Books by the Banks 2018

BOOKS BY THE BANKS CINCINNATI REGIONAL Book Festival Saturday, October 20, 2018 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. DUKE ENERGY CONVENTION CENTER • DOWNTOWN CINCINNATI FREE ADMISSION www.booksbythebanks.org Art © Courttney Cooper 2018 Featured Authors Jason Reynolds is the New York Times best-selling author of All American Boys, Long Way Down, For Everyone, and Boy in the Black Suit. He found inspira tion in rap to begin writing poetry at nine years old. He focused on poetry for the next two decades, only reading Will Hillenbrand is a celebrated a novel cover to cover for the first time illustrator and author of over 65 books at age 17. In 2014, he published his for young readers. In addition to his first novel, When I Was The Greatest, self-illustrated titles, he has illustrated which won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for the works of writers and retellers New Talent. Ten more novels followed in the next four years, including Ghost and three including Verna Aardema, Judy Sierra, more books in the best-selling Track series (Patina, Sunny, and Lu), As Brave as You, Margery Cuyler, Judith St. George, and the Marvel Comics novel, Miles Morales: Spider-Man. Phyllis Root, Jane Yolen, Karma Wilson, Maureen Wright, Daniel Pinkwater, David Arnold is the Garber serves as contributing editor and Olivier Dunrea, Eve Bunting and Jane New York Times featured writer for Redleg Nation, where Hillenbrand. Will has lived most of his bestselling author of he has written about the Reds for more life in Cincinnati. Kids of Appetite, than a decade. Mosquitoland, and The Strange Fascina- Elizabeth W. Garber, tions of Noah daughter of Cincinnati Hypnotik, which has modernist Woodie been optioned for film Garber, is the author by Paramount. His books have been of Implosion: A translated into over a dozen languages. Memoir of an He lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his Architect’s Daughter, (lovely) wife and (boisterous) son. three books of poetry, and Maine, a For 22 years, Art- collaboration of her poetry and essays Works has been with paintings and photographs of transforming people Michael Weymouth. Three of her poems and places through have been read on NPR on The Writer’s investments in Almanac. Alice McDermott’s eighth novel, creativity. They’ve The Ninth Hour, was published to hired over 3,000 Grady Hendrix is a critical acclaim last year. Her local youth appren- novelist and screen- seventh novel, Someone, was a tices to create public works of art writer based in New New York Times bestseller, a finalist alongside talented professional artists. York City. His novels for the Dublin IMPAC Award, the Transforming Cincinnati captures more include Horrorstör, National Book Critics Circle Award, than 100 images of the urban murals named one of the and The Dayton Literary Peace that have transformed our city. best books of 2014 Prize. Three of her previous novels, by NPR, and My Best After This, At Weddings and Wakes Chad Dotson writes Friend’s Exorcism, for and That Night, were finalists for about the Reds for which the Wall Street the Pulitzer Prize. Charming Billy Cincinnati Magazine Journal dubbed him “a national treasure.” won the National Book Award for and about baseball in The Bram Stoker Award-winning Paper- fiction in 1998 and was a finalist general for ESPN.com. backs from Hell, his survey of outrageous for the Dublin IMPAC Award. Her He is also the founder horror novels of the 1970s and 80s, was stories, essays and reviews have and managing editor called “pure, demented delight” by the appeared in The New York Times, of Redleg Nation, a New York Times Book Review. He’s The Washington Post, The New popular site devoted to contributed to Playboy, The Village Voice, Yorker, Harpers, and Commonweal. baseball and the Cincinnati Reds. Chris and Variety. 2 • www.booksbythebanks.org *At the Festival for limited time. See Books by the Banks website for schedule. Wil Haygood is currently a Visiting Distinguished Professor in the department of media, journalism, and film at Miami University, Ohio. For nearly three decades he was a journalist, serving as a national and foreign correspondent at The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and then at The Washington Post. His books include: The Butler: A Witness to History, Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America, and Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson. Photo by Jeff Sabo Born and raised in The Requiem Rose, which was later book catalog, A Common Reader, and the Midwest, published as A White Wind Blew, a story was for two decades its guiding force. He Supriya Kelkar of redemption in a 1929 tuberculosis subsequently has worked as an editorial learned Hindi as a sanatorium. James is also a USPTA and product development executive in child by watching tennis pro and has coached dozens of the publishing industry. He lives with his three Hindi movies a kids who’ve gone on to play college wife, Margot, in Connecticut. week. Winner of the tennis in top conferences like the Big New Visions Award 10, the Big East, and the ACC. Hannah Pittard is for her middle grade the author of four novel Ahimsa, Bobbie Ann Mason novels, including Supriya is a screenwriter who has is best known for Listen to Me (a New worked on the writing teams for several Shiloh and Other York Times Editors’ Hindi films and one Bollywood feature. Stories and the Choice) and Visible novels In Country and Empire (a New York Adib Khorram is an The Girl in the Blue Times “New & author, a graphic Béret. Her many Noteworthy” selec- designer, and a tea awards include the tion). She is winner of enthusiast. If he’s not PEN/Hemingway the 2006 Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction writing (or at his day Award; the Arts and Award, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and a job), you can probably Letters Award for Literature from the professor of English at the University of find him trying to get American Academy of Arts and Letters; Kentucky, where she directs the MFA his 100 yard the Southern Book Critics Circle Award; program in creative writing. Freestyle under a and the Kentucky Book Award. Her minute, or learning to memoir, Clear Springs, was a finalist for Twice the winner of do a Lutz Jump. He lives in Kansas City, the Pulitzer Prize. the Robert F. Kennedy Missouri. Darius the Great is Not Okay is Journalism Award and his first novel. a Pulitzer Prize finalist, James Mustich Ted Rall is a political began his career in Loren Long is an cartoonist, opinion bookselling at an award-winning author columnist, graphic independent book and illustrator of the novelist, and store in Briarcliff New York Times occasional war Manor, New York, in bestselling Otis correspondent whose work has appeared the early 1980s. In picture books. He is in hundreds of publications, including the 1986, he co-found- also the illustrator of New York Times, Washington Post, Village ed the acclaimed Love by Matt de la Peña, Of Thee I Sing Voice, and Los Angeles Times. He is the by President Barack Obama, the re-illustrated edition of The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper, Mr. Peabody’s Hailed by P.D. James as “the most remarkable” of modern crime Apples by Madonna, and Good Day, Good writers, Sara Paretsky is the New York Times bestselling author Night by Margaret Wise Brown. Loren of twenty-one novels, including the lives in Cincinnati with his family. renowned V.I. Warshawski series. She is one of only four living writers—alongside James Markert John Le Carré, Sue Grafton, and lives with his wife Lawrence Block -- to have received both and two children in the Grand Master Award from the Louisville, Kentucky. Mystery Writers of America and the He has a history Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime degree from the Writers’ Association of Great Britain. She University of lives in Chicago with her husband. Louisville and won an IPPY Award for *At the Festival for limited time. See Books by the Banks website for schedule. www.booksbythebanks.org • 3 Sharon M. Draper is a professional educator, as well as an accomplished writer of over thirty award-winning books including Copper Sun, winner the Coretta Scott King Award, the highly acclaimed Jericho and Hazel- wood trilogies, and Out of my Mind. She served as the National Teacher of the Year, has been honored at the White House six times, and was selected by the U.S. State Department to be a literary ambassador to the children of Africa and China. In 2015 she was honored by the American Library Association as the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime literary achievement. illustrator of the full-length comic in Angeles Times Book Award. Her second where he keeps the newspaper archive Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to book, The Forgetting Tree, was a New and writes about Cincinnati history. Jeff Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps, written York Times Notable Book for 2012. Her also writes fiction and has had stories by Greg Palast. third novel, The Last Good Paradise, published by Pocket Books, Post was a Millions Most Anticipated Book for Mortem Press and DC Comics. He and Born in Puerto Rico 2015. Her work has been twice listed in his family live in White Oak. and based in the 100 Distinguished Stories in Best Columbus, Ohio, American Short Stories. Tui T. Sutherland is Rafael Rosado is a the author of the seasoned writer, Vesper Stamper is New York Times and director and story- an author/illustrator USA Today bestsell- board artist for living in the ing Wings of Fire Warner Brothers, Northeast with her series, the Menag- Disney, and Cartoon husband, filmmaker erie trilogy, and the Network.

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