Thursday, September 08, 2011

Texas Book Festival 2011

Official 2011 Festival Poster
It's finally that time of year again.  The Texas Book Festival, held in Austin every year since Laura Bush dreamed up the idea when she was still First Lady of Texas, is fast approaching.  This year's festival will, in fact, be held on October 22-23.  I missed out on the event last year because of a scheduling conflict, so I'm particularly looking forward to the 2011 version.

This is the list of announced author attendees (I haven't looked at it in detail yet but a few names have already jumped out at me):


2011 Festival Authors
Hugh Acheson
Monte Akers
Jill S. Alexander
Jessica Lee Anderson
Jay Asher
T. Lindsay Baker
Russell Banks
Mac Barnett
Michael Barson
Chris Barton
Austin Bay
Cynthia J. Beeman
Michael Berryhill
Frank Bill
Sarah Bird
Andy Borowitz
Jan Bozarth
H.W. Brands
Libba Bray
Karoline Patterson Bresenhan
Douglas Brinkley
Sam Brower
Alton Brown
Dominique Browning
Gesine Bullock-Prado
Marc Burckhardt
William S. Bush
Wendy Call
Ina Caro
Nell Casey
Susannah Charleson
Eileen Christelow
Marcia Clark
Roy Peter Clark
Rosemary Clement-Moore
Ernest Cline
Margaret Coel
Tyson Cole
Crystal Cook
Sarah Cortez
Doreen Cronin
Jeff Crosby
Brenda Cullerton
James Dashner
David Davis
Siddhartha Deb
Paula Deen
Sarah Dessen
Kate DiCamillo
Rick Dingus
Gerald Duff
David Eagleman
Arielle Eckstut
Bob Edwards
Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt
Will Erwin
James H. Evans
Lisa Fain
John A. Farrell
Steven Fenberg
William M. Fisher
Kathleen Flinn
Martha Hall Foose
Marla Frazee
Heather Vogel Frederick 
Doug Freeman
Susan Toomey Frost
Laura Furman
Jack Gantos
Kami Garcia
Amitav Ghosh
Adam Gidwitz
Dagoberto Gilb
Susannah Joel Glusker
Nina Godiwalla
David Goldfield
Jaimy Gordon
David Graeber
Don Graham
Keith Graves
Philippa Gregory
Ioan Grillo
Lev Grossman
Jeff Guinn
Gabrielle Hamilton
Butch Hancock
Chad Harbach
Stephen Harrigan
Thomas M. Hatfield
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Alan Hollinghurst
K.A. Holt
Ellen Hopkins
James D. Hornfischer
Kate Hosford
Steve Inskeep
Jane Isay
Sally H. Jacobs
Emily Jenkins
Craig Johnson
Mat Johnson
Donna Johnson
Mary Johnson
Hillary Jordan
Jonathan W. Jordan
William Joyce
Susie Kalil
Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Jordan Kaye
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Chuck Klosterman
Michelle Knudsen
Michael Koryta
Allen Kurzweil
Louis Lambert
Joe R. Lansdale
Jeanette Larson
Jillian Lauren
Preston Lauterbach
Chris Lehmann
Jim Lehrer
David Levithan
David Liss
Lisa Loeb
Sylvia Longmire
Rhonda Lashley Lopez
Jerome Loving
James Luna
Barry Lyga
Bruce Machart
Noel MacNeal
Adam Mansbach
Jeff Martin
Alberto A. Martinez
Sherry Matthews
Kathryn J. McGarr
Patrick McGilligan
Cameron McWhirter
Candice Millard
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Robert Morgan
Erin Morgenstern
Shelia P. Moses
Thomas Mullen
Hal Needham
Kadir Nelson
Jim Newton
Jennifer Niven
Michael O'Brien
Kevin O'Connor
Meghan O'Rourke
Kenneth Oppel
Susan Orlean
Chuck Palahniuk
Jan Peck
Richard Pells
James W. Pennebaker
Ruth Pennebaker
Tom Perrotta
Steven Petrow
Donald Ray Pollock
Sandy Pollock
Peggy Post
Austin Powell




Dana Priest
Alex Prud'homme
Nancy O'Bryant Puentes
Hugh Raffles
Kerry Reichs
Kathy Reichs
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
David Rice
James W. Riddlesperger, Jr.
Brent Ridge
Spelile Rivas
Artemio Rodriguez
Mary Romero
Michael J. Rosen
Karen Russell
Louis Sachar 
René Saldaña, Jr.
Barney Saltzberg
Alex Sanchez
Steven Saylor
Liz Garton Scanlon
Stacy Schiff
John R. Schmidt
Joe Schreiber
Casey Scieszka
Jon Scieszka
Elaine Scott
Molly Shannon
Bob Shea
Maurice Sherif
Judy Sierra
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Dominic Smith
Clete Barrett Smith
C.W. Smith
Dava Sobel
Divya Srinivasan
Rebecca Stead
Frederick Steiner
David Henry Sterry
Taylor Stevens
Margaret Stohl
David R. Stokes
Ellen Sweets
Edward Swift
Nancy Tillman
Héctor Tobar
Justin Torres
Sergio Troncoso
Deb Olin Unferth
Dan K. Utley
Michael Ventura
Amy Waldman
Jason Walker
Amanda Eyre Ward
Steven Weinberg
William C. Welch
Rosemary Wells
C.M. Wendelboe
Colson Whitehead
Jo Whittemore
John Whorff
Dorothy Wickenden
Chris Wiesinger
Andy Wilkinson
Juan Williams 
Virginia Willis
Daniel H. Wilson
Jenny Wingfield
Adam Winkler
Meg Wolitzer
Baron Wolman
Daniel Woodrell
Robin Wright
Lawrence Wright
Richard Yañez 
Charles Yu
Paul Zelinsky
Gwendolyn Zepeda
Jennifer Ziegler
James Zogby

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