2020 Event Author Line-Up Jean Becker is the author of the upcoming book, Pearls of Wisdom, about First Lady Barbara Bush. Full of Barbara Bush's trademark wit and thoughtfulness, Pearls of Wisdom is a poignant reflection on life, love, family, and the world by one of America's most iconic and beloved public figures. Jean’s literary works in- clude support of Barbara Bush, A Memoir and the follow-up book, Reflections. Jean served as chief of staff for President George H.W. Bush for more than 35 years and deputy press secretary to First Lady Barbara Bush from 1989 to 1992. Before joining the Bush White House staff in 1989, Ms. Becker was a newspaper reporter for 10 years, including a four-year stint at USA TODAY where her duties included covering the 1988 presidential election and a Page One editor. H. W. Brands, Ph.D. is an American historian who holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at Universi- ty of Texas at Austin. He has authored 30 books on U. S. history, several of which have been named New York Times bestsellers. He has twice been selected as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his books, The First American and Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His latest book, Dreams of El Dorado, tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. Title Sponsor Kathy Reichs, Ph.D. is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and one of only 100 forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, as a forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her mesmerizing forensic thrillers. She has authored more than 35 books, including her New York Times bestselling Bones series. Her forthcoming book, Conspiracy of Bones, features main charac- ter Temperance Brennan and is scheduled for release on March 17, 2020. Dr. Reichs was also a producer of the hit Fox TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels. Daniel Silva is the #1 award-winning New York Times Bestselling Author of more than 20 spy novels. Silva entered the scene in 1997 with his electrifying bestselling debut, The Unlikely Spy, after working as a jour- nalist with United Press International and later as an executive producer for CNN. As a journalist, Silva cov- ered the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and later worked on the foreign desk in Washington and as Middle East correspondent in Cairo and the Persian Gulf. His career catapulted follow- ing the release of The Kill Artist, which debuted art restorer and Israeli secret agent Gabriel Allon, who re- turns in more than a dozen subsequent works. Since he began full-time in 1997, each of Silva’s books have been New York Times and international bestsellers. Silva’s latest novel, The Order, is set to be released in July 2020. Tuesday, October 6 BushHoustonLiteracy.org/Celebration 346-212-2310 or [email protected] .