Sa 11 a.m. University Press)
Kevin W. McCarthy is founder and president of U.S. Partners, Inc.,
a business consulting firm in Winter Park, Fla. A graduate of the Darden
School, McCarthy is the author of The On-Purpose Person and the soon-to-be-published,
The On-Purpose Business. (Th 4 p.m. Darden)
Sharyn McCrumb is the author of fourteen novels, including the highly
acclaimed "Ballad Books" (Scribners and Dutton). McCrumb has won
more awards in crime fiction than any other author, including all of the
major U.S. crime fiction awards. She has received the Edgar, two Anthony
Awards, two Macavity Awards, three Agatha Awards and the Nero. She has twice
won the Best Appalachian Novel Award. The fifth novel in the Ballad series,
The Ballad of Frankie Silver (Dutton), is scheduled for release in
1998. (Th 1 p.m. Central)
Deborah E. McDowell, professor of English at the University of Virginia,
is the author of the recently published work Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories
of Kin. McDowell is the founding editor of the Beacon Black Women Writers
Series, and coeditor with Arnold Rampersad of Slavery and the Literary
Imagination. She is also the author of The Changing Same: Studies
in Fiction by Black Women and editor of the new Norton Anthology
of African American Literature. (Sa 2 p.m. McGuffey)
Mary B. McKinley is professor of French and chair of the French Department
at the University of Virginia. She is the author of two books on Montaigne
and is currently writing a book on the French mystical poet and storyteller
Marguerite de Navarre (1492- 1549). Alderman Library's Gordon Collection
plays an important role in her teaching and research. (Th 4 p.m. Alderman)
Patricia McNees, a former editor at Harper & Row, has also edited
three short story anthologies and written for publications ranging from
New York magazine to the Washington Post. As an active member
of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, she has been at the
forefront of the society's efforts to retain electronic rights to authors'
work. (F 10 a.m. Central)
Charles McRaven has many years of experience building and restoring
historic hewn log houses, and post-&-beam and stone structures, and
has earned recognition as the leading authority in the fields. He is a regular
writer for Country Journal and Fine Homebuilding. His books
include Building and Restoring the Hewn Log House, and Building
with Stone. (Sa 2 p.m. New Dominion)
Judy Mandell is a longtime free-lance writer, whose latest books
include the Writer's Guide to Magazine Editors and Publishers, and
Book Editors Talk to Writers. She is currently working on a health
book for Dell Publishing. Judy lives with her family in North Garden, Va.
(Sa 4 p.m. City Council)
Pamela Marcantel, born in Louisiana, began to write short stories
and poetry as an adolescent, and wrote her first novel while still an undergraduate.
But without professional support, she was unable to see any of her work
published, and for the next twenty years she gave up writing altogether.
An Army of Angels, which evolved in 1992 out of a particularly stressful
job, marks her return to writing. She is currently hard at work on her next
novel, about the First Crusade. (F 3 p.m. Quest)
Stephen Margulies is a curator at the Bayly Art Museum of the University
of Virginia. He is a published poet, art and literary critic, and essayist.
He is also a performance artist, having incorporated art, the spoken word,
and music into performances with John D'earth and other jazz groups. (F
10 p.m. Miller's)
Charlotte Matthews joined the Tandem Friends faculty in 1994 as an
English teacher. Her professional accomplishments include a writing fellowship
from Brown University and readings at Second Street Gallery and Williams
Corner Bookstore. Her work has been published in various literary journals.
She has a B.A. in English and religion from the University of Virginia and
an M.F.A. in poetry from Warren Wilson College. (F 7:30 p.m. Tandem Friends)
David A. Maurer worked as a commercial hard-hat diver, and soldier
with U.S. Army Special Forces before becoming a journalist. He served three
combat tours in Vietnam and was awarded the Purple Heart, two Bronze Stars,
and the Army Commendation for Valor. He is the author of Dying Place
(Dell, 1986), widely considered the most accurate account of Special Operations
in Vietnam. Maurer is presently a senior feature writer with the Daily
Progress, and has won numerous awards for reporting including several
from the Virginia Press Association. (Sa 10 a.m. Central)
Jane Mead grew up in Cambridge, Mass., Tesuque, N.M., Napa. Calif.,
and London, England. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry,
1990, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, the New York Times and many
others. Her book, The Lord and the General Din of the World, won the 1995
Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. (Sa 4 p.m. Central)
Brock Meeks (Su 4 p.m. Rotunda)
William D. Middleton is a 1950 graduate in civil engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has spent his career in engineering
and facilities management work. He has also been active for almost fifty
years as a journalist and historian, writing largely on rail transportation
and engineering history topics. His published work includes fourteen books
and almost five hundred articles. The most recent of his books is Manhattan
Gateway, a history of New York's Pennsylvania Station published in 1996.
(Su 3 p.m. City Council)
Jon D. Mikalson, Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia,
focuses his research on Greek religious beliefs as illustrated in literature,
history, and everyday life. He is the author of The Sacred and Civil
Calendar of the Athenian Year, Athenian Popular Religion, and others.
He has studied in Athens, Greece, and delivered the prestigious James Loeb
Classical Lecture at Harvard in 1987. (Sa 3 p.m. Rotunda)
Brad Mittendorf,
co-editor of the Oxford Book of the American South (Sa 12 p.m. UVa
Bookstore)
Paulette Molin, of the White Earth Chippewa, is a member of the Wordcraft
Circle of Native American Writers & Storytellers. (Sa 10 a.m. City Council)
Tom Morgan is the program director for WTJU-FM, where he hosts and
produces two shows, "The Bartender's Bop" and "The Jazz Roots
Show." His first book, From Cakewalks to Concert Halls, was
awarded second place in the Ralph Gleason Music Book Awards for the best
music books published in 1992. He recently was an associate editor and major
contributor for the African American Culture volume of the Dictionary
of Twentieth Century Culture. (Th 4 p.m. McGuffey)
Scott Moyers is an editor for Scribners in New York City. (Sa 11:30
a.m. Village)
Claire Newman-Williams is a cellist and has performed with poet and
professional actor Lisa Newman-Williams at Eastern Standard, Kafkafe, and
in "Off the Mall." (F 9:30 p.m. Live Arts)
Lisa Newman-Williams is a poet and professional actor who has performed
her poetry with cellist Claire Newman-Williams at Eastern Standard, Kafkafe,
and in "Off the Mall." (F 9:30 p.m. Live Arts)
Stephen Oates (Th 8 p.m. UVa Bookstore; F 10:30 a.m. City Council)
Kevin O'Brien, third-grade teacher, began working at the Crossroads
Waldorf School in the Aftercare Program in 1993. He became the PE and woodworking
teacher at Crossroads Waldorf in 1994. He has a B.A. in history from the
University of Virginia and is currently enrolled in the three-year teacher
training program at Sunbridge College. (F 2:30 p.m. McGuffey)
Robert O'Connell has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia.
He has published three books Of Arms and Men (1989), Sacred Vessels:
the Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy (1991), and
Ride of the Second Horseman: The Birth and Death of War (1995), all
with Oxford University Press. He is presently working on a novel based on
the life of Eddie Rickenbacker. O'Connell is employed as a military intelligence
analyst at the National Ground Intelligence Center in Charlottesville. (Sa
10 a.m. Central)
Sharon Olds teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New
York University. Her books include The Father, which was short-listed
for the T. S. Eliot Award in England and The Dead and the Living,
which was chosen as the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American
Poets and received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her fifth collection,
The Wellspring, was published by Knopf in January 1996. (Th 3 p.m.
UVa Bookstore)
Robert M. O'Neil is the founding director of the Thomas Jefferson
Center for the Protection of Free Expression, before which he served for
five years as president of the University of Virginia. His publications
include Free Speech: Responsible Communication Under the Law and
Classrooms in the Crossfire. (Su 3 p.m. Rotunda)
Gregory Orr won the 1984 Virginia Prize for Poetry for We Must
Make a Kingdom of It. He has held several distinguished fellowships
from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright program and the National Endowment
for the Arts. He is now professor of English at the University of Virginia
and poetry consultant for the Virginia Quarterly Review. He is the
author of four other books of poetry and of Stanley Kunitz; An Introduction
to the Poetry. (Th 10 p.m. Miller's; F 3 p.m. Central)
Charles Ossola (F 10 a.m. Central)
Vivian Owens wrote the book Nadanda, the Wordmaker, which
received a 1994 Writer's Digest Children's Book Award. Her parent-helper
books, Parenting for Education and Create A Math Environment,
have been selected as "Resources of Education," and her latest
children's book, The Rosebush Witch, made its debut in 1996. (Su
3 p.m. McGuffey)
Barbara Parker put aside her law practice to become a best- selling
novelist. Her first novel, Suspicion of Innocence, was a finalist
for the 1995 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and her second novel, Suspicion
of Guilt, was praised as a "breathlessly paced legal thriller with
a powerful punch" (Publishers Weekly). With best-selling novel, Blood
Relations (1996), she made the risky move of retiring the heroine of her
first two novels in favor of a brand-new male protagonist. Parker's most
recent thriller is Crimminal Justice. (Th 2:30 p.m. City Council)
Sheldon Parker is a partner in the law firm of Parker & DeStefano
in Charlottesville. He specializes in copyright, patent and trademark preparation,
prosecution, licensing and litigation. He is the author of "The Copyright
Act: It Transforms Your Assistant Into a Partner" (Charlottesville
Business Journal, November 1995). (Su 1:30 p.m. Village)
Jewell-Ann Parton is a professor of English at Piedmont Virginia
Community College, where she teaches freshman composition, women in literature,
honors American Literature, and creative writing. She is a published poet,
who has been active for many years in college and community theater as both
producer and actor. (F 1:30 p.m. PVCC)
Drake Patten (Su 3 p.m. Village)
Dinah Pehrson is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts
(NYC) and has trained with Edward Gero of the Shakespeare Theatre (Washington,
D.C.). Past roles include Rita in A Girls Guide to Chaos, and Lady
Fidget in The Country Wife, (both at Live Arts), Ella in Chris Whites'
Rhythms (Ki Theatre and Horizons Theatre), and Joyce in Joe Orton's
The Ruffian on the Stair (off-off-Broadway), and numerous others.
(Th-Sa 8 p.m. Live Arts)
John O. Peters, a former lawyer and a graduate of the University
of Virginia School of Law, is currently a free-lance writer and photographer.
He acted as the executive director of the Bar Association of the City of
Richmond from '88 to'96 and has served on the Richmond City Planning Commission.
Peters has been a member of the Board of Directors of the John Marshall
Foundation since 1994. (Th 4 p.m. City Council)
Margaret T. Peters, a graduate of Vassar College, is the preservation
program manager at the Department of Historic Resources and historian for
the newly created Capital Region Preservation Office. She has edited and
written a number of publications dealing with architectural history, including
A Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers and Virginia's Historic
Courthouses. John and Margaret Peters have been married since 1960.
(Th 4 p.m. City Council)
Sarah Pishko is the owner of Prince Books, which opened its doors
in 1982 in Norfolk, Va. Pishko lives in Norfolk with her family. (Sa 3 p.m.
Omni)
Browning Porter is a cofounder of the Charlottesville Writing Center.
He has published poems in journals and anthologies including, New England
Review, Poetry East, and Night Out and he has work forthcoming
in Agni, Calliope, and Negative Capability. (F 9:30 p.m. Live
Arts; Sa 4 p.m. Central)
William Prochnau is the author of Once Upon a Distant War, a narrative history of the first war correspondents in Vietnam, which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is a longtime newspaper reporter and has been a political operative and consultant. (Sa 11:30 a.m. Central)
Deborah M. Prum is the author of a soon-to-be published humorous
children's book on the Renaissance. She has worked as a health columnist
for a teen magazine and as associate editor of a medical quarterly. Her
short fiction has appeared in magazines and a literary anthology. (Th 1
p.m. Northside)
William Rassmussen is the Virginus C. Hall Curator of Art at the
Virginia Historical Society. He has also worked as an assistant curator
of American art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and as a professor at
Washington & Lee University and Virginia Commonwealth University. He
is the author of numerous articles and the book Pocahontas: Her Life
and Legend. (F 9:30 a.m. City Council)
Kristen Staby Rembold has published a chapbook of poetry, Coming
Into This World (Hot Pepper Press, 1992), and a novel, Felicity
(Mid-List Press, 1994). Her work has appeared in numerous magazines. A member
of the Apple Mountain Poets, she lives in Charlottesville. (Th 4 p.m. Central)
John Reummler has worked for the past several years as a full- time
editor with a publishing company. His six published works of fiction have
sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide, and include Mirkwood and
Middle Earth Roleplaying, an adventure-game rule book which brings
to life J. R. R. Tolkien's world of The Hobbit, and The Lord of
the Rings. Reummler's comic novel Hitler Does Hollywood won the
Eaton Literary Award in 1988. He has also won prizes for his poetry and
short fiction. (Th 1:30 p.m. Greenbrier)
Frank Riccio is accomplished in the fine artist as well as a successful
illustrator, storyteller and juggler. His illustrations have been in the
Society of Illustrators', Illustrators Annual, and others. He has
also illustrated national advertising campaigns, and his art is a regular
feature in Gourmet magazine. (Su 2 p.m. Discovery Museum)
Thomas E. Ricks has been the Pentagon correspondent for the Wall
Street Journal since 1992 and has covered U.S. military activities in
Somalia, the Adriatic, Korea, and Haiti. Ricks is a member of the Society
for Military History and the Inter- University Seminar on Armed Forces and
Society. Born in Massachusetts, Rick's graduated from Yale University in
1977. (Sa 11:30 a.m. Village)
Alexandra Ripley was born and grew up in Charleston, S.C. After living
in Washington, New York, and Italy, she returned to the South and Charlottesville,
where she began writing historical novels about the South. Charleston
was published in 1981; followed by Scarlett, the sequel to Gone
With the Wind. Ripley recently completed a novel about Joseph of Arimethea.
(Th 1 p.m. City Council)
James I. Robertson, Jr., was a Pulitzer Prize nominee for Soldiers
Blue and Gray, which was also a Book-of-the-Month-Club alternate selection.
His most recent book is Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the
Legend. He is presently Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech
and teaches the largest class in Civil War history in the United States.
Robertson appears regularly in Civil War programs on the Arts & Entertainment
Network, the History Channel, and Public Television and also does a weekly
Civil War program for Roanoke Public Radio. He is a native of Danville,
Va. (Th 8 p.m. UVa Bookstore)
Jeff Romano is a guitarist in the musical group the Treefrogs, which
features his original guitar work. (F 9:30 p.m. Live Arts)
Jane Rosenman has been executive editor at Scribner since October
1994. Prior to that, she worked as Editorial Director of Washington Square
Press, as well as being an editor at both the Delacorte Press and E. P.
Dutton. Among the writers she has edited have been novelists Andrea Barrett,
Carolyn Heilbrun (Amanda Cross), Terry Kay, Elinor Lipman, and Kem Nunn.
At Washington Square Press she reprinted the writings of Pam Houston, Steve
McCauley, Terry McMillan, Larry Watson, and Banana Yoshimoto. (Sa 1 p.m.
City Council & 4 p.m. Village)
Stevie Jay (Savitt) is an artist whose output includes poetry, music,
photography, graphic art, massage therapy and performance. His one-man show
"Life, Love, Sex, Death, and Other Works in Progress" will premier
at Live Arts in the spring. (Th 10 p.m. Miller's)
Elizabeth Scarlett (Su 4:30 p.m. City Council)
Doug Schneider was last seen on the Live Art's stage as Albin, the
wildly eccentric and lovable female impersonator in last summer's smash-hit
musical, La Cage aux Folles. An accomplished musician, he was also
musical director for the LATE productions of Three Penny Opera, Chicago
and La Cage. Doug was trained as an actor in Los Angeles and is also
a singer/songwriter. (Th-Sa 8 p.m. Live Arts)
Nancy Schoenberger is assistant professor in the English Department
at the College of William and Mary. She received the Devin Award in 1987
for the publication of the book of poetry Girl on a White Porch,
as well as numerous other awards. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Louisiana
State University and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. (F 3 p.m. Central)
Robert Schultz has published poetry, criticism, essays, short fiction,
and a novel, The Madhouse Nudes. In 1988, he received the Emily Clark
Balch Prize for Poetry from the Virginia Quarterly Review and was
a resident scholar at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities from '92
to '94. A former professor of writing at the University of Virginia, Schultz
now teaches at Luther College (Decorah, Iowa), his undergraduate alma mater.
(Sa 1 p.m. City Council; Su 3 p.m. Barnes & Noble)
James Scott (Loud Poet) has been doing poetry and storytelling programs
since 1982. He call himself "The LOUD Poetry Guy" because of the
energetic and humorous way in which he presents his material. His performance
career started in the sixties, and included twenty-two years as a stand-up
comic. His first book of children's poems, LOUDER!!! The Official James
Scott LOUD Poetry Reading Book and audiotape were released in December
of 1994. (Tu 7 p.m. Stone Robinson; Su 3 p.m. Amphitheater)
Eric Seaborg has coauthored two books with his wife, Ellen Dudley:
Hiking and Backpacking and American Discoveries, which won
the Barbara Savage "Miles From Nowhere" Award. He is currently
co-authoring the autobiography of his Nobel Laureate father. (Su 4:30 p.m.
City Council)
Alexandria Searls is a local photographer who has spent seven years
capturing books on film. Her most recent exhibit "Images of the Book:
Photographs of Jefferson's Bibles and of the Books of Other Virginians,"
includes handwritten diaries, Braille books, and a turn-of-the-century botany
collection. (related McGuffey)
Mary Lee Settle won a 1994 award in literature from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters. She has authored nearly a dozen novels, including
The Kiss of Kin, The Clam Shell, Cage of Bone, and
Blood Tie, which won the National Book Award in 1978. Her book, Choices,
was awarded the 1995 Lillian P. Smith Award for fiction. Settle has most
recently completed Addie, under contract with Nan A. Talese. She
lives and writes in Charlottesville. (Sa 12 p.m. UVa Bookstores)
Donald Shaw, a native of England, is the Brown-Forman Professor of
Spanish-American Literature at the University of Virginia and has written
extensively on modern Spanish literature and contemporary Spanish-American
poetry and prose. His publications include: A Literary History of Spain:
The Nineteenth Century, and The Generation of 1898 in Spain.
Shaw has taught at numerous universities, including Trinity College, Dublin,
and Brown University. (Sa 3 p.m. Rotunda)
Jack Shoemaker, the cofounder and editor in chief of North Point
Press, has been heralded internationally for his achievements in the world
of publishing. Shoemaker has made great efforts as an editor to nurture
environmental writing and Buddhist literature, providing support early in
the careers of such writes as Robert Aitken, Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson,
and Gary Snyder. In his commitment to the idea of publishing an author's
entire body of work, he has cultivated relationships with some of the most
distinguished voices of our time, including Evan Connell, Guy Davenport,
MFK Fisher, and James Salter, as well as Berry and Snyder. Shoemaker is
currently the editor in chief of Counterpoint Press. (Sa 12 p.m. Omni)
Anita Shreve is the author of the acclaimed novels Resistance,
Eden Close, Strange Fits of Passion, and Where or When. Her award-winning
short stories and nonfiction have appeared in many publications, including
the New York Times Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire. Her
most recent book, The Weight of Water, was published in January by
Little Brown. (Sa 8 p.m. Culbreth)
Ashlin Smith (Su 3 p.m. Village)
R.C. "Bob" Smith is a former reporter, columnist, and editor
for newspapers in North Carolina and Virginia. Under the Harvard Nieman
Fellowship, he did research for his book They Closed Their Schools,
published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1965. Mr. Smith's
most recent book, A Case About Amy, was published in 1996 by Temple
University Press. (Th 2:30 p.m. McGuffey)
R. T. "Rod" Smith was on the English faculty at Auburn
University for nineteen years and served as coeditor of Southern Humanities
Review. He has received fellowships from the NEA, and in 1988, he received
the Alabama Governor's Award for Achievement by an Artist. His books include
Trespasser, and Hunter-Gatherer. He currently resides with
his family in Rockbridge County, Va., and edits Shenandoah for Washington
and Lee. (F 3 p.m. Central)
Lisa Russ Spaar's work has appeared in Poetry, the Virginia
Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and elsewhere.
She is the author of two chapbooks: Cellar and Blind Boy on Skates.
Her newest work is entitled Repunzel's Clock. She teaches creative
writing at the University of Virginia and administers the M.F.A. writing
program there. She is the recipient of a 1996 award from the Virginia Commission
for the Arts. (Th 10 p.m. Miller's)
Ross Spears is the producer, director, and writer of the film Tell
about the South. His other films include Agee, a feature film
that was nominated for an Academy Award in 1980. He also made The Electric
Valley and Long Shadows. His film To Render a Life was
nominated for Best Documentary of the Year in 1992 by the International
Documentary Association. (W 8 p.m. Vinegar Hill)
Hawes Spencer is cofounder and editor of Charlottesville's successful
alternative paper, the C-Ville Weekly. He is a Richmond native who
lives now in Charlottesville with his wife, Mary, and their newborn son,
Coleman. (Sa 4 p.m. City Council)
Lucia Stanton is senior research historian at the International Center
for Jefferson Studies, Monticello. She has lectured widely on Jefferson,
slavery, and Monticello's African-American community, and is the author
of Slavery at Monticello and the coeditor of Jefferson's Memorandum
Books, to be published later this year. (Th 8 p.m. First Baptist; Sa
10 a.m. Kenwood)
Susan Stein, curator of Monticello since 1986, is in charge of Jefferson's
world-famous house. She is the author of The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson
at Monticello, the catalog for the major exhibition commemorating Jefferson's
250th anniversary in 1993. Among her current research projects are investigations
of women and domestic life at Monticello. (Sa 10 a.m. Kenwood)
John Sullivan is an associate professor in the Department of English
at the University of Virginia. He holds a joint Ph.D. from Indiana University,
Bloomington, in American studies and communication studies. He coauthored
C-Span Revolution (University of Oklahoma Press). Sullivan's next
work, on the depiction of politics in American art is in the formative stage.
(Sa 3 p.m. UVa Bookstore)
Elizabeth Sutton is the author of A Pony for Keeps, and Racing
for Keeneland. She teaches a workshop for writers of children's literature
through the University of Virginia School of Continuing Education. (Th 8:45
a.m, & 9:30 a.m. Venable)
Gay Talese first entered journalism as a copyboy at the New York
Times but was promoted to reporter in just two years. As a pioneer of
the New Journalism, Gay Talese was one of the first writers to apply the
techniques of fiction to nonfiction. Talese used this blended method of
nonfiction to write articles for numerous magazines and newspapers. Now
considered classics of the genre, Talese's Esquire articles probed
the private lives of celebrities such as Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, and
Floyd Patterson. He has also written numerous books of nonfiction, including
The Overreachers, Fame and Obscurity, Honor Thy Father,
and Thy Neighbor's Wife. Gay Talese is a winner of the 1967 Best
Sports Stories Award Magazine Story and the 1970 Christopher Book Award.
(F 8 p.m. Culbreth; Sa 2 p.m. Rotunda)
Nan Talese is a senior vice president of Doubleday and president,
publisher, and editorial director of Nan A. Talese books at that company.
She is the publisher of Pat Conroy, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan; and of
Booker Prize winners Thomas Keneally, Barry Unsworth and Ben Okri, among
others. She has commissioned and published numerous books that have become
feature films, including Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally and
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. Before joining Doubleday, Talese was
publisher and editor in chief of Houghton Mifflin's adult trade division,
and prior to that, a senior editor at Simon & Schuster and at Random
House. (Sa 1 p.m. & 2:30 p.m. City Council)
L. B. Taylor, Jr., is a native Virginian and wrote about America's
space programs for sixteen years, for NASA and aerospace contractors. Taylor
is the author of more than three hundred national magazine articles and
thirty nonfiction books. His research for the book Haunted Houses,
published by Simon & Schuster in 1983, stimulated his interest in area
psychic phenomena and led to the publication of five regional Virginia ghost
books preceding The Ghosts of Virginia. (Th 9 a.m. & 1 p.m.,
Walker)
Phyllis Theroux has written extensively for the New York Times
and the Washington Post as a columnist, feature writer, book reviewer,
and editorial contributor. Her books include California and Other States
of Grace, and Night Lights: Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark.
She has established a black and white women's group in Ashland, Va., and
is working to establish an interracial roundtable at the grass-roots educational
level in Washington, D.C. Theroux is currently working on The Book of
Eulogies, parts of which have been adapted into a dramatic performance
at Western Albemarle High School for Festival '97. (F 10:30 a.m. & 8
p.m. WAHS)
Thomas Jefferson Adult Healthcare Center will conduct a workshop
with the following participants: Ethel Webber, age eighty, is from Connecticut,
where she and her husband ran a very successful dry-cleaning business. She
also lived in North Carolina and spent eight years in Israel. She has four
children and seven grandchildren. Sylvia Trefil, age eighty-nine, is from
Chicago. She is a retired social worker who has two sons and two grandchildren.
Betty Jones, age seventy-two, is from Washington, D.C. but grew up in Stanardsville.
She worked at UVa. Hospital for forty-two years. She has six children and
seven grandchildren. William Carr, age seventy-two, is from Charlottesville.
He worked as a chef at the Hilton in Washington, D.C., and spent several
years overseas during the war. Verna Chambers, age sixty-four, is from Buckingham.
She has eight children, twelve grandchildren, and two great- grandchildren.
Alfonso Green, age eighty-three, is from Charlottesville. He worked as a
chef, among other jobs. He has two children and numerous grandchildren.
(Th 10 a.m. TJAHC)
Frank Thomasson (Su 2:30 p.m. Central)
Dawn Thompson is the lead vocalist for the John D'earth Sextet. (Th
10 p.m. Miller's)
John Thompson is the author of National Geographics Florida
and the Southeast, a driving guide due out this spring. He has written
for several other National Geographic and Michelin books,
and contributed articles to Islands, the Washington Post,
National Geographic Traveler, and other publications. He lives in
Charlottesville with his wife and two children. (Su 4:30 p.m. City Council)
Michael Thompson (F 10 a.m. New Dominion)
Tom Tiede is the owner of the Book Cellar in Charlottesville. He
is a former syndicated columnist, a longtime war correspondent and the author
of several books. (Sa 11:30 a.m. Central)
Katherine Troyer has published popular science writing in C-Ville
Review/Weekly since 1991. A biologist and Ph.D., she is currently working
on a collection of "Joie de Vivre" essays. Troyer teaches human
anatomy and physiology at Piedmont Virginia Community College and life sciences
for seventh graders at Tandem Friends School. (Sa 10 a.m. Papercraft)
Terry Turner is a professor at the University of Virginia. A veteran
of Vietnam, he is the author of a book about the war. (Sa 11:30 a.m. Central)
Vernon Kitabu Turner discovered poetry for self-expression and martial
arts for self-defense as a young man. However, it was being initiated by
Zen master Nomura-Roshi in 1967 that changed his writing and made him a
true "Bushido" warrior. This led to the 1975 publication of his
collection of poetry, Kung Fu: The Master. Over the next twenty years,
he continued to develop his writing both as a journalist and a poet, publishing
articles in national publications and an allegorical novel, The Secret
of Freedom. (F 3:30 p.m. City Council)
Beverly Van Hook was an award-winning newspaper and magazine writer
before beginning the "Supergranny" series. She is a member of
Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and the Virginia Writers Club,
and has received numerous awards, including the Cornelia Meigs Award for
Children's Literature and the Isabel Bloom Award for the Arts. She and her
husband, Don, are the parents of three adult children and live in Charlottesville,
Va. with Shackleford, the bashful old English sheepdog in the "Supergranny"
series. (Th 1 p.m. Northside; F 9 a.m. Cale)
Reetika Vazirani was selected by Marilyn Hacker as winner of the
1995 Barnard New Women Poets Prize. Born in India and raised in Maryland,
she is a graduate of Wellesley College. Her poems have been widely published
in journals, including Agni, Antioch, and Kenyon Review.
Her work was just recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. (F 3 p.m.; Sa
4 p.m. Central)
Maryanne Vollers is an author and free-lance journalist based in
Charlottesville, Va. She has written for Time, Esquire, Rolling Stone,
and other national magazines on topics such as the Oklahoma City bombing,
environmental racism, the rise of right- wing militias, and return of wolves
to Yellowstone. Her recent book, Ghosts of Mississippi, about the
murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, was a National Book Award finalist.
Her husband is Time photographer William Campbell. (Su 4 p.m. Central)
Steve Watkins is an associate professor of English at Mary Washington
College in Fredericksburg, Va., where he lives with his wife, Laurie, and
two daughters. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including
the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Mississippi Review, and The Nation.
His nonfiction book, The Black O: Racism and Redemption in an American
Corporate Empire, is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press.
(F 4:30 p.m. Central)
Donovan Webster is the author of Aftermath: the Remnants of War,
published by Pantheon in 1996. He is a former senior editor of Outside,
and has written for The New Yorker, National Geographic, and the
Smithsonian. He lives in Ivy, Va. (Sa 10 a.m. Central; 4 p.m. City
Council)
John Wells is an architectural historian in the project review division
of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. He and Robert E. Dalton
are the authors of Carolina Architects, 1885 - 1935: A Biographical Dictionary
(New South Architectural Press, 1992) and forthcoming volumes on the architects
of Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. (Th 4 p.m. City Council)
Charles White wrote the 1990 book The Hidden And Forgotten: Buckingham
County (Walsworth Press) which dealt with African Americans in Buckingham
County. For the past ten years, he has been publishing the Informant,
a local African-American newspaper that covers four counties in southern
Virginia. A supporter of family history research, White has documents that
trace his own family genealogy back to a slave born in the year 1780. (Su
1 p.m. McGuffey)
Louisa Tyson Whitman, graduate of Princeton University with a B.A.
in English, has served as editorial assistant at William Morrow and Scribner/Simon
& Schuster. Whitman has worked as an intern at the Baltimore Sun
and is currently a marketing assistant at University Press of Virginia.
(Sa 11 a.m. University Press)
Patricia Whitton is the founder, editor, and publisher of New Plays
Inc. in Charlottesville. A publishing house specializing in plays for young
audiences and books for teachers using the arts in education, New Plays
Inc. currently represents over forty writers, offering some seventy-five
titles. She is the author of numerous books and plays, including the play
WYZIWYG (1995). (Sa 2:30 p.m. Central)
Henry Wiencek was editor for the twelve-volume Smithsonian Guide
to Historic America and has written three books about historic architecture.
He is finishing a book on the legacy of slavery - a narrative history of
the Hairston families, black and white, tracing them from slavery times
until today. He lives in Charlottesville with his wife, writer Donnay Lucey,
and their son. (F 10 a.m. Central)
Roger Wilkins is Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History and American
Culture at George Mason University. A Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist
and former Assistant Attorney General of the United States, he is a well-known
columnist and writer.
(Th 8 p.m. First Baptist)
Greg Williamson grew up in Nashville, Tenn., and currently lectures
in the writing seminars at Johns Hopkins University. His poems have appeared
in many journals, including Poetry, the New Republic, and
the Paris Review. His book The Silent Partner was published
by Story Line Press and won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. (Sa 4 p.m.
Central)
Douglas Wilson is director of the International Center for Jefferson
Studies at Monticello and is in charge of research publications. He is editor
of Jefferson's Literacy Commonplace Book and author of Jefferson's
Books. Among his current projects is a new edition of Jefferson's
Notes on the State of Virginia. (Sa 10 a.m. Kenwood).
Greer Dawson Wilson is the president and chief executive officer
of Greer and Company, a firm that focuses on diversity and human- relations
training. She has degrees from the College of William and Mary, Indiana
University, and Hampton University. She has received numerous awards for
her work promoting diversity and multicultural issues. (Th 4 p.m. Village)
Charles Wright won the National Book Award in 1983 for his Country
Music: Selected Early Poems. He received the PEN Translation Prize for
his translation of Montale's The Storm and Other Things. He has taught
at the University of California- Irvine, the University of Iowa, Columbia
University, and Princeton University. He is the Souder Family Professor
at the University of Virginia. His most recent book, Black Zodiac,
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux), is due out in April 1997. (Th 8 p.m. Culbreth)
Andrew Wyndam, a native of England and of Polish-Irish descent, is
associate director of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, where
he coordinates the VFH Center for Media & Culture and the Southern Humanities
Media Fund. He recently planned and directed the international conference
and festival, "Irish Film: A Mirror up to Culture," in May 1996,
which featured over forty Irish filmmakers, writers, and scholars. (Sa 10
a.m. Village)
Nura Yingling joined Tandem's teaching staff in the fall of 1989,
after living in Montana for ten years. She currently teaches 5th- and 6th-grade
art and drama and English. Yingling is the community service director at
Tandem. She served as the administrator of the year-long Project Teamwork
Grant from Bard College's Writing and Thinking Institute. She has also received
a grant from the Virginia Writers' Project. (F 7:30 p.m. Tandem Friends)
Charlie Young has worked as a publisher's sales representative for
the last fifteen years, following five years in retail bookstore management.
Young has a degree in English Literature from George Mason University. He
spent five years covering the metro New York area for Putnam Publishing,
and has spent the last ten years specializing in selling children's books
in the mid- Atlantic states for Random House and now Simon & Schuster.
(Sa 1:30 p.m. Omni)
Boyd Zenner, who obtained a B.A. with honors and with distinction
in English and Creative Writing from Sweet Briar College, has eight years
of experience with editing. She currently is acquisitions editor at the
University Press of Virginia. (Sa 11 a.m. University Press)