A Programming Librarian’s Guide to Literature Programs & Author Events ALA 2010 Annual Conference
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While planning your schedule for ALA’s 2010 Annual Conference, do you look for new authors to bring in to your library? Are you hoping Is your conference schedule already packed to the brim? to learn about the latest and greatest in contemporary literature to Perhaps you need to take a break from programs and meetings, bring to your library’s reading and discussion groups? Do you find and let someone read to you for a change. Find time in your new films that will spark dialogue and bring the arts and humanities busy day to sit back and enjoy live readings from popular and alive in your library? If so, this guide is for you. We’ve compiled a full up-and-coming authors at the LIVE! @ your library Reading list of Annual Conference events that feature appearances by authors, Stage, presented by the ALA Public Programs Office. discussions of literature and poetry, and other resources to inspire cultural community programs in your library. Thanks to generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, this year’s LIVE! Stage will feature a special focus Find out who will be speaking at this year’s Auditorium Series on poetry. Readings from many established and emerging sponsored by ALA Conferences Services, reading on the LIVE! @ your poets will represent the range of poetry, from rhymes formed library Reading Stage in the exhibits hall, offering the keynote at PLA’s on the page, to the rhythms of the spoken work—poems that President’s Program (a hint: you might find this person puzzling), and are sensuous and sensory, witty and wicked, poems that come rising and shining at RUSA’s Literary Tastes Breakfast. alive when read by their creators. Don’t miss it! If that’s not enough, ALTAFF is offering events that will make you Most readings will be followed by an autograph session. See laugh, add some romance to your conference, introduce you to new the insert for a complete list of this year’s LIVE! Stage readers. authors, invite you to discuss politics, and even serve you tea. In addition, PLA will be exploring urban fiction and why you should add hip-hop literature to your library as well as demonstrating how you can incorporate Japanese paper theater into your storytimes. Programming librarians, don’t forget to check out events offered by
the Public Programs Office for inspiration and information. Once rneson A conference is over, be sure to visit www.ProgrammingLibrarian.org Karen Peter Johnson for more resources to help you develop and implement cultural Heid E. Erdrich Benjamin Alire Sáenz Henri Cole programming initiatives in your library.
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Poetry as a Community Builder: for traveling exhibitions and book and Bring the Universe to Your Library libraries of all types, sizes and budgets Expanding Community Outreach film discussion programs. Librarians with NASA produce successful programs without Through Poetry representing public, academic, commun- Sunday, June 27, 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. breaking the bank or burning out staff. Saturday, June 26, 8:00–10:00 a.m. ity college and high school libraries are Ren, Congressional Hall A/B Hear about the many resources the ALA invited to attend. Public Programs Office has to support WCC, 102A (see Locations KEY on page 18) The Space Telescope Science Institute your efforts. Presented by the ALA Make poetry accessible to your commu- Speakers: Thomas Phelps, Director, Divi- (STScI), a NASA affiliate, describes the Public and Cultural Programs Advisory nity. This program will discuss new ideas sion of Public Programs, NEH; Patti Van amazing array of online, print, and in- Committee. and best practices in poetry programs Tuyl, Senior Program Officer, We the People person cultural programs and resources Program, NEH; Susan Brandehoff, Director and outreach. available free to libraries about the Speakers: Terrilyn Chun, Systemwide of Program Development and Partnerships, Proramming Coordinator, Multnomah Speakers: Linda Holtslander, Assistant history, current research and projects of ALA Public Programs Office; Lainie Castle, County Library (Oregon); Nann Blaine Director, Loudoun County Public Library NASA and its affililiates. Scientists from Project Director, ALA Public Programs Office Hilyard, Director, Zion-Benton Public (Virginia); Kwame Alexander, Poet Mary the STScI and librarians will be featured Library (Illinois); Chapple Langemack, Davis Fournier, Deputy Director, ALA Public at this session. PRIME TIME Family Reading Time: Senior Managing Librarian, Bellevue Programs Office A Model Program for Strengthening Speakers: Susan Brandehoff, Director, Regional Library, King County Library Program Development and Partnerships, System (Washington); Jennifer Longee, New Grant Available: Louisa May Alcott Families & Building Communities ALA Public Programs Office; Jennifer Librarian, Durham Academy Middle School TV Special for Library Programs Sunday, June 27, 8:00–10:00 a.m. Dominiak, Program Officer, Exhibitions, (North Carolina) Saturday, June 26, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. WCC, 203 A/B ALA Public Programs Office; Denise Smith, Grand, Constitution C/D Engage diverse, underserved neighbo- Special Projects Manager, STScI; Frank Are you a Programming Librarian? Learn about a new grant from the rhoods of your community in PRIME TIME Summers, Astronomer, STScI Sunday, June 27, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Family Reading Time®, a family literacy National Endowment for the Humanities Programs That Pack the Place: A How-To WCC, 209 A/B (NEH) to ALA for library programs using program featuring humanities-focused for Libraries of All Shapes and Sizes Interested in creating and coordinating the documentary “Louisa May Alcott: content, quality children’s literature, Sunday, June 27, 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. programs for your community fueled by The Woman Behind Little Women,” techniques based on the Socratic Method, creativity, connections and shoe-string and discuss the “Soul of a People” and collective learning. A distinguished REN, Auditorium budgets? Attend this session to hear documentary and library programs. panel including representatives from ALA, Public programming delivers information from librarians like yourself, and discover Producers of both films will be present. NEH, and the Louisiana Endowment for and educational benefits, provides ProgrammingLibrarian.org, a new online Also featured: documentary websites and the Humanities will discuss this program’s opportunities for outreach and collabor- hub for resources and inspiration. Break- educational resources for libraries. history, philosophy, and methods, as well ation and enhances the library’s presence out sessions on grant writing, marketing as proven strategies for securing funds to and publicity, forging partnerships and Speakers: Nancy Porter and Harriet Reisen, in the community. Learn about new trends support this outreach model. beginning programming for students and Producers, “Louisa May Alcott”; Andrea and how to update current programs to new librarians. Kalin, Producer, “Soul of the People”; Speakers: Shantrell Adams, Assistant attract new or underserved audiences. Henry Fortunato, Kansas City Public Director, PRIME TIME Family Reading Experienced programmers will share how Library; Nora Quinlan, Nova University; Time®; Thomas Phelps, Director, Division Jude Schanzer, East Meadow Public Library of Public Programs, NEH; Lainie Castle, (New York); Susan Brandehoff, Director of Project Director, ALA Public Programs Program Development and Partnerships, Office; Pat Leach, Director, Lincoln City About the ALA Public Programs Office ALA Public Programs Office Libraries (Nebraska); Anne Haimes, Branch Group Manager, Atlanta-Fulton Public The ALA Public Programs Office promotes cultural and community programming NEH Sponsored Public Programs Library System; Rhonda Butler, Children’s as an essential part of library service in all types and sizes of libraries. Successful Saturday, June 26, 1:30–3:30 p.m. and Teen Services Coordinator, Public library programming initiatives have included Let’s Talk About It reading and discussion series, traveling exhibitions, film discussion programs, the Great Ren, Chinese BR Libraries of Saginaw (Michigan) Stories CLUB, LIVE! @ your library and NEH’s Picturing America initiative. Hear from NEH staff and the ALA Recently, the ALA Public Programs Office developed ProgrammingLibrarian.org, Public Programs Office about new an online resource center bringing librarians timely and valuable information grant opportunities, including support to support them in the creation of high-quality cultural programs for their communities. For more information on the ALA Public Programs Office, visit www.ala.org/publicprograms.
4 | A A Programming Programming Librarian’s Librarian’s Guide Guide to to Literature Literature Programs Programs & & Author Author Events Events ALA Annual Conference, Washington DC, June 24–29, 2010 | 5 Presented by ALA Conference Services
Sarah, Duchess of York Graphic Novel Panel, Opening General Session, featuring Toni Morrison Sunday, June 27, featuring David Small Saturday, June 26, 5:30–6:30 p.m. 8:00–9:00 a.m. Monday, June 28, WCC, Hall D In August, the Duchess 10:30–11:30 a.m. anders
S will launch a new David Small was born
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and professor. Her contributions to the modern canon are T with Sterling Publishing In school he became numerous. Some of her acclaimed titles include The Bluest Eye, called Helping Hand and , which won the Pulitzer Prize known as “the kid Song of Solomon Beloved Gordon books. The Duchess is for Fiction in 1988. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in who could draw good,”
imothy Greenfie the author of many children’s books, T but David never considered a career in art 1993. Her newest books for children are Peeny Butter Fudge including the New York Times bestseller Tea because it was so easy for him. At 21, after and Little Cloud and Lady Wind. for Ruby, a five-book children’s series about many years of writing plays, David took the Sponsored by Simon and Schuster the adventures of Little Red and the Budgie, advice of a friend who informed him that the as well as the Little Helicopter series. She doodles he made on the telephone pad were has also written books for adults, including: better than anything he had ever written. What I Know Now: Lessons Learned The He switched his major to Art and never Hard Way; Travels with Queen Victoria; looked back. David’s books have won many Auditorium Speaker Series and Victoria and Albert: Family Life at of the top awards accorded to illustration, Washington Convention Center, Ballroom B/C Osborne House. including the 1997 Caldecott Medal and Sponsored by Sterling Publishing the Christopher Medal for The Gardener Nancy Pearl with Sue Monk (written by his wife, Sarah Stewart) and the Mary McDonagh Kidd and Ann Dave Isay 2001 Caldecott Medal for So, You Want To Murphy Kidd Taylor Sunday, June 27, Be President? by Judith St. George. Most recently David wrote the memoir which Saturday, June 26, Saturday, 10:30–11:30 a.m. Stiches was nominated for a National Book Award. Dave Isay is the 8:00–9:00 a.m. or June 26, l Sponsored by W.W. Norton & Company ay founder of StoryCorps, In celebration of the T 10:30– 50th anniversary of a nonprofit oral history
cott 11:30 a.m.
S Dennis Lehane To Kill a Mockingbird, Sue Monk Kidd project that honors and Monday, June 28, an American classic, grew up in the tiny town of Sylvester, celebrates the lives of Nancy Pearl will interview Mary McDonagh Georgia, a place that deeply influenced everyday people through 8:00–9:00 a.m. ood
listening. In spirit and in scope, StoryCorps g Murphy, Emmy award-winning filmmaker the writing of her first novel The Secret Dennis Lehane was models itself after the Works Progress and author of the upcoming book Scout, Life of Bees. Her newest book, Traveling born and raised in Administration (WPA) of the 1930s, which Atticus and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Dorchester, Massachu- recorded oral history interviews across Years of To Kill a Mockingbird. Nancy Pearl Story, co-authored with her daughter Ann setts. He is the author speaks about the pleasures of reading to the country. To date, more than 50,000 of eight novels, includ-
Kidd Taylor, is a dual memoir set against iana Lucas Leaven library and community groups throughout the backdrops of Greece and France, people have participated in StoryCorps, D ing the New York the world and comments on books regularly chronicling Sue and Ann’s travels together, many of whom have come as part of special Times bestsellers Gone, Baby, Gone; The on NPR’s Morning Edition. Pearl is the as they undertake a journey to redefine initiatives to reach underrepresented Given Day; Mystic River; and Shutter author of Book Crush: For Kids and Teens: themselves and rediscover each other. Ann voices. Winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Island, as well as Coronado, a collection Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Kidd Taylor has published articles and Fellowship, Dave Isay is also the author of short stories and a play. Mystic River or editor of four books that grew out of his Moment, and Interest; and Book Lust: essays in Skirt! magazine in Charleston, was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award Recommended Reading for Every Mood, South Carolina, where she worked for two public radio documentary work, including and won both the Anthony Award and the Moment, and Reason. years after college as an editorial assistant. Listening Is an Act of Love, a New York Barry Award for Best Novel as well as the Times bestseller. His new book is Mom: A Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction given Sponsored by HarperCollins Sponsored by Penguin Group USA Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps. by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Sponsored by American Libraries Sponsored by HarperCollins
6 | A A Programming Programming Librarian’s Librarian’s Guide Guide to to Literature Literature Programs Programs & & Author Author Events Events ALAALA AnnualAnnual Conference,Conference, Washington,Washington DC, June 24–29, 2010 | 7 Presented by Booklist
John Grisham Junot Diaz Everyone’s a Critic: The Future of Book Reviewing Monday, June 28, Monday June 28, Saturday, June 26, 1:30–3:30 p.m. 1:30–2:30 pm 3:00–4:00 p.m. WCC, 202A John Grisham is the Junot Diaz exploded The top-down hierarchy of book reviewing has been changed forever author of 21 novels, into the literary scene er by a generation of web users who rate, review, and comment while ll
one work of nonfiction, a in 1996 with Drown, they navigate–and who can start their own book-review publication in k
and one collection ac l a collection of short minutes. Established cultural arbiters fear losing market share in the of stories including stories that was one Wild West of the World Wide Web. But is old versus new an either/or A Time to Kill, The Luis B of the first books proposition? Continuing the discussion begun in last year’s Books and Firm and The Pelican Brief, as well as to illuminate the lives of Dominican- Blogs: Made for Each Other, presenters will discuss the ways critical authority is earned and one work of nonfiction and one collection American immigrants. Diaz’s first novel, how old and new media can complement each other, and they will share their most trusted of short stories. Grisham, a number-one The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, is sources of reviews. Join Keir Graff, senior editor of Booklist Online, and three experts who international bestselling author, will be the winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for approach book reviewing from different perspectives, for a lively exploration of the ways writing his first-ever children’s books series. Fiction. Moving from the hardscrabble top-down and bottom-up can meet in the middle. The two novels in this series will be aimed inner-city neighborhoods of New Jersey to at readers ages 8-12, The first book in the the barrios of Santo Domingo, and from series, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, will the fear-plagued Trujillo dictatorship to the follow the adventures of a 13-year-old, multicultural campuses of the contemporary Panelists: amateur attorney who unwittingly becomes United States, Diaz both redefines the involved in a high-profile murder trial. immigrant experience and transcends it. Sponsored by Penguin Young Readers Sponsored by Penguin Group Group
Closing Session, Amy Sedaris Tuesday, June 29, 9:00–10:00 a.m. WCC, Ballroom B/C Amy Sedaris is the author of the New York Times Ron Charles, Jennifer Hubert Swan, Jon P. Fine, bestseller I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence. Deputy Editor, Middle School Librarian, Director of Author and She has appeared in several movies and television The Washington Little Red School House Publisher Relations, & Elisabeth Irwin High Amazon.com shows, and, with Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert, is Post Book World School (New York) a co-author of the novel Wigfield. She also co-wrote Strangers with Candy, the hit show on Comedy Central. She lives in Manhattan with her pet rabbit, Dusty. Sponsored by Grand Central Publishing
8 | A A Programming Programming Librarian’s Librarian’s Guide Guide to to Literature Literature Programs Programs & & Author Author Events Events ALAALA Annual Annual Conference,Conference, Washington,Washington DC, June 24–29, 2010 | 9 Presented by the Public Presented by the Reference & Library Association (PLA) User Services Association (RUSA)
PLA President’s Program, featuring Will Shortz Literary Tastes Breakfast Sunday, June 27, 1:00 p.m. Sunday, June 27, 8:00 – 10:00 a.m. WCC, Ballroom B/C Grand, Independence A Famed puzzle master Will Shortz will keynote the PLA Hosted by the Collection Development and Evaluation President’s Program. Listeners to NPR’s Weekend Sunday Section (CODES) of the Reference and User Services Edition and readers of the New York Times are familiar Association (RUSA). with the challenging style of Will Shortz, the world’s only Smart book lovers know the only place to start your academically accredited enigmatologist, a 14-letter word Sunday morning at Annual Conference is at the Literary meaning “someone involved in the science of puzzles.” Tastes Breakfast. The breakfast is a conference tradition There will be a book signing following the President’s that celebrates the power and pleasure of reading. RUSA Program. A selection of the more than 200 puzzle books Shortz has either authored or award–winning authors read from their work, ruminate on writing and sign books, edited will be available for purchase onsite. while attendees enjoy a scrumptious breakfast. This year’s authors include Adriana Trigiani, author of Very Valentine (2010 Reading List selection, Women’s Fiction); Japanese Paper Theater: Interactive Culture for Your Library Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply: A Novel (2010 Notable Books List pick); and Sunday, June 27, 4:00–5:30 p.m. Laney Salisbury, co-author of Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (2010 Notable Books List pick). WCC, 140 A/B Parents’ Choice award-winning authors demonstrate how the traditional Japanese Tickets: storytelling format called kamishibai (paper theater) can inspire children to develop literacy and enable librarians to tell stories rather than simply read them. The session RUSA members: $55 explores kamishibai history and educational applications, showing how kamishibai ALA members and non-members: $60 can transform storytime into a dynamic, multicultural experience. Speakers: David Battino, Owner, Batmosphere (California); Hazuki Kataoka, Author/Performer, Add the breakfast to your registration by locating it on the list of ticketed events Leaf Moon Arts (California) in the online registration form (event code RUS1) located at www.ala.org/annual. Non-conference attendees can purchase tickets for the breakfast only by selected “Preconferences and Ticketed Events Only” as their registration type, then selecting Phat* Fiction: Engaging Hip-Hop Literature in the Public the Literary Tastes Breakfast from the event list. Library (*phat=popular, hip and tempting fiction) Monday, June 28, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. WCC, 147 B Why should librarians identify and purchase urban fiction? While book reviews, publishers’ lists, and patron requests drive much library purchasing, mainstream publishers’ omission of hip-hop imprints often means patrons are not finding what they want to read on library shelves. This presentation will be both an exploration of the impact of hip-hop publishers and authors in public libraries and a comparison of racial, ethnic and regional aspects of urban fiction presentation. Speakers: Coe Booth, Author; Carleen Brice, Author; Tracy Brown, Author; Kimberla Lawson Roby, Author; Susan McClelland, Readers’ Advisor Librarian, Evanston Public Adriana Trigiani Dan Chaon Laney Salisbury Library (Illinois); Diane McKinney Whetston, Author; Jacquelin Woodson, Author
For more information about PLA programs at ALA Annual Conference, please visit www.pla.org
10 | A A Programming Programming Librarian’s Librarian’s Guide Guide to to Literature Literature Programs Programs & & AuthorAuthor EventsEvents ALAALA Annual Annual Conference,Conference, Washington,Washington DC, June 24–29, 2010 | 11 Presented by the Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends & Foundations (ALTAFF)
The Laugh’s On Us! Sunday, June 27, 5:30–7:30 p.m. Grand, Constitution C/D Gala Author Tea Monday, June 28, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. REN, Grand Ballroom Comedian and ALTAFF spokesperson Paula Poundstone will headline this evening featuring Don’t miss this traditional event featuring bestselling authors who will discuss their top comedians and authors. Wine and cheese will be served, and a book signing will follow. writing life and forthcoming books. Enjoy tea, coffee, finger sandwiches, and a variety Some books will be given away free and others will be available for purchase at a generous of sweet treats. A book signing will follow, with some books given away free and discount. Purchase tickets early to this event, which is always a sell-out. Advance tickets others available for purchase at a generous discount. This event is sponsored by are $45 ($40 for ALTAFF division members), $45 at the door. Use event code ALT2 when ReferenceUSA. Tickets are $35 in advance ($30 for ALTAFF division members), $45 registering with ALA. at the door.
Paula Poundstone, There’s contributing editor at Real Simple, the features director Laura Lippman, I’d Know Carolyn Parkhurst, The Nothing in This Book That I Meant at SELF and the executive editor and senior contributing You Anywhere (HarperCollins). Nobodies Album (Random (Random House). Paula editor at . Laura Lippman has been House). Carolyn Parkhurst to Say Glamour er g
Poundstone has been a stand-up awarded every major prize in holds an MFA in fiction from Kathy Kinney and l tt
comic for more than 27 years. She in crime fiction. Since the E American University. She is Cindy Ratzlaff, bb o appears regularly on NPR’s Wait C publication of What the the author of two previous eissid arion V Queen of Your Own Life: Wait… Don’t Tell Me! As ALTAFF’s Jan Dead Know, each of her M novels, the national bestseller ine
l The Grown-Up Woman’s national spokesperson, she helps spread the word hardcovers has hit the New York Times bestseller and . She lives in Guide to Claiming The Dogs of Babel Lost and Found about libraries and Friends groups. Paula lives in Santa list. A recent recipient of the first Mayor’s Prize, she Washington, DC, with her husband and their son. Jacque Happiness and Getting Monica, California with her three children. lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her husband, the Life You Deserve (Harlequin). Kathy Kinney is best Heidi W. Durrow, The David Simon. Roy Blount Jr., Hail, Hail, known for her iconic role as Mimi in the long-running The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Euphoria! (HarperCollins). Roy Blount Drew Carey Show and is now appearing in a recurring Sharyn McCrumb, The (Algonquin). A graduate of is a humorist, sportswriter, poet, role on The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She Devil Amongst the Lawyers (St. Stanford University, Columbia d
l performer, lecturer, dramatist and the is currently co-producing a literacy project for children. Martin’s). Sharyn McCrumb is University’s Graduate School wood author of 12 books. His writing has Cindy Ratzlaff was named to the Advertising Age l the author of The Rosewood of Journalism, and Yale Law imothi Jane Graham T appeared in numerous publications, Marketing 50 list for the blockbuster launch of the South inshe Casket, She Walks These Hills, School, Heidi W. Durrow H y Joan Griswo including the , , . She is president of the marketing and brand and many other acclaimed has won several awards for her writing and has
New Yorker Playboy Beach Diet ll o Vanity Fair, GQ, Rolling Stone, and National Geographic. He strategy firm Brand New Brand You. H novels. Her books have been received grants from the New York Foundation currently lives in western Massachusetts and New York City. named notable books of the year by the for the Arts, the American Scandinavian Julie Klausner, I Don’t Care New York and the . She lives and Foundation, and the Lois Roth Endowment and a Jim Breuer, I’m Not High: From About Your Band: What I Learned Times Los Angeles Times writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge, less than a Fellowship for Emerging Writers from the Jerome Goat Boy to Family Man (Penguin). from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, hundred miles from where her family settled in Foundation. Her writing has been published in Jim Breuer is a stand-up comedian Pornographers, Felons, Faux 1790 in the Smoky Mountains that divide North , the , best known for his portrayal of Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Alaska Quarterly Review Literary Review Carolina and Tennessee. and others. “Goat Boy” on Saturday Night Guys I’ve Dated (Penguin). Julie ion D Live between 1995 and 1998. He Klausner’s TV writing credits Sophie Hannah, The Dead an D has appeared in several movies, include “TV Funhouse” on Saturday Night Live and The Lie Down (Penguin). Sophie including 1998’s Half Baked. His documentary More Than Big Gay Sketch Show, and her prose has appeared in the Hannah is a bestselling crime Me screened at the Just For Laughs Comedy Conference in New York Times, New York Magazine Online, McSweeney’s fiction writer. Her psychological
Montreal. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, father, and and Salon.com. This is her first book. ather thrillers Little Face, Hurting M
three daughters. k Distance and The Wrong
Edward Ugel, I’m With Fatty: ar M are all international Stephanie Dolgoff, My Formerly Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Mother bestsellers. was long-listed for the Hot Life: Dispatches from Just Miserable Weeks (Perseus). Edward Little Face 2007 Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the the Other Side of Young (Random Ugel is the author of the critically Year Award and the IMPAC Award. She lives in House). Stephanie Dolgoff is acclaimed memoir Money For Yorkshire, England. editor-at-large at Parenting, and Nothing: One Man’s Journey Through a weekly blogger for More.com and the Dark Side of Lottery Millions. Parenting.com. She also maintains He is a resident blogger for the Huffington Post and her own popular blog, FormerlyHot.com. She has been a a contributing writer for the New York Times and Washingtonian magazine. 12 | A Programming Librarian’s Guide to Literature Programs & Author Events ALA Annual Conference, Washington DC, June 24–29, 2010 | 13 Isn’t it Romantic? Saturday, June 26, 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. WCC, 142 It’s All Politics Saturday, June 26, 1:30–3:30 p.m. WCC, 142 Join best-selling romance writers as they discuss their work. The program will be Washington, DC, is the perfect setting for best-selling authors to share their work on moderated by Barbara Hoffert, book review editor for Library Journal. An author politics and current events. The program will be moderated by Barbara Hoffert, book signing will follow. Some books will be given away and others will be sold at a review editor for Library Journal. An author signing will follow. Some books will be generous discount. given away and others will be sold at a generous discount.
Beth Harbison, Madeline Hunter, Deborah Amos, Eclipse of and Government Policy at Syracuse University. He Thin, Rich, Pretty (Macmillan). Ravishing in Red (Penguin). the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and is the author of eight books, including Who Really Beth Harbison is the New New York Times bestselling Upheaval in the Middle East Cares, Gross National Happiness, and the textbook art
York Times bestselling author author Madeline Hunter is gg (Perseus). Deborah Amos’s Social Entrepreneurship. Previously, he spent 12 a of Hope in a Jar, Secrets of a widely regarded as one of T reports can be heard on years as a professional French hornist with the City Shoe Addict, and Shoe Addicts today’s most talented romance NPR’s award-winning Morning Orchestra of Barcelona and other ensembles. hannon
Anonymous. She is also a writers. More than two million S , Edition All Things Considered Robert E. Pierre, A Day serious product junkie, with enough lip glosses, of her novels are in print and they have been and . For a decade she reported Weekend Edition Late and a Dollar Short: High shampoos, conditioners, and foundations to lube translated into 12 languages. She is a two-time for television news, including ABC’s Nightline Hopes and Deferred Dreams every car on the streets of suburban DC, where she winner of Romance Writers of America’s prestigious and and the PBS programs World News Tonight in Obama’s “Post Racial” lives with her husband and two children. RITA Award and frequently receives starred reviews with Bill Moyers and . She has won NOW Frontline America (with Jon Jeter; Wiley). and top picks from and Kristan Higgins, All I Ever Publisher’s Weekly RT Book many awards, including the Edward Weintal Prize Robert E. Pierre, a reporter and Reviews. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family. for Diplomatic Reporting in 2009. She lives in New Wanted (Harlequin). Kristan editor at the Washington Post, York City. Higgins is the author of sev- Elizabeth Hoyt, Wicked has covered politics and social issues at the Post eral award-winning romantic Intentions (Hachette). Eliza- David Finkel, The Good for nearly two decades. He is a former Chicago tudio comedies, including S beth Hoyt is a New York Times urtis Catch of Soldiers (Farrar, Straus and bureau chief, and a key figure in the Post ’s 2006 C , winner of the 2008 ini bestselling author of histori- the Day Ill Giroux). David Finkel is a staff award-winning series Being a Black Man. arie M Romance Writers of America cal romance. She also writes ins writer for the Washington k
essen David Kilcullen,
(RITA) Award for best single title contemporary ro- D deliciously fun contemporary Post, and is also the leader of Counterinsurgency (Oxford mance, and Just One of the Guys, voted Best Book of Jon romance under the name Julia the Post ’s national reporting University Press). David
2008/Reviewers’ Choice and Best Women’s Fiction/ Harper. Elizabeth lives in central Illinois with three Lucian Per team. He won the Pulitzer Kilcullen is one of the world’s Readers’ Poll from All About Romance. She lives in untrained dogs, two angelic but bickering children, Prize for explanatory reporting in 2006 for a series most influential experts Connecticut with her firefighter husband, two lovely and one long-suffering husband. of stories about U.S.-funded democracy efforts in on counterinsurgency and children, one devoted dog and a regal cat. Yemen. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his Mary Blayney, Courtesan’s modern warfare. A senior wife and two daughters. Kathryn Caskie, The Most Kiss (Random House). Mary counterinsurgency advisor to General David hy
p Wicked of Sins (HarperCollins). Blayney lives in southern Arthur C. Brooks, The Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war powerfully ra
g USA Today best-selling author Maryland within sight of the Battle: How the Fight influenced America’s decision to rethink its military Kathryn Caskie has written Chesapeake Bay, an hour from between Free Enterprise and strategy in Iraq and implement “the surge.” four books for Avon. In 2005, Washington, DC. The Battle
ht Big Government Will Shape g Kine Photo Bantam 2010 l she was a finalist for the pres- of St. Leonard Creek–the first America’s Future (Perseus).
Pau tigious RITA Award. She didn’t step toward the attack on the capital in 1814–took Arthur C. Brooks is president
win, but she did go bowling in her ball gown after place a few miles from her home. Each year the Justin Kni of the American Enterprise the ceremony. event is reenacted and a bit of the period she loves Institute for Public Policy Research. Until 2009, so much comes to life. When not distracted by the he was the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business beach or the history of the area, she spends her time making up the history of the Pennistan family.
14 | A Programming Librarian’s Guide to Literature Programs & Author Events ALA Annual Conference, Washington DC, June 24–29, 2010 | 15 Authors Come in All Colors Sunday, June 27, 1:30–3:30 p.m. WCC, 142 First Author, First Book Monday, June 28, 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. WCC, 152 Join writers with diverse backgrounds and points of view. The program will be moderated This traditional event allows the audience to hear from future bestselling authors. The by Barbara Hoffert, book review editor for Library Journal. An author signing will follow. program will be moderated by Barbara Hoffert, book review editor for Library Journal. Some books will be given away and others will be sold at a generous discount. An author signing will follow. Some books will be given away and others will be sold at a generous discount.
Artist Arthur, Manifest Times Magazine, and The Progressive, and she (Harlequin). Artist Arthur, also has been chosen to take part in Beirut39, which Jean Kwok, Girl in Daphne Kalotay, Russian known as A.C. Arthur, was celebrates the 39 most gifted writers of Arab origin Translation (Penguin). Jean Winter (HarperCollins). born and raised in Baltimore, under the age of 40. She lives in Austin, Texas, and Kwok was born in Hong Kong. Daphne Kalotay was born Maryland. Determined to bring is at work on a collection of stories and a new novel. Along with her family, she and raised in New Jersey and
a new edge to romance, she strada immigrated to Brooklyn when attended Vassar College, E
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Lundeen continues to develop intriguing she was five and worked in a l where she graduated with a (HarperCollins). Dolen rid Wench g aro i plots, sensual love scenes, racy characters and Perkins-Valdez’s fiction and S Chinatown clothing factory for C BA in psychology. In 1993, fresh dialogues. She won the YOUnity Guild’s much of her childhood. She won early admission she moved to Massachusetts to attend Boston
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2005-06, the 2007 EMMA Award for Favorite E English and American literature, before going on remained at BU to complete a PhD in modern and American Review, North Romantic Suspense, and has also received an RT Book to earn an MFA in fiction at Columbia. She has contemporary literature. She has taught creative Louie Carolina Literary Review and Choice Award Nomination for Best African worked as an English teacher, a Dutch–English writing at Boston University and Middlebury College Reviews the Richard Wright Newsletter. Born and raised American Romance. in Memphis, a graduate of Harvard, and a former translator, a professional ballroom dancer, a reader and is currently the visiting writer-in-residence at R. Dwayne Betts, University of California President’s Postdoctoral for the blind, a housekeeper, a dishwasher, and a Skidmore College. computer graphics specialist. Her work has been A Question of Freedom: Fellow, she teaches creative writing at the Mitchell James Kaplan, published in magazine, , and A Memoir of Learning, University of Puget Sound. She splits her time Story Prairie Schooner By Fire, By Water (Random ah the NuyorAsian Anthology. ll Survival, and Coming of Age between Washington, DC, and Seattle. House). Mitchell James Kaplan du (Penguin). R. Dwayne Ab in Prison has lived and worked primarily Kimberla Lawson Roby, Jay Varner, Nothing Left Betts has taught poetry in to Burn (Algonquin). Jay in Paris and Los Angeles as a
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M several Washington, DC, (Hachette). Kimberla Lawson Varner grew up in central translator, screenwriter, and area public schools. The Washington Post ran a Roby is the New York Times Pennsylvania. He earned a script consultant. Currently, he front-page profile about him and YoungMenRead, ey BA in creative writing from resides in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania., with his wife bestselling author of the ll
a book club he began for boys. In 2007 he rave C Susquehanna University and two children. He plays classical and jazz flute
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graduated with high honors from Prince George’s E and an MFA in creative and is a licensed private pilot. Pau Black series. Her novels have Community College, and he was given the honor of nonfiction from the University of North Carolina, frequented The New York Times bestseller list and Isabel Wilkerson, The addressing his peers and classmates at the Wilmington. He currently lives in Charlottesville, the bestseller lists of USA Today, the Washington Warmth of Other Suns: The University of Maryland as the 2009 student Virginia, with his wife. Post, Publishers Weekly, Essence Magazine, and Epic Story of America’s Great commencement speaker. Upscale Magazine. She lives with her husband in Eugenia Kim, The Calligra- Migration (Random House). Randa Jarrar, A Map of Rockford, Illinois. pher’s Daughter (Macmillan). Isabel Wilkerson is professor Home (Penguin). Randa Eugenia Kim, an MFA gradu- of journalism and director hy p Jarrar’s A Map of Home won a ra ate of Bennington College, has of narrative nonfiction at g Hopwood Award and an Arab- published short stories and Boston University. In 1994, while Chicago bureau American Book Award. Her work Photo essays in journals and chief of the New York Times, she became the first g has appeared in Ploughshares, anthologies, including Echoes African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize Berin Five Chapters, the New York Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings. She in journalism. She has also won a George S. Polk lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and son. Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a journalist The Calligrapher’s Daughter is her first novel. of the year award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
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