2012 SFB Authors

is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to three other prizewinning novels, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; four collections of poems; and four collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he teaches at Western Carolina University.

Saturday, October 13
10:00-11:00 am, Legislative Plaza, Room 12
The Cove

2:30-3:30 pm, Nashville Public Library, Grand Reading Room
Soldier Home: Stories of War and Homecoming 
Ron Rash, Ben Fountain

*Note: This session originally included Daniel Woodrell, who regrets he is unable to attend. 

worked as a registered nurse for forty years before she wrote her first novel at the age of sixty. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband and her dog, Red. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Julie and Romeo, Julie and Romeo Get Lucky, Eat Cake, and Step-Ball-Change.

Friday, October 12
2:00-3:00 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 16
Seen & Unseen - Novels of Experiencing Womanhood
Jeanne Ray, Charity Shumway

is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he was director of the Howard Odum Institute for Research in Social Science for twelve years and helped to found the university's Center for the Study of the American South. He has written or edited eighteen books, four of them with his wife, Dale Volberg Reed.

Sunday, October 14
2:30-3:30 pm, Legislative Plaza, Room 12
Growing the Crescent City: The History of New Orleans
Lawrence Powell, John Shelton Reed

joined the Tennessean in 1974 as the first female photographer in  the newspaper’s history and continued her work there for nearly thirty years. Rhoda has won the National Press Photographers’ “Pictures of the Year” contest, a National Headliner Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She also became the first woman photojournalist to receive a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Rhoda served as the photo editor for the book Nashville: An American Self-Portrait.

Saturday, October 13
11:00-12:00 pm, Nashville Public Library, Special Collections Room
Home to Us: Six Stories of Saving the Land
John Egerton, Nancy Rhoda, Varina Willse