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SCHEDULE SUBJECT to CHANGE, CHECK WEBSITE for DETAILS Author Information for Book Groups: Summer 2019 Author Information for Book Groups: Summer 2019 20th Annual Chippewa Valley Book Festival: October 21-27, 2019 KELLY JENSEN Don’t Call Me Crazy: Navigating Mental Health with Compassion, Understanding, and Honesty PLEASE NOTE pre-Festival DATE: Thursday, October 17 | 5:00 p.m. Scholfield Hall | UW–Eau Claire | 105 Garfield Ave., Eau Claire, WI 54701 This event is co-sponsored by the Katherine S. Schneider Disability Issues Forum and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Foundation. Captioning and sign language interpreting will be provided by the L. E. Phillips Family Foundation. Sally Webb has provided additional support. Featured book: (Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health Program This is the annual Katherine S. Schneider Disability Issues Forum While roughly twenty percent of Americans live with a mental illness, more than half of those who suffer have gone untreated for the past year. Kelly Jensen, author of (Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health, will talk about her own experiences with depression and anxiety, where and how she decided to get help for myself when she turned 30. Using what she learned from her own experiences, Jensen will discuss where and how to talk about mental health, as well as tools and resources for cracking open those discussions. Author Kelly Jensen is a former teen librarian who worked in several public libraries before pursuing a full-time career in writing and editing. Her current position is with Book Riot, where she focuses on talking about young adult literature in all of its manifestations. Her books include Here We Are: Feminism for The Real World and (Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health, a collection of art, essays, and words to launch a powerful and important conversation about mental health. It was named a best book of 2018 by the Washington Post and earned a Schneider Family Book Award Honor. Online: https://twloha.com/podcast/7-kelly-jensen/ FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT www.cvbookfest.org SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, CHECK WEBSITE FOR DETAILS Author Information for Book Groups: Summer 2019 20th Annual Chippewa Valley Book Festival: October 21-27, 2019 ANNA LEE HUBER Mrs. Bond: The True Role of Female Spies During the First World War Monday, October 21 | 7:00 p.m. Altoona Public Library 1303 Lynn Ave., Altoona, WI 54720 Co-sponsored by the Altoona Public Library. Featured book: Treacherous Is the Night Program When someone mentions female spies, especially during the era of World War I, often the only names they can recall are either the notorious femme fatale, Mata Hari, or the saintly nurse, Edith Cavell. How- ever, the real role of women in espionage was far more varied and prevalent. These real unsung heroes of the Great War formed the basis for Anna Lee Huber’s fictional heroine—Verity Kent—and parts of their tales and exploits have found their way onto the page in her adventures. Huber will explore the fact and fiction behind these female secret agents, the spy rings with which they worked behind enemy lines, and examine their lives after the guns fell silent. Author Anna Lee Huber, winner of the 2018 Daphne du Maurier Award, is author of the national best-selling Lady Darby Mysteries, the Verity Kent Mysteries, and the Gothic Myths series, as well as the forthcoming anthology, The Deadly Hours. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in music and minored in psychology. Online: annaleehuber.com FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT www.cvbookfest.org SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, CHECK WEBSITE FOR DETAILS Author Information for Book Groups: Summer 2019 20th Annual Chippewa Valley Book Festival: October 21-27, 2019 NEEL PATEL Making the Unseen, Seen: Giving Voice to Diverse Characters in Fiction and Beyond Monday, October 21 | 6:30 p.m. Memorial Student Center Ballroom | University of Wisconsin–Stout 302 10th Ave. East Menomonie, WI 54751 Co-sponsored by the Altoona Public Library. Co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin–Stout Featured book: If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi Program This program will discuss the importance, in fiction, of turning peripheral characters into primary ones, both its challenges and delights. Gain a better understanding of the impact literature, television, and film have on shaping the identities of people from different walks of life. Author Neel Patel is an author and screenwriter who grew up in Champaign, Illinois. His writing has appeared in ELLE India, on Buzzfeed, and other publications. His first book, If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick and an NPR Best Book of 2018. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is developing a television series and writing a novel. Online: neelnpatel.com FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT www.cvbookfest.org SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, CHECK WEBSITE FOR DETAILS Author Information for Book Groups: Summer 2019 20th Annual Chippewa Valley Book Festival: October 21-27, 2019 CAROLYN PORTER A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate Please note Ms. Porter has two events: Tuesday, October 22 | 7 p.m. Fall Creek Public Library | 122 E Lincoln Ave, Fall Creek, WI 54742 Co-sponsored by: Fall Creek Public Library Wednesday, October 23 | 10:30 a.m. Menomonie Public Library | 600 Wolske Bay Rd., Menomonie, WI 54751 Co-sponsored by: Menomonie Public Library Featured book: Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate Program During the depths of World War II, Frenchman Marcel Heuzé mailed letters to his wife and three young daughters from a labor camp in Berlin. His handwritten letters home carried tender words of love along with testimony about day-to-day survival inside a labor camp. More than half a century later, type designer Carolyn Porter found a bundle of his letters in an antique shop. As Porter began to transform the beautiful, looping cursive into a modern computer font, she became obsessed with finding answers to her questions: Who was Marcel? Why were his precious letters for sale halfway around the world? And most importantly: Did Marcel survive? Discover what goes into the design of a font, learn about a little-known aspect of WWII—the forced labor of ordinary French civilians—and be inspired to pursue your own passion projects. Author Carolyn Porter is an award-winning graphic designer and type designer based in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. She graduated with a BA in Graphic Design from University of Wisconsin–Stout, which is where she was exposed to typography and the design of letterforms. Her first font, P22 Marcel Script, has garnered four international honors, including the prestigious Certificate for Typographic Excellence from the New York Type Director’s Club. Her nonfiction book, Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, a Paris Book Festival winner, and a gold medal winner, Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Military Writer’s Society of America. FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT Online: carolyn-porter.com www.cvbookfest.org SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, CHECK WEBSITE FOR DETAILS Author Information for Book Groups: Summer 2019 20th Annual Chippewa Valley Book Festival: October 21-27, 2019 JOHN HILDEBRAND Through the Heartland River Tuesday, October 22 | 7 p.m. Pablo Center at the Confluence Featured book: Long Way Round: Through the Heartland by River Program Inspired by a mythic Round River, John Hildebrand set off in a small boat to rediscover his home state of Wisconsin. The result was a journey through a forgotten America, a land of great physical beauty but struggling small towns and divided loyalties. From the hard-working Mississippi to the threatened wilderness of Tylers Fork, Hildebrand searches for the values that connect us—neighborliness, a sense of fairness, and a belief in the common good. The program will combine photographs, discussion, and short excerpts from the book as Hildebrand shares the sense of both wonder and belonging he dis- covered through his travels. Author John Hildebrand is the author of five nonfiction books: the award-winning Map- ping the Farm: The Chronicle of a Family, Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon, A Northern Front: New and Selected Essays and The Heart of Things: a Midwestern Almanac. His latest book, Long Way Round: Through the Heartland by River, will be released at the festival. His articles and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Audubon, Outside Magazine, Sports Illustrated, GEO, Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, and The Missouri Review. Since his retirement from the English Department, he occasionally teaches at the University of Wis- consin–Eau Claire. FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT www.cvbookfest.org SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, CHECK WEBSITE FOR DETAILS Author Information for Book Groups: Summer 2019 20th Annual Chippewa Valley Book Festival: October 21-27, 2019 ADAM REGN ARVIDSON Wild and Rare Wednesday, October 23 | 12:00 p.m. Chippewa Valley Museum | 1204 E Half Moon Dr., Eau Claire, WI 54703 This event is co-sponsored by the Chippewa Valley Museum and will include a ticketed paid luncheon. Tickets will go on sale in late July. The presentation is free. See website for details. Featured book: Wild & Rare: Tracking Endangered Species in the Upper Midwest Program Adam Regn Arvidson takes a look, not only at the midwest plants and animals on the the endangered species list, but which ones we value, why we value them, and what we take into consideration moving forward. During this interactive discussion and reading about endangered plants and animals in the upper Midwest, you will learn which species are endangered, the history of their conservation and protection in this country, and what you can do to help these fellow inhabitants of our beautiful planet.
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