CONTENTS 4 Mayor’s Welcome 6 SD Humanities Council Welcome 7 Event Locations and Parking 8 A Tribute to Children’s and Young Adult Literature Sponsored by United Way, John T. Vucurevich Foundation, Northern Hills Federal Credit Union and First Bank & Trust 9 A Tribute to Fiction Sponsored by AWC Family Foundation 10 A Tribute to Poetry Sponsored by Brass Family Foundation 11 A Tribute to Non-Fiction Sponsored by South Dakota Public Broadcasting 12 A Tribute to Writers’ Support Sponsored by South Dakota Arts Council 13 A Tribute to History and Tribal Writing Sponsored by Home Slice Media and City of Deadwood 14 Presenters 24 Schedule of Events 30 Exhibitors’ Hall Who Was Nicholas Black Elk? Black Elk, or Heȟáka Sápa (1863-1950), was an Oglala Lakota vision- ary and healer whose messages about the unity of humanity and Earth were conveyed by John G. Neihardt in the book Black Elk Speaks. At age 9, Black Elk had his Great Vision on Black Elk Peak (then called Harney Peak), the highest natural point in South Dakota and the Black Hills, which many Lakota consider to be the center of the world. The cover photograph was taken by Neihardt in 1931 when Black Elk returned to the peak to pray. Photo courtesy of the John G. Neihardt Trust. For more information visit sdbookfestival.com or call (605) 688-6113. Times and pre- senters listed are subject to change. Changes will be announced on sdbookfestival.com, twitter.com/sdhumanities, facebook.com/sdhumanities and included in the Festival Sur- vivor’s Guide, a handout available at the Exhibitors’ Hall information desk in the Dead- wood Mountain Grand Event Center. The South Dakota Festival of Books guide is a publication of 410 E. Third St. • Yankton, SD 57078 800-456-5117 • www.SouthDakotaMagazine.com 3 WELCOME... Festival of Books Visitors: have the privilege as mayor of the city of Deadwood to welcome you I to our community for the 15th Annual South Dakota Festival of Books. Since the inception of this event in 2003, Deadwood has been the host city each odd-numbered year. The City of Deadwood, Deadwood His- toric Preservation Commission and Deadwood City Library are pleased to partner with the South Dakota Humanities Council to present this book festival. The list of presenters is long and impressive. Book lovers will have an opportunity to listen to a diverse group of authors from across the country. There are many historical and cultural sites to visit throughout the City of Deadwood, including the Days of ’76 Museum, the Adams House and Museum, Mt. Moriah, the Broken Boot Gold Mine and our new Welcome Center. We encourage you to visit each and every one. We look forward to having you join us for this exciting event and hope you get a chance to explore Deadwood in its 55th anniversary of being designated a National Historic Landmark. If there is anything I can do to make your visit more pleasant, please contact me. Sincerely, Charles Turbiville, Mayor City of Deadwood ADVERTISING DIRECTORY Arts South Dakota .................................16 Sioux Falls Area Community Fndtn .........21 Candlewick Press ...................................17 Sturgis Big Read .....................................19 Center for Western Studies ....................17 SD Agricultural Heritage Museum ..........23 Children’s Museum of SD .......................14 SD Art Museum .....................................23 Deadwood Chamber of Commerce ......25 SD Community Foundation ..................... 5 Deadwood History .................................15 SD Historical Society Press ........................2 Deadwood Mountain Grand .................25 SD Humanities Council ..............15, 20, 25 Ex Machina Publishing .............................6 SD Public Broadcasting ...........................31 Little Leaf Copy Editing ...........................21 SD State Library ......................................24 Mitzi’s Books/Prairie Edge .........................4 Thunder Hawk Books .............................24 Mount Rushmore Society .........................3 University of Nebraska Press ...................18 Prairie Pages Bookseller ............................6 4 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS 5 LEAVE US A STORY We are in challenging times! We need your help. HAT WOULD THE SOUTH DAKOTA literary landscape look like without the Festival of Books? I’ve been involved with the festival since its inception in 2003, so it is difficult to think of Wautumn without a flurry of preparations. It is difficult to imagine the Dead- wood Mountain Grand without literary-related exhibits, the excitement of scores of people in line waiting for author signatures and chats, reporters interview- ing famous or infamous authors, or chil- dren wildly waving their arms to answer the questions posed by an author. I can also imagine a cultural void in the state without the stories and bonds cre- ated in communities hosting programs with NEH grant funds or One Book South Dakota authors like William Kent Krueger and J. Ryan Stradal. Recent funding uncertainties due to the announcement of administrative budgets to shut down NEH, NEA and many other organi- zations that lift our culture force us to ponder “Why the Humanities?” To respond, we reached out for guest essays from SDHC leaders, festival pre- senters, grantees, newspaper reporters, attorneys, scholars — people who were at some point touched by the spark of a story or the joy in a child’s eyes. Book festival author Linda Hasselstrom opened her essay, “Change the World: With the Humanities and the Arts,” by quoting Malala Yousafzai, an education advocate from Pakistan — “One child, one book, one teacher, one pen can change the world.” In his essay, former board member Steve Sanford said, “The humanities are fully half our human existence,” which leads me to encourage you to ponder life without SDHC’s humanities stories. The “Why the Humanities” blog series is available on our website, www.sdhumanities.org. Please make your voice heard in Washington, D.C. “To cut funding is not only a denial of the essence of our species, but it erases our voice from the future,” says festival author Patrick Hicks in his essay, “Hardwired for Story.” The festival leaves us stories and provides voices for our future. Help us “leave a story” by getting involved through investing and telling your story. It’s not too early to start making plans for the September 2018 festival in Brookings and Sioux Falls. We will be there. Sherry DeBoer Executive Director South Dakota Humanities Council 6 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS FESTIVAL OF BOOKS EVENT LOCATIONS To Rapid City DEADWOOD A. ADAMS MUSEUM (54 Sherman St.) B. DEADWOOD CITY HALL (108 Sherman St.) C. DEADWOOD MOUNTAIN GRAND (1906 Dead- wood Mountain Dr.) • Event Center • Prospector Room • Hotel Conference Room • Bill’s Backstage Bar D. DEADWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY (435 Williams St.) • Downstairs • Main Floor E. DEADWOOD WELCOME CENTER (501 Main St.) F. FRANKLIN HOTEL (700 Main St.) • Emerald Room – 2nd floor G. HOMESTAKE ADAMS RESEARCH & CULTURAL CENTER (HARCC) (150 Sherman St.) • Mary Adams Lecture Hall – 2nd floor H. MARTIN & MASON HOTEL (33 Deadwood St.) • 1898 Ballroom – 3rd floor I. MASONIC TEMPLE (715 Main St.) • Main floor J. TATANKA – Story of the bison (100 Tatanka Dr.) LEAD – Take Hwy. 14A south to Lead. K L K. HISTORIC HOMESTAKE OPERA HOUSE (313 W. Main St.) L. SANFORD LAB HOMESTAKE VISITOR CENTER (160 W. Main St.) RAPID CITY – Take Hwy. 14A north to I90 to Rapid City. M. DAHL ARTS CENTER (713 7th St.) N. RACING MAGPIE & SEED THEATER (406 5th St.) O. RAPID CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY (610 Quincy St.) STAY View changes to the schedule and other news at facebook.com/sdhumanities or at twitter.com/ CONNECTED sdhumanities and use #sdbookfest when commenting or to view others’ comments. FESTIVAL GUIDELINES Please abide by the following guidelines to make this event enjoyable for all: no soliciting or distributing flyers, literature, etc., of any kind at any festival venue without prior consent. No videotaping or tape recording. Turn cell phones and pagers off during presentations. The Festival of Books, its sponsors and venues are not responsible for lost or stolen items. 7 CHILDREN’S/Y.A. OUTSIDE THE BOX Graphic novelist Gene Luen Adventures in Yang thinks it’s important Illustrating for kids to read outside their comfort zones. So when he promotes his platform “Reading HRIS VAN DUSEN credits Without Walls” as National his mom for fostering his ar- Ambassador for Young People’s tistic capabilities. “I’m the literature, Yang challenges kids second youngest of five boys to read about someone who and we all like to draw,” Van doesn’t look or live like them, Dusen says. “I think my moth- or choose a format or topic that er suggested drawing because otherwise, they don’t normally read for fun. likeC on a rainy day in the summer, when “I think sometimes readers — you have five boys running around the of all ages, really — tend to find house it can get a little crazy. I remem- a type of book we like and then ber coming up to her and saying, ‘What we return to that type of book can we do? There’s nothing to do.’ She’d over and over again,” Yang says. grab a bunch of paper, put us around the astounded that someone actually still While he doesn’t think that’s a dining room table and we’d sit there and paints pictures like this.” When planning bad thing, he believes we miss just draw.” his own books, he thinks about illustra- out if we stick to that home base Van Dusen spent over 10 years as an tion possibilities as he’s formulating the too closely. editorial illustrator, drawing for adver- story. He’s written eight stories of his Yang, who’s best known for tising, magazines, games and toys. “But own and illustrated books written by his graphic novels and work the work that I really enjoyed the most Mac Barnett and Kate DiCamillo. And on Avatar: The Last Airbender were kids’ magazines or illustrations though his books have done well, he’s comics, says he grew up as a geared towards kids,” he says.