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This Year's Authors

Below is the list of authors scheduled to appear at this year's Southern Festival of Books. This list is sorted alphabetically and then is broken into multiple pages. If you would like a one-page version of this list (in order to print the entire list, for example), please click here.

Mark Wayne Adams

is the illustrator of several books including The Belly Button Fairy and The Fart Fairy. He has worked for the Walt Disney Company both as a caricature artist and as a graphic designer. He lives in Longwood, Florida.

Presentation: Sunday, 1:30-2:30 pm, Youth Stage; Sign: Sunday, 2:30-3:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
King for a A Day: The Story of Stories
http://www.markwayneadams.com
D. Michelle Adkerson

 teaches writing and literature at Nashville State Community College and maintains a freelance editing business, Adkerson Communications. She has published poetry and other work under her own name and several pennames, and is currently at work on a novel, Pomegranates.
Time and Tradition: A Poetry Anthology
Constance Alexander

has written seventeen plays that have been performed around the country and in Scotland. In addition to the novel, she is at work on an opera with composer Jeremy Beck, which received funding from the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Panel: Friday, 4:00-5:00 pm, Room 31; Sign: Friday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
Kilroy Was Here
http://www.constancealexander.com
Nan Corbitt Allen

is a writer and musician who has published more than eighty dramatic musicals, sketchbooks, and collections -- most written in collaboration with her husband, Dennis. A multiple Dove Award nominee, she speaks annually at conferences and seminars. She lives in Tennessee.

Panel: Sunday, 2:00-3:30 pm, Room 31; Sign: Sunday, 3:30-4:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
Watercolor Summer
http://www.allenhouseproductions.com
Lisa Alther

is the author of five best-selling novels, which have been published in fifteen languages and sold over six million copies worldwide. She divides her time between Tennessee, Vermont, and New York City. This is her first work of nonfiction.

Presentation: Saturday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Senate Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
Washed in the Blood
http://www.lisaalther.com
Tom Angleberger

applied for a job as a newspaper artist and was mistakenly assigned to cover local government meetings. Fifteen years and countless town council meetings later, he is still writing instead of drawing, currently as a columnist for the Roanoke Times in Roanoke, Virginia. He began work on his first book while in middle school. Tom is married to author-illustrator Cece Bell. They live in Christiansburg, Virginia.

 Presentation: Sunday, 12:15-01:15 pm, Youth Stage; Sign: Sunday, 1:30-2:00 pm, Signing Colonnade; Panel: Sunday, 2:00-3:30 pm, Room 29; Sign: Sunday, 3:30-4:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
Darth Paper Strikes Back: An Origami Yoda Book
http://www.origamiyoda.com
Tracy Barrett

teaches Italian language and civilization at Vanderbilt University. Her books include King of Ithaka, On Etruscan Time, Cold in Summer, Anna of Byzantium, and the "Sherlock Files" series. Tracy lives with her family in Nashville. Read more at Chapter 16.

Panel: Saturday, 1:30-2:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Saturday, 2:30-3:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
Dark of the Moon
http://www.tracybarrett.com
T.A. Barron

grew up on a ranch in California and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He retired from a successful career as a venture capitalist to become a full-time writer. His young adult books have become beloved bestsellers. In addition, he writes extensively on nature and has received The Wilderness Society's highest honor, the Robert Marshall Award, for his efforts to protect America's wilderness heritage. He lives with his family in Colorado.

Presentation: Saturday, 12:00-1:00 pm, House Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
Merlin: The Book of Magic
http://www.tabarron.com
Madison Smartt Bell

is the author of fifteen previous works of fiction, including All Souls' Rising (a National Book Award finalist), Soldier's Joy and Anything Goes. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Goucher College. Read more at Chapter 16.

Presentation: Saturday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Senate Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
The Color of Night
http://www.webdelsol.com/msbell/
William Bernet

, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. He is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatrist Association and a fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Panel: Saturday, 3:30-4:30 pm, Room 31; Sign: Saturday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
Parental Alienation