Festival of the Book: Participants’ Brief Bios

More information on these authors appears on vabook.org. Times after entries refer to appearances/events in the Wednesday-Sunday schedule grids or in Related Events. ‘School visits’ and ‘StoryFest’ designations refer to events in the Youth Section.

Henry Abraham, Ph.D., is the author of Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States. A renowned Constitutional scholar, he has authored 11 additional books and is the winner of the 2007 DAR Americanism Medal. He is James Hart Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at UVa. 3/29 2 p.m.

Jennifer Ackerman is the author Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body. She writes for National Geographic magazine and the New York Times and is the author of two previous books. 3/28 10 a.m.

Kenneth Ackerman is the author of Young J. Edgar; Boss Tweed; Dark Horse; and The Gold Ring. He served for over 25 years in senior posts on Capitol Hill and in the executive branch. He practices law in Washington, D.C. 3/27 2 p.m.

Kenneth Adams, Chief of the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, coordinated a number of public programs during the Jamestown 2007 commemoration. He is Director of United Indians of Virginia and sits on the board of Bacone College, an Oklahoma school formerly attended by many Virginia Indian students. 3/30 1:30 p.m.

Stacy Hawkins Adams is the author of Watercolored Pearls, Speak To My Heart and Nothing But the Right Thing. She is also a freelance journalist, who writes parenting columns for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and for Gov. Timothy Kaine’s Smart Beginnings initiative. 3/29 Noon

Dan Albergotti’s first full-length collection, The Boatloads, won the 2007 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. He teaches at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. 3/30 1:30 p.m.

Arlene Alda, author of Here a Face, There A Face and Did You Say Pears?, matches her photography with clever text, inspiring children to see art in everyday objects. She lives in New York. School visits and StoryFest

Tasha Alexander is the author of three historical suspense novels as well as Elizabeth: The Golden Age. She attended the University of Notre Dame and became an English major to have a legitimate excuse to spend all her time reading. 3/29 2 p.m.

Paul Alkebulan, author of Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party, is a former member of the Black Panther Party. He is an assistant Professor of History at Virginia State University. 3/28 10 a.m.

Anna Alter is the author and illustrator of several children’s books, including Francine’s Day and The Purple Ribbon. A Charlottesville native, Anna now calls Boston home. School visits

John Amos teaches English at St. Anne’s Belfield in Charlottesville. He is a graduate of UVa and a resident of the town of Orange. His essays appear regularly in the Orange County Review and the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star. 3/26 Noon

Nin Andrews is the editor of a book of translations, Someone Wants to Steal My Name. She is also the author of several poetry books, including Sleeping with Houdini, Midlife Crisis with Dick and Jane, and Why They Grow Wings. 3/28 Noon; 3/29 10 a.m.

Taylor Antrim, author of The Headmaster Ritual, is a Senior editor at ForbesLife and a regular contributor to Vogue. A graduate of Stanford University and Oxford, he earned his M.F.A. from UVa, where he held the Poe-Faulkner Fellowship. 3/27 4 p.m.

Joseph Awad served as Poet Laureate of Virginia from 1998 to 2000. His books include The Neon Distances, Shenandoah Long Ago, The Big Bang, Leaning to Hear the Music, and Late into the Night. 3/27 2 p.m.

Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus, was born in Winchester, Virginia. After 40 years as a reporter, and magazine editor, he now writes books and runs the American Expatriate Cocktail Research Station in Belize, Central America. 3/28 Noon; 3/29 2 p.m.

Jeremy D. Bailey, author of Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power, is an assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Houston, where he also teaches in the Honors College. 3/26 2 p.m.

Dawn Bailiff, author of Notes from a Minor Key: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Healing, was a concert pianist hailed by Leonard Bernstein for her artistry. She has become a translator, professor, disability advocate, and author since her diagnosis of MS. 3/29 10 a.m.

Aaron Baker is the author of Mission Work, winner of the 2007 Bakeless Prize in Poetry. A UVa alumnus and former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University, he teaches literature and creative writing at Hollins University. 3/27 4 p.m.

John Baldwin, whose book, Last Flag Down, has been nominated for a Pulitzer Price, is a former Charlottesville resident, and nephew of late UVa Professor Whittle Johnston - namesake of the Civil War Hero Lt. Conway Whittle the book’s central character. 3/27 6 p.m.

Ed Barber was college and trade department director at W.W. Norton & Company for 20 years before becoming a senior editor in 1994. With Norton, he has acquired and edited books by Richard Feynman, Stephen Jay Gould, Jane Brody and Sen. Robert Byrd. 3/29 10 a.m.

Virginia Barber opened her literary agency in 1974. She represented such authors as Rosellen Brown, Sue Monk Kidd, Peter Mayle, Alice Munro, Anne Rivers Siddons and Anita Shreve. In 2001, she sold her agency to the William Morris Agency; she is now an Editor-at-Large for Grove-Atlantic. 3/29 10 a.m.

Brooks Miles Barnes, author of The Gallows on the Marsh: Crime and Punishment on the Chesapeake, 1906, is Director of Information Services at the Eastern Shore Public Library, Accomac, Virginia. He is a member of the Board of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. 3/27 2 p.m.

Anne B. Barriault, author of Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007, has a Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art from UVa. She is a writer-editor with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation and director of Art on the Air, VMFA’s public radio modules. 3/26 Noon

Dan Barry is the author of City Lights, a collection of his New York Times columns, and Pull Me Up, about his Irish-American upbringing, his start in journalism and his struggle with cancer. He writes a column for the Times called “This Land.“ 3/26 6 p.m.

Neal Bascomb is the author of Red Mutiny as well as The Perfect Mile, a New York Times bestseller. A former editor and journalist, he is at work on a narrative history of the capture of Adolf Eichmann. He also writes occasionally for the New York Times. 3/27 4 p.m.

David Bearinger is Director of Grants and Public Programs at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. His work with Virginia tribes spans more than 20 years, and his advocacy was instrumental in creating the Virginia Indian Heritage Program at the VFH in 2007. 3/30 1:30 p.m.

Michael Bednar is Professor of Architecture at UVa. He is author of The New Atrium and Interior Pedestrian Places. His book, L’Enfant’s Legacy, analyzes the evolution of public space in Washington, D.C., after the L’Enfant plan in 1791. 3/26 2 p.m.

Sindy Benavides is the Director of Gubernatorial Appointments and Latino Liaison for the Commonwealth of Virginia. She immigrated with her family to the United States when she was one and began to learn English in third grade while in ESL 3/29 Noon

Leah Bendavid-Val, author of Song Without Words:The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy, has curated photography exhibitions for the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) and the Pushkin Museum (Moscow). She is Director of Photography Publishing for National Geographic Books. 3/28 2 p.m.

Rosalyn Berne is the author of Nanotalk: Conversations with Research Scientists and Engineers about Ethics, Meaning and Belief in the Development of Nanotechnology. She has just completed a nano-science fictional novel, Waiting in the Silence. Berne teaches engineering ethics at UVa. 3/30 3:30 p.m.

Paul Bibeau’s Sundays with Vlad grew from a life-long fascination with vampires, including a childhood fright from his sister and his trip to Transylvania. He’s also written for Maxim, Mademoiselle, the Washington Post, and the New York Observer. 3/28 6 p.m.

Sandow Birk’s “Depravities of War,“ 15 large-scale woodcut prints on sekishu paper following the course of the Iraq war, exhibited at Second Street Gallery. His work has dealt with contemporary social issues. Awards include NEA, Guggenheim, Getty, and Fulbright fellowships. 3/28 6 p.m.

Cara Black is the author of the bestselling Aimée Leduc Investigations set in Paris. Her latest, Murder in the rue de Paradis, is the eighth in the series. 3/29 10 a.m.

H. Emerson Blake, (ed.The Future of Nature: Writing on a Human Ecology) is editor-in-chief at Orion Magazine and executive director of the Orion Society. He is an ecologist and former editor at Milkweed Editions, and has judged the SELC Reed Awards. 3/28 2 p.m.

Hanne Blank, author of Virgin: The Untouched History, is a writer, editor, speaker, historian, and former Scholar of the Institute for Teaching and research on Women at Towson University, Maryland. Virgin is her sixth book. 3/28 6 p.m.

Marc Bloom, author of God on the Starting Line, is former editor-in-chief of The Runner magazine, a senior contributor to Runner’s World, and a features writer specializing in running and fitness for the New York Times. He is the author of eight books. 3/27 4 p.m., 7 p.m.

Mozelle Booker is a former elementary school principal in the Charlottesville City School system. She now assists Fluvanna County Schools as Family and School Coordinator. 3/26 5:30 p.m.

James O. Born is the author of five novels including Burn Zone, Field of Fire, and Walking Money. A former U.S. Drug Agent, he recently won the best novel gold medal in the inaugural Florida Book award. 3/29 4 p.m.

Joanna Bourne, author of The Spymaster’s Lady, writes historical romances, set in England and France during the Napoleonic Wars, a time of international intrigue, fierce idealism and passionate conviction. 3/26 8 p.m.

Terry Bouton, Associate Professor of History at UMBC, authored Taming Democracy: “The People,“ The Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution, which explores the conflict between the Founding Fathers and ordinary Americans over the meaning and practice of democracy. 3/29 10 a.m.

Virginia Boyd, author of One Fell Swoop, lives in Durham, North Carolina. A Duke graduate, she earned a master’s in English at North Carolina State University under the direction of Lee Smith. She teaches workshops for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke. 3/26 4 p.m.

Kevin Boyle grew up in Philadelphia and now lives in North Carolina with his wife and two daughters. His first book, A Home for Wayward Girls, won the New Issues Poetry Prize, judged by Rodney Jones. 3/30 1:30 p.m.

Adam Bradley is an assistant professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College. He is co-editor of The Collected Manuscripts of Ralph Ellison’s Unpublished Second Novel, with Ellison’s literary executor John Callahan. He is the author of Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop. 3/28 Noon, 8 p.m.; 3/29 Noon

Carleen Brice is the author of Orange Mint and Honey, a mother-daughter novel. Author of several nonfiction books, she lives in Denver, where she and her musician husband have created a water-wise garden. 3/28 2 p.m.; 3/29 Noon

Michael Jacoby Brown, author of Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World, has worked as a community organizer, trainer, and consultant for numerous community, labor, religious, government, and health organizations. 3/28 6 p.m.

Nickole Brown’s books include Sister: Poems and the anthology, Air Fare (co-edited with Judith Taylor). She graduated from Vermont College and was the editorial assistant for Hunter S. Thompson. She works at Sarabande Books in Louisville. 3/29 Noon; 3/30 1:30 p.m.

Carolyn Hale Bruce and Charles Randolph Bruce are from the mountains of southwestern Virginia. They have written, illustrated and published three Rebel King novels about Robert the Bruce, King of Scots and a regional book, Virginiana. Carolyn has written two pictorial histories. 3/29 10 a.m.

Charles Randolph Bruce and his wife Carolyn Hale Bruce are from the mountains of southwestern Virginia. They have written, illustrated, and published three Rebel King novels about Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, and a regional book, Virginiana. 3/29 10 a.m.

Robert F. Bruner, co-author of The Panic of 1907, is Dean of UVa’s Darden School. He has been a visiting professor at Columbia, INSEAD and IESE. He graduated from Yale, and has his M.B.A. and D.B.A. from Harvard University. 3/27 2 p.m.

Sharon Bryant grew up in the Monacan community at Bear Mountain. She serves on the Tribal Council and on the Vestry of St. Paul’s Epsicopal Church. She has produced Reclaiming Our Heritage: The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia, a video documentary. 3/29 4 p.m.

Mecca Burns is a Registered/Board-Certified Drama Therapist, working with children with developmental and emotional issues. She is a director and founder of Presence Center for Applied Theater Arts, which uses theatre to address social justice issues. School visits

Mary Burton is the author of the suspence romance, I’m Watching You, set in Central Virginia, and 15 other novels including 11 western historicals and four short romantic suspenses, most recently, Cold Case Cop. 3/26 8 p.m.

Austin Camacho is the author of the Hannibal Jones mystery series including Blood and Bone, Collateral Damage, The Troubleshooter, and Damaged Goods. He also writes the Stark and O’Brien Adventures and teaches writing at Anne Arundel Community College 3/29 4 p.m.

Burrus M. Carnahan, author of Act of Justice: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War (an alternate selection for the History Book Club), is a professorial lecturer at George Washington University Law School and a foreign affairs officer in the U.S. Department of State. 3/27 8 p.m.

Bogdana Carpenter is Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Her translation, with John Carpenter, of Julia Hartwig’s In Praise of the Unfinished was recently published by Random House. 3/28 Noon

John Carpenter is a poet and literary critic, author of Creating the World and a study of the literature of WWII. Among translations the Carpenters have done as a team are seven volumes of poetry and prose by Zbigniew Herbert. 3/28 Noon

H. G. Carrillo, a contributor to How I Learned English, is the author of the novel, Loosing My Espanish. His short stories have appeared in Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, Glimmer Train, and others. He teaches at The George Washington University. 3/28 6 p.m.; 3/29 Noon

Nell Casey is the editor of An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family and the national bestseller, Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression. She has been published in the New York Times, Slate, Salon and Elle. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son. 3/29 10 a.m.

Scott E. Casper, author of Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon, is the 1999 winner of the Book History Prize from the society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Casper is a professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. 3/27 10 a.m., Noon

Daniel Cassidy’s book, How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroad, received the American Book Award in 2007. He is a professor at New College of California in San Francisco. 3/26 6 p.m.

Randy Cepuch’s humorous business travelogue, A Weekend with Warren Buffet and Other Shareholder Meeting Adventures, is his first book. A Virginia resident, he writes mutual fund reports aimed at helping investors worldwide. 3/26 Noon

Lauren Cerand is an independent public relations representative and consultant in New York. Her clients are a purposefully eclectic mix of creative professionals and organizations, and she specializes in generating initial buzz and building sustained attention for projects and individuals. 3/29 Noon

Jennifer Chang, author of The History of Anonymity, has published poems in the Boston Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, New Republic, Shenandoah, and other publications. She co-chairs the advisory board member of Kundiman, a nonprofit organization for Asian American poetry. 3/28 Noon

Pauline W. Chen is a surgeon whose writing has appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review and the New York Times, among others. Her critically acclaimed first book, Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality, was a New York Times bestseller. 3/26 12:30 p.m.

Avery Chenoweth’s second collaboration with photographer Robert Llewellyn is Empires in the Forest: Jamestown and the Beginning of America, which won three national awards. Albemarle: A Story of Landscape and American Identity, won five national awards. Chenoweth wrote Wingtips, a Library of Virginia Literary Award fiction finalist. 3/27 Noon

Alan Cheuse is the author of The Fires. He is also a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,“ and teaches in the Writing Program at George Mason University and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. 3/28 4 p.m.

Casey Clabough is the author of The Warrior’s Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Route and a study of George Garrett’s work. Literature section editor for the VFH Encyclopedia Virginia, he is the English Graduate Coordinator at Lynchburg College and a former VFH research fellow. 3/27 8 p.m.; 3/28 4 p.m.

Ginjer Clarke specializes in writing nonfiction children’s books about animals, especially extreme or unusual animals. She lives in Virginia. School visits

Anita H. Clayton, M.D., is the author of Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy. She is the David C. Wilson Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and Clinical Professor of Ob-Gyn at UVa, where she does research, teaches, and sees patients. 3/28 Noon

William Cleveland is the author of Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World’s Frontlines and Art in Other Places. He is an activist, teacher, facilitator, lecturer, and director of the Center for the Study of Art & Community in Washington state. 3/28 6 p.m.

David B. Coe is the William L. Crawford award-winning author of nine fantasy novels. His latest work, The Sorcerers’ Plague, is the first volume of a new trilogy called Blood of the Southlands. His novels have been translated into 6 languages. 3/28 6 p.m.

Margaret Coel is the Willa Cather Award-winning author of The Spirit Woman and The Drowning Man, among other works of mystery and nonfiction. Originally a historian, she is an expert on the Arapaho Indians. 3/28 8 p.m.; 3/29 10 a.m.

Jeffrey Cohen is a freelance writer, screenwriter and author of two mystery series, the Double Feature Mysteries and the Aaron Tucker Mysteries. His latest book is Some Like It Hot-Buttered: A Double Feature Mystery. 3/27 6:30 p.m.; 3/29 4 p.m.

David Coleman is Program Chair of the Presidential Recordings Program at the Miller Center, UVa where he works on the JFK, LBJ, and Nixon tapes and heads up the Program’s digital efforts. 3/28 10 a.m.

James Collins, author of Beginner’s Greek, writes for The New Yorker and has been an editor at both Time and Spy magazines. He lives in Orange County, Virginia, with his family. 3/26 6 p.m.; 3/27 Noon

Jean L. Cooper, author of A Guide to Historic Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia, unites her lifelong interest in local and family history, her love of travel, and her academic experience as she shares her fascination with history with her readers. 3/28 2 p.m.

Cynthia Cotten’s books of fiction and poetry for children have been included on many notable lists. her most recent titles include Abbie in Stitches and This is the Stable (picture books), and Fair Has Nothing To Do With It (middle-grade novel). 3/29 4 p.m.

Randall Couch translated and edited the bilingual edition Madwomen: The “Locas mujeres” Poems of Gabriela Mistral. Recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship, his poems have been anthologized in Best New Poets of 2005. 3/29 10 a.m.

Martine Coutier, author of the Dictionary of the Language of Wine, is retired from France’s prestigious CNRS. A specialist in the history of French vocabulary, she lives in Charlottesville’s sister city, Besancon, where she is president of the Franche-Comte Book and Author Association. 3/28 8 p.m.

Alan Pell Crawford is the author of Twilight at Monticello, the first narrative history of Thomas Jefferson’s retirement years. His previous book, Unwise Passions, was about the Randolph Scandal of 1792 and was called “an unbeatable tale” by the Wall Street Journal. 3/26 2 p.m.

Craig Crawford is the author of two books, Attack the Messenger and The Politics of Life. He can be seen daily on NBC and MSNBC television and also writes a weekly column called “White House Trail Mix” for Congressional Quarterly. 3/29 2 p.m.

Ellen Crosby’s novels, The Chardonnay Charade and The Merlot Murders, are set in Virginia wine country. She has worked as a freelance reporter for the Washington Post and as Moscow correspondent for ABC News Radio. 3/29 2 p.m.

Roberta Culbertson, Director of the Center on Violence and Community at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from UVa. She is the edits and publishes the Tough Times Companion. 3/27 10 a.m.

Linwood “Little Bear” Custalow, co-author of The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History from the Sacred History of the Mattaponi Reservation People, is the Mattaponi Tribal Historian. 3/26 6 p.m.

Angela “Silver Star” Daniel co-authored The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History with Dr. Linwood “Little Bear” Custalow. A UVa alumna, she is working on her Ph.D. at the College of William and Mary. 3/26 6 p.m.

Kyle Dargan is managing editor of Callaloo and a member of the creative writing faculty at American University. His debut, The Listening, won the 2003 Cave Canem Prize. Bouquet of Hungers is his second poetry collection. 3/27 6 p.m.

Peter David has published over 70 novels and over 1,000 comics and graphic novels, including numerous appearances on the New York Times Bestsellers List. His works include Mascot to the Rescue, Tigerheart, Sir Apropos of Nothing, and the Psi-Man adventure series. 3/29 Noon

Joe Davidson is a Washington Post editor and a National Association of Black Journalists founder. He has been a Wall Street Journal reporter, an NPR commentator, and a Poynter Ethics Fellow. He is a contributor to Being a Black Man, which won a Peabody Award. 3/28 8 p.m.

Kay M. Davidson, Ph.D., is a contributor to Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University and has been a writer for various Virginia Museum of Fine Arts projects and is active in their docent program. 3/26 Noon

Jill A. Davis is the author of two New York Times best-selling novels: Ask Again Later and Girls’ Poker Night. She was nominated for six Emmy Awards as a writer for David Letterman. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. 3/27 Noon, 8 p.m.

Ben Deitle’s work is “Applications of Bibliographic Methods for Tibetan Books.“ He is a graduate student in Tibetan and Chinese religions at UVa. 3/28 4 p.m.

Wendy DeVere-Austin is the author of the novels Leave the Killing to Me and Dead on Cue. Born in Bath, England, she graduated from Exeter University and modeled for Chanel before entering the film industry in the 1970s. She lives in Virginia. 3/26 4 p.m.

Maureen Dezell is a veteran Boston journalist and author of the critically acclaimed Irish America: Coming into Clover. A former Boston Globe reporter, she is now and independent writer, who teaches journalism at Emerson College. 3/26 6 p.m.

Stuart Dischell is the author of Backwards Days, Good Hope Road (a 1991 National Poetry Series Selection), and Dig Safe. A grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, he teaches in the M.F.A. writing program at Greensboro. 3/27 8 p.m.

David A. Doheny, author of the biography, David Finley, Quiet Force for America’s Arts, is a former general counsel for the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C. 3/28 10 a.m.

Colleen Doran is an illustrator and author of numerous graphic novels and comic books. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution. She is working on five new projects for Marvel, DC, HarperCollins, Archie and Image. 3/29 Noon

Johanna Drucker, author of Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity, has published and lectured extensively on topics related to the history of typography, artists’ books, and visual art. She is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at UVa and advises Artists’ Books Online. 3/30 Noon

Martha Tod Dudman is the author of two memoirs, Augusta, Gone (which was made into a Lifetime Television movie) and Expecting to Fly. Black Olives is her first novel. She lives in Maine. 3/28 4 p.m.

Gerald Duff is the author of the Fire Ants, a short story collection and Coasters, a novel. He is Provost and Dean of the College of McKendree University. 3/28 Noon

Tony Dunbar is the author of Tubby Meets Katrina, the seventh in a series of New Orleans mystery novels. An attorney, he also wrote Against the Grain: Southern Radicals and Prophets. 3/28 Noon; 3/29 10 a.m.

Evelyn Edson, author of The World Map, 1300-1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation, is Professor Emerita of history at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville. This is her third book on medieval maps and geography. 3/27 7 p.m.

Norbert Ehrenfreund, author of The Nuremburg Legacy: How the Nazi War Crimes Trials Changed the Course of History, drew on his experiences as a young reporter at the Nuremberg trials. Now officially retired, he is still active as a superior court judge. 3/26 4 p.m.

Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren is a former print journalist. Her children’s fiction has appeared in Highlights for Children, Ladybug, and Spider magazines. Her book, Josias Hold the Book, has received the 2007 Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. 3/26 4 p.m.; School visits

Claudia Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife. She is the author of two other poetry books, Pharaoh, Pharaoh and Pinion: An Elegy. She is a professor of English at the University of Mary Washington. 3/29 4 p.m.

Nathan Englander, author of the novel The Ministry of Special Cases, first won acclaim for his short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. selected as one of “20 Writers for the 21st Century” by the New Yorker, he lives in New York. 3/26 8 p.m.

T. J. English, author of Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster, is a journalist, screenwriter, and author of three other books, including The Westies: Inside New York’s Irish Mob. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Playboy, and New York magazine. 3/26 6 p.m.

Marc Estrin is the author of The Lamentations of Julius Marantz; Insect Dreams; The Education of Arnold Hitler; Golem Song; Tsim-Tsum; and Rehearsing with Gods, an award-winning memoir of his 35 years with the Bread & Puppet Theater. 3/29 2 p.m.

Mark Ethridge’s first novel is Grievances. A third-generation reporter,he directed the Charlotte Observer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigations of the textile industry and the PTL scandal involving Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. Ethridge publishes parenting magazines and consults for a NASCAR fan magazine. 3/28 10 a.m.

Jonathan M. Evans, M.D., is associate professor of medicine at the UVa School of Medicine. A strong advocate for improved long- term-care in the community, he is a nationally recognized expert on geriatrics and palliative care. 3/26 2 p.m.

Justin Evans, is author of A Good and Happy Child. He grew up in Lexington, Virginia, and has degrees in English and business. Once a film scout for Paramount, he is now a strategy executive in New York, where he lives with his family. 3/28 8 p.m.

Robert Marston Fannéy is the author of Luthiel’s Song: Dreams of the Ringed Vale—the first part of an epic fantasy whose protagonist is a 15-year-old girl with a magical gift. He is at work on the second Luthiel’s Song book, The War of Mists. 3/29 10 a.m.

Stephen J. Farnsworth, Ph.D., is associate professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington. Author of three books, including The Nightly News Nightmare, he was for a year the Fulbright Research Chair in Public Policy at McGill University. 3/28 2 p.m.

Mike Farrell, author of Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist, is best known for his television acting on M*A*S*H and Providence. A writer, director, producer, he is also a social activist for human rights and against the death penalty. 3/29 8 p.m.

Steven Faulkner’s memoir, Waterwalk: A Passage of Ghosts, is a based on his thousand-mile canoe journey with his 16-year-old son from St. Ignace, on Lake Michigan, across Wisconsin and down the Mississippi River to St. Louis, the route of Joliet and Marquette. 3/27 8 p.m.

Frank Ferguson is the editor of Ulster-Scots Writing, An Anthology. He will discuss the concept of Ulster-Scots literature and language and its place within Irish, British and American literature. 3/28 10 a.m.

PC Fleming, whose work is “Peter Parley: Changes in Text and Object,“ is a graduate student at the University of Virginia. 3/28 4 p.m.

Ken Foster is the author of The Dogs Who Found Me and the essay collection Dogs I Have Met: And the People They Found. His work has appeared in Salon, McSweeney’s, The Believer, bark, the New York Times, and other publications. He lives in New Orleans. 3/28 Noon

Therese Fowler grew up in Illinois. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing and now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband and two sons. Souvenir is her debut novel. 3/26 4 p.m.; 3/27 Noon

Anne Hobson Freeman, editor of Mary Lee Settle’s Learning to Fly: A Writer’s Memoir, has published biographies in The Style of a Law Firm: Eight Gentlemen from Virginia and short fiction in the Virginia Quarterly Review and Best American Short Stories. 3/28 2 p.m.

Susan Freinkel, author of American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree, writes about science and medicine. Her work has appeared in Discover, Smithsonian, Reader’s Digest, the New York Times, and other national publications. She lives in San Francisco. 3/28 10 a.m., Noon

Jim Gable, a former executive at Apple Computer and co-founder of Kerbango, an Internet radio start-up, worked with the Amazon product team that created Kindle, the new electronic book reader. Jim is now a consultant living in northern Virginia. 3/30 Noon

Glenn Gaesser, UVa Director of Kinesiology, is author of Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight & Your Health, and The Spark: The Revolutionary New Plan to Get Fit & Lose Weight 10 Minutes at a Time. 3/28 4 p.m.

Jenny Gardiner’s debut humorous novel is Sleeping with Ward Cleaver. Her work has appeared in Ladies Home Journal, the Washington Post and on NPR’s Day to Day. She honed her fiction writing skills working as a publicist for a US Senator. 3/26 6 p.m.

George Garrett, author of Days of Our Lives Lie in Fragments, is the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing Emeritus at UVa. Author of 32 books and editor or co-author of 19 others, he served as Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2004. 3/27 2 p.m.

Jennifer Geddes, editor of Evil After Postmodernism, is research associate professor of Religious Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at UVa and editor of The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture. 3/27 8 p.m.

Kent B. Germany is the author of New Orleans After the Promises. He is Assistant Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of South Carolina and was the co-editor of The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power. 3/28 10 a.m.

Margaret Gibson is the author of The Prodigal Daughter: Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood and nine books of poetry, including One Body, The Vigil (finalist, National Book Award), Memories of the Future (Melville Cane Award) and Long Walks in the Afternoon (Lamont Selection). 3/27 Noon; 3/28 4 p.m.

Mike Gilbert wrote The Switch Effect: A Real-Life Example of How to Become an Entrepreneur to show how he created a carbonated 100% juice beverage and then the company to market it. 3/26 Noon

William Gladstone is the founder of Waterside Productions Inc., a literary agency that has placed thousands of works with major and regional publishers over the last 25 years. His personal successes include the For Dummies…. book series and Oprah book club selection A New Earth. 3/29 4 p.m.

Francisco Goldman is the author of The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? about the political murder of Guatemalen Bishop Juan Gerardi. His novels include The Divine Husband, The Long Night of White Chickens, and The Ordinary Seaman. 3/26 6 p.m.

Risa L. Goluboff, author of The Lost Promise of Civil Rights, is professor of law and history at UVa. 3/28 4 p.m.

Elizabeth Gregory, author of Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood, is the director of the Women’s Studies program at the University of Houston. 3/28 Noon

Nicholas Griffin is the author of four novels and one work of nonfiction. His latest book, set in New York in 1916, is Dizzy City. 3/28 2 p.m.; 3/29 4 p.m.

David Griffith is the author of A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in the Utne Reader, Image and Killing the Buddha, among other publications. 3/28 6 p.m.

Vigen Guroian, author of ten books including, Tending the Heart of Virtue, is professor of theology at Loyola College, Baltimore. Vigen is an Orthodox Christian lecturer with an ecumenical perpective; he is also a master gardener. 3/26 4 p.m.

Jonathan Haidt, UVa professor, is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis, Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, the co-editor of Flourishing: Positive Psychology and The Life Well-Lived, the 2001 Templeton Grand Prize winner. He is a leading authority on positive psychology. 3/28 4 p.m.

James W. Hall, Hell’s Bay, is the author of 14 novels that have been translated into numerous languages and optioned for a number of films. He has also written poetry, short stories, and essays. He teaches literature and creative writing at Florida International University. 3/28 8 p.m.; 3/29 10 a.m.

Barbara Hamby’s Babel, won the 2003 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Her first book, Delirium, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.The New York Public Library named her second book, The Alphabet of Desire, among the 25 best books of 1999. 3/27 8 p.m.

Kendra Hamilton’s first collection of poetry is The Goddess of Gumbo. She is an M.F.A. poetry graduate of Louisiana State University and published in Callaloo, Southern Review, Shenandoah, River Styx, and anthologized in The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, and Letters from the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv. 3/26 6 p.m.

Jeffrey Hantman is an associate professor of Anthropology at UVa. He has studied numerous pre-contact archaeological sites of the Monacan Indians, and his work illuminates relations between Indians and English in the early colonial period. 3/30 1:30 p.m.

Steven J. Harper is the author of Crossing Hoffa: A Teamster’s Story and Straddling Worlds: The Jewish-American Journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold. He joined Kirkland & Ellis LLP after graduating from Harvard Law School and Northwestern University. 3/26 4 p.m.; 3/27 2 p.m.

Rosemary Harris’ debut, Pushing Up Daisies, is the first in St. Martin’s Dirty Business Mystery series. Born in Brooklyn, NY, she is a former video producer and bookstore manager. She is also a Connecticut master gardener. 3/29 4 p.m.

Robert Hatta, Director of Strategic Development for Findaway World (Playaway), has spent 10 years in digital content, wireless technology, and entertainment marketing. Formerly, he launched iTunes’ gift cards into Europe, led campaigns for Netflix, and launched products and services for Virgin Mobile USA. 3/30 Noon

Ron Heinemann, co-author of Old Dominion, New Commonwealth: A History of Virginia, 1607-2007, is professor emeritus of history at Hampton-Sydney College. He is a member of the Board of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. 3/30 1:30 p.m.

Willetta L. Heising is the author and publisher of the award-winning reader’s guides Detecting Women and Detecting Men from Purple Moon Press, which will publish a 4th edition of Detecting Women later this year. She lives in Dearborn, Michigan. 3/28 8 p.m.; 3/29 2 p.m.

Libby Fischer Hellmann, whose latest novel is Easy Innocence, is an award-winning crime fiction author. Originally from Washington DC, Libby now lives in Chicago and finds the contrast between the beautiful and the profane in that city a crime writer’s paradise. 3/29 4 p.m.

Shri Henkel, author of 365 Foolish Mistakes Smart Managers Make, is a non-fiction author who has released four business and restaurant books. In addition, she has five novels and an author promotion book in print under her pen name, Nikki Leigh. 3/26 Noon, 4 p.m.

Joshua Henkin’s new novel, Matrimony, is a Booksense pick, a Borders Original Voices pick, and a New York Times Notable Book. His first novel, Swimming Across the Hudson, was a Los Angeles Times Notable Book. 3/26 6 p.m.

Barbara Heritage’s work is “Coy Cranford?: The Hidden Life of Macmillan’s 1891 Edition, Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.“ She is pursuing a Ph.D. in the UVa English Department. 3/28 4 p.m.

Homer Hickam’s Red Helmet, a romantic novel of Appalachian coal mining, is the latest novel from the author of the acclaimed memoir Rocket Boys, which was made into the film October Sky. He is also the author of ten books, all best-sellers. 3/27 8 p.m.

Lisa C. Hickman, author of William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers, holds a Ph.D. in Southern Literature. She has written for The Southern Quarterly, Memphis Magazine, Mississippi Writers Page, Housman Society Journal and Teaching Faulkner. 3/28 2 p.m.

Sheridan Hill attended her mother’s charm school despite being 15 lbs overweight. A Southern biographer with a flair for dialogue, her book, My Name As a Prayer, brings humor and clarity to end-of-life issues. 3/29 10 a.m.

Susan Tyler Hitchcock’s lucky 13th book is Frankenstein: A Cultural History. She is a nonfiction book author and editor specializing in cultural, literary, and natural history. She lives in Covesville, Virginia. 3/26 Noon; 3/28 6 p.m.

James Hoch is the author of Miscreants. His poems have appeared in Slate, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg and Virginia Quarterly Review. In 2007 he received an NEA fellowship. He teaches at Ramapo College of NJ and resides in Nyack, NY. 3/27 6 p.m.

Wesley C. Hogan, author of Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America, is Assistant Professor of History and Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Race Relations at Virginia State University. 3/28 10 a.m.

Cary Holladay, The Quick Change Artist: Stories, also wrote a novel, Mercury, and two short story collections, The People Down South and The Palace of Wasted Footsteps. Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an O. Henry Prize. 3/28 Noon

Tulley Holland’s first novel is Moneybags. He served in the U.S. Army, was an executive with O’Sullivan Corporation for more than 20 years, last serving as President and CEO. He and his wife Susan reside in Winchester, Virginia, where he writes and does consulting. 3/26 4 p.m.

Jinks Holton is a former First Lady of Virginia. She is hosting the Authors’ Reception with her husband Governor Linwood Holton and her son Woody Holton. 3/29 6 p.m.

A. Linwood Holton, author of the memoir Opportunity Time, was Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1970-1974, a critical period in school desegregation. He practices law as a shareholder of McCandlish Holton, P.C. 3/29 6 p.m.; 3/30 1:30 p.m.

Woody Holton, author of Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Richmond. His last book, Forced Founders, was an award winning look at the American Revolution in Virginia. 3/29 6 p.m.; 3/29 10 a.m.

Evans D. Hopkins, author of Life After Life: A Story of Rage and Redemption, wrote for the Black Panther newspaper. While serving a life sentence for armed robbery, he channeled his rage into writing. He founded the Reclamation Movement. 3/27 Noon; 3/29 Noon

Keith Howard, whose work is “A Translator’s Italian Edition of Machiavelli’s Discorsi Sopra la Prima deca di Tito Livio,“ is a graduate student at UVa. 3/28 4 p.m.

Dallas Hudgens is the author of the novels Drive Like Hell and Season of Gene. He has contributed to The Washington Post and online at FANZINE. he lives in Virginia with his wife and two sons. 3/28 2 p.m.

Jack Hurst, author of Men of Fire, is a native of East Tennessee and a longtime journalist, having worked for many years on the staffs of the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Nashville Tennessean. His forebears are both Union and Confederate. 3/27 6 p.m.

David Ignatius, author of Body of Lies and five other novels, is currently associate editor and columnist for the Washington Post. He also co-hosts PostGlobal, an online discussion of international issues at Washingtonpost.com with Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria. 3/28 8 p.m.; 3/29 Noon

A.J. Jacobs’s latest book is The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible. A senior editor at Esquire magazine and an NPR contributor, he also wrote The Know-It-All. 3/29 2 p.m.

Paul Jacobs and Jennifer Swender are a husband-and-wife writing team known for their lively and interactive children’s programs. Their new book is NASCAR ABCs. Last year, Deaf Musicians won the Schneider Family Book Award from the American Library Association. School visits; StoryFest

Abigail Norfleet James’ Teaching the Male Brain combines neuroscience research and years of classroom experience. James has taught boys for many years in local schools, and the practical suggestions offered in her book will be useful for teachers and parents alike. 3/26 6 p.m.

John C. Jeffries, is the author of Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. and co-author of Civil Rights Actions: Enforcing the Constitution, among others. He argued the case of Rosenberger v. UVa before U.S. Supreme Court and is currently the Dean of the UVa School of Law. 3/29 2 p.m.

Patricia Johnson (Devi Veenanand) is a co-author of the book Tantra for Erotic Empowerment: The Key to Enriching Your Sexual Life and is a teacher of Tantra in Metropolitan New York, nationally, and online. 3/28 8 p.m.; 3/29 1:30 p.m.

Peter Jones is the host of the internationally syndicated children’s radio program, Tell Us A Tale, produced and heard locally on WTJU 91.1 FM. In addition to his work on the radio show, Peter performs around Central Virginia as a storyteller. StoryFest

Barbara Kanninen is an Arlington-based children’s writer and Ph.D. environmental economist. Her first picture book, A Story with Pictures, received a starred review form Publishers Weekly and was named a Picture Book We Admire by the Children’s Literature Network. 3/29 4 p.m.

Jan Karon’s newest novel is Home to Holly Springs, the first of the Father Tim Novels. She has written nine novels in the Mitford Years series, as well as three children’s books. 3/27 11:45 a.m.; 4 p.m.

Dee Keith taught Creative Drama/Children’s Theatre at Broome Community College, Binghamton, NY. She has led visiting schools and groups for the Monticello Education Department. She uses puppets to assist in reading and telling stories of historic and courageous Americans. 3/28 10 a.m.

Cathy Kiehl received her M.S. in Art Therapy from the School of Art Therapy (Psychiatry Dept), Eastern Virginia Medical School. She uses the creative process to work with adults and adolescents in individual and group sessions. 3/27 Noon

Stephen Kiernan is the author of Last Rights, an acclaimed investigation into how to improve the care of people who are dying. Winner of 40 writing awards, he has masters’ degrees from Johns Hopkins and University of Iowa. 3/26 2 p.m.

Michael D. King is co-editor and contributing author of Our Changing Planet: The View from Space. He is an atmospheric scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where his research has focused on aerosol particles, clouds, and climate. 3/26 Noon

Pamela K. Kinney, author of the nonfiction book Haunted Richmond, Virginia, is a frequent author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. As Sapphire Phelan, she has published erotic and sweet paranormal/fantasy/science fiction romance. 3/28 2 p.m.

David Kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University and author of The House on Boulevard St. and Ultra-Talk: Johnny Cash, The Mafia, Shakespeare, Drum Music, St. Teresa Of Avila, And 17 Other Colossal Topics of Conversation. 3/27 8 p.m.; 3/28 4 p.m.

Michael Klarman, author of Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History, is the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of History, UVa. He won the 2005 Bancroft Prize for From Jim Crow to Civil Rights. 3/28 4 p.m.

Mindy Klasky, a resident of Arlington, Virginia, is the author of the humorous contemporary women’s novels, Sorcery and the Single Girl and Girl’s Guide to Witchcraft, and the award-winning fantasy Glasswrights series. 3/28 8 p.m.

Hank Klibanoff, co-author of The Race Beat, is the managing editor for enterprise at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A native of Alabama, he has been a reporter, national correspondent, and editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, and a reporter at the Boston Globe and three Misissippi newspapers. 3/28 2 p.m., 4 p.m.

Laurie Krebs, former 1st grade teacher, combines her love of children’s literature with her love of travel. Her six picture books take readers all over the world. Krebs lives in Virginia and school visits are her delight. School visits

Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda is Virginia’s current Poet Laureate and an award-winning educator. She has published five books of poetry (including her latest, River Country), and she was named a Virginia Cultural Laureate for her contributions to American literature. 3/27 2 p.m.

Christopher Krentz is assistant professor of English and is director of the ASL Program at UVa. He is author of Writing Deafness:The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, and editor of A Mighty Change: An Anthology of Deaf American Writing, 1816-1864. 3/26 Noon

Paul Kuczko, the Executive Producer of Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields, is the Director of the Lonesome Pine Office on Youth in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. 3/26 2 p.m.

Jon Kukla, author of Mr. Jefferson’s Women, received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and has worked at the Library of Virginia, Historic New Orleans Collection, and Patrick Henry’s Red Hill. He now lives and writes in Richmond. 3/26 2 p.m.

Anne Landsman’s second novel is The Rowing Lesson. The Devil’s Chimney, was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award for a distinguished first book of fiction. Originally from South Africa, she lives in New York City with her husband and two children. 3/27 2 p.m.; 3/29 10 a.m.

John Lane is the author of eleven books, most recently Circling Home. He teaches at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and with his wife is one of the founders of The Hub City Writers Project. 3/29 10 a.m.

Clare Langley-Hawthorne’s Consequences of Sin is her first novel. She was raised in England and Australia. She was an attorney in Melbourne before moving to the United States, where she began her career as a writer. 3/29 2 p.m.

Jeanne Larsen, author of three acclaimed historical novels set in China (Silk Road, Bronze Mirror, Manchu Palaces), has just published her second book of translated poems from the golden age that first called her to study China’s language and literature. 3/29 10 a.m.

Judy Merrill Larsen’s debut novel All the Numbers was published in 2006; she is currently at work on her second novel. A former English teacher, she lives in Kirkwood, Missouri with her husband and their five children. 3/26 4 p.m.

Joyce and Jim Lavene are the authors of national bestsellers Pretty Poison, Fruit of the Poisoned Tree, and Poisoned Petals. Their other series feature a pet psychic, The Telltale Turtle, a Renaissance Festival, Wicked Weaves and stockcar racing, Swapping Paint and Hooked Up. 3/29 10 a.m.

Barbara Spilman Lawson is a professional storyteller who presents wild and wacky interactive programs and workshops up and down the east coast. Barb performs in numerous musical theater productions and is the founder of Fund Stuff Publications. School visits

William Poy Lee’s first book is The Eighth Promise. He was born in the North Beach-Chinatown districts of San Francisco in 1961 where he lived with one foot in the very traditional Chinatown and one foot in the bohemian arts, music, and politics of North Beach. 3/28 6 p.m.

Marc Leepson, journalist and historian, has written six books, including Desperate Engagement, a history of the little-known but crucial 1864 Civil War Battle of Monocacy and Jubal Early’s subsequent march on Washington, D.C., Saving Monticello, and Flag: An American Biography.
3/27 6 p.m.

Melvyn P. Leffler, author of For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War, is the Edward Stettinius Professor of American History at UVa. He won the Bancroft Prize for his previous book on the Truman administration and national security policy.
3/26 4 p.m.

Con Lehane’s third bartender Brian McNulty mystery, Death at the Old Hotel, was published in June. The series includes Beware the Solitary Drinker (a 2002 Publishers Weekly Best Mystery Novel) and What Goes Around Comes Around. 3/29 2 p.m.

Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, is editor-at-large for Seed Magazine. He graduated from Columbia University in 2003 and spent the next two years studying at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. 3/28 4 p.m.

Sharon Leiter’s most recent book of poetry is The Dream of Leaving. Her A Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference to her Life and Work was published in 2006. She is also the author of The Lady and the Bailiff of Time and Akhmatova’s Petersburg. 3/28 4 p.m.

Edward G. Lengel, associate professor of history at UVa, wrote To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 and This Glorious Struggle: George Washington’s Revolutionary War Letters. He received the National Humanities Medal for his work at the Papers of George Washington. 3/27 Noon

Michael Lesher, Esq., co-author of From Madness to Mutiny: Why Mothers Are Running From the Family Courts—and What Can Be Done About It, is a writer and attorney for mothers and children trapped in the family court system. 3/27 Noon

Simon Lipskar is an agent at Writers House, a literary agency in New York. He represents a wide range of writers, including major authors in literary and commercial fiction, narrative nonfiction, and young adult fiction. 3/29 Noon, 4 p.m.

Jeb Livingood teaches at UVa and serves as faculty advisor for the literary magazine Meridian and series editor for Best New Poets, an annual anthology featuring work of 50 emerging poets selected from nominations by writing programs, literary magazines, and an open internet competition. 3/29 Noon

Penny Loeb, author of Moving Mountains: How One Woman and her Community Won Justice from Big Coal, is a former senior editor at U.S. News and World Report and a former investigative reporter for Newsday. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. 3/26 2 p.m.

Jon Lohman, Ph.D, is a folklorist and the director of the Virginia Folklife Program at the VFH. He collaborated with photographer Morgan Miller on In Good Keeping: Virginia’s Folklife Apprenticeships. 3/26 Noon; 3/27 2 p.m.

Natalie Lyalin lives and teaches in Philadelphia. She is the co-founder and co-editor of Glitterpony magazine. Her most recent work has appeared in Best New Poets 2007, Skein, Unpleasant Event Schedule, and she has work forthcoming in Invisible Ear. 3/29 2 p.m.

Catharine Lynch is Vice President, Associate Publisher of G. P. Putnam’s Sons and Riverhead Books, which are divisions of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. A veteran of the publishing industry for more than twenty-four years, she began her career at The Johns Hopkins University Press. 3/29 10 a.m.

C.J. Lyons is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and author of Lifelines. She has lived the life she writes about. 3/29 10 a.m.

Frank MacHovec, author of Divine Spark, is a retired psychologist whose interest in Eastern philosophies began as a Marine during the Korean War studying the enemy he might face. This, his latest, is a distillation of 55 years of research and reflection. 3/26 4 p.m.

Stuart Macintyre, What If? Australian History as it Might Have Been, was educated in Melbourne and undertook doctoral studies in history at Cambridge. Since 1990 he has been the Ernest Scott Professor of History at Melbourne and is currently professor of Australian Studies at Harvard. 3/28 4 p.m.

Malcom MacPherson, whose novel Hocus Potus satirizes post-invasion Iraq, is a former longtime correspondent for Time and Newsweek. As a journalist, he covered Ambassador Paul Bremer in Iraq. 3/28 10 a.m.

Konstantina Mahlia graduated from university three years ago and published her memoir, The House of Many Faces. She wrote the story as a social commentary on a woman’s struggle for independence that involved breaking archaic rules and traditions. 3/26 6 p.m.

Adam Mansbach, author of The End of the Jews, has also written Angry Black White Boy and Shackling Water. He teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute. 3/29 2 p.m.

Charles Marsh, author of Wayward Christian Soldiers, is professor of religion and director of the Project on Lived Theology at UVa. He is a Harvard Divinity School graduate, and has written for the New York Times, Books and Culture, and Modern Theology. 3/28 7 p.m.

Janet Martin, author of The Christmas Swap, has experience as a television producer and reporter, a print journalist, a college teacher, and a media relations director. She lives in Virginia and New York. 3/26 4 p.m.

Patricia Martin, Ren Gen: Renaissance Generation—The Rise of the Cultural Consumer and What it Means to Your Business, is the President of LitLamp Communications and an authority on the marketplace created by the convergence of art, education, business, and entertainment. 3/28 Noon, 4 p.m.

Elizabeth (Beth) Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of numerous horror/suspense novels and short stories. Her newest novel, Homeplace, is a ghost story set in Nelson County, Virginia. 3/28 8 p.m.

Charles Mathewes, A Theology of Public Life, explores the challenges and benefits of public engagement for religious believers in modern democracies. He teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at UVa. He is the editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 3/28 7 p.m.

Mary Beth Mathews, author of Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South, is affiliated with University of Mary Washington. She specializes in American religious history, fundamentalism and evangelicalism, and African-American religions. She previously worked on Capitol Hill. 3/28 2 p.m.

Charlotte Matthews, author of Green Stars, received the 2007 New Writing Award from the Fellowship for Southern Writers. Her second collection is Still Enough to Be Dreaming. 3/30 1:30 p.m.

Cathy Maxwell is the author of In a Highlander’s Bed, her sixteenth historical romance novel. Cathy moderates “Books!,“ a radio program on WZEZ 100.5 in Richmond, VA (or through the internet at wzezradio.com), which allows Cathy to indulge her passion for books. 3/26 8 p.m.

Kathy May is the author of Molasses Man and teaches courses on children’s writing. She and her family live in Virginia. School visits

Deborah E. McDowell, Alice Griffin Professor of English, is the author of Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin and co-editor with Henry Louis Gates and others of The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature. 3/26 2 p.m.; 3/28 4 p.m.

Kevin McFadden, author of the VQR Poetry Series selection Hardscrabble, has published poems in Poetry, Verse, The Kenyon Review, and Denver Quarterly. He is the Associate Program Director of the Virginia Festival of the Book. 3/28 Noon

Patrick McGilligan is author of Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only. His biography of Alfred Hitchcock was nominated for an Edgar Award in 2003. He has written more than a dozen noteworthy film biographies and histories, including a continuing series of interviews with screenwriters, Backstory. 3/28 10 a.m., 2 p.m.

Heather McHugh is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Eyeshot and Hinge & Sign. Editor of Best American Poetry 2007 and recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, she teaches at the University of Washington in Seattle and at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. 3/28 2 p.m., 4 p.m.; 3/29 Noon

Guian McKee is the author of The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia (forthcoming) and the editor of Volumes 6 and 7 of the Presidential Recordings of Lyndon Johnson. McKee is an assistant professor at UVa’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. 3/28 10 a.m.

John J. McLaughlin is the author of Run in the Fam’ly, winner of the 2006 Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel. He lives in Seattle, where he directs Education Across Borders, a nonprofit serving indigent communities in the Dominican Republic. 3/27 4 p.m.

Charles McRaven’s new book, The Stone Primer, is his fifth. He is recognized as the foremost expert in the restoration of log, stone, and post & beam structures and building in the historic style. He lectures and teaches on this subject. 3/27 2 p.m.

Barbara Drummond Mead is President of Reading Group Choices, a leading developer of resources to enhance reading group experiences. The 15th edition of Reading Group Choices: Selections for Lively Book Discussions will be released in September 2008. 3/27 Noon

Lindsey Mears is a studio artist working in artist’s books and book conservation. She has an M.F.A. in Book Arts and Printmaking from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and has worked at the American Philosophical Society and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 3/30 1:30 p.m.

Marsha Mehran’s 2005 debut Pomegranate Soup, the story of three Iranian sisters who escape the Islamic Revolution for a village in the West of Ireland, is an international bestseller. Its sequel, Rosewater and Soda Bread, will be published in May, 2008. 3/28 6 p.m.

Peter Charles Melman’s debut novel, Landsman, has garnered a BookSense, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers, and 2007 American Library Association Notable Book of the Year selection. He teaches at Hunter College High School in Manhattan. 3/28 2 p.m.; 3/29 2 p.m.

Chris Mercogliano, author of In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids’ Inner Wildness, was a teacher and director at the Albany Free School for 35 years. He is also the author of Making It Up as We Go Along, Teaching the Restless, and How to Grow a School. 3/26 6 p.m.

Kevin Merida, associate editor of the Washington Post, is author of Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas and editor of Being a Black Man, which won a Peabody for its multimedia components. He and his wife Donna Britt have three sons. 3/28 8 p.m.

Mark A. Michaels (Swami Umeshanand Saraswati) is the co-author of Tantra for Erotic Empowerment: The Key to Enriching Your Sexual Life and a teacher of Tantra in metropolitan New York, nationally, and online. 3/28 8 p.m.; 3/29 1:30 p.m.

Patrice Michelle’s latest release is Scions: Resurrection, the first book in her sexy action-adventure paranormal trilogy. She has also published over a dozen novels and novellas in contemporary and paranormal romance. 3/26 8 p.m.

William D. Middleton, co-author of the Encyclopedia of North American Railroads, spent more than 50 years as a U.S. Navy officer, university manager, and civil engineer. He has written more than 20 books and hundreds of articles on rail transportation. 3/27 4 p.m.

Elinor Miller’s A Banner Experience details her founding of The Banner School in Frederick, Maryland in 1982 and covers its first ten years’ growth. Her second book is A Banner Education for Teachers. 3/26 6 p.m.

Guy Miller, U.Va. Law School Alumni, retired IBM lawyer volunteers his time reading with Venable Elementary School students and Therapeutic Recreation Summer Programs. He has been a puppeteer and amateur magician for Charlottesville Recreation Services. School visits

Tom Miller, editor of How I Learned English, writes extraordinary stories about ordinary people throughout Latin America and the American West. He has contributed to Smithsonian, the New Yorker, the New York Times, LIFE and Natural History. This is his tenth book. 3/29 Noon

Tyler Mills appears in Best New Poets 2007. Winner of the 2006 Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, she has been published in the Indiana Review and has been a John Woods Fellow in the Prague Summer Program. She lives in Maryland. 3/29 2 p.m.

George Robert Minkoff is the author of The Weight of Smoke and The Dragons of the Storm, parts of a trilogy concerning Jamestown and the English in the New World. The third volume, The Leaves of Fate, will be published in 2008. 3/27 2 p.m., 4 p.m.

L.E.Modesitt, Jr., is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of more than 50 science fiction and fantasy novels published world-wide. His most recent books are Natural Ordermage and Viewpoints Critical (a story collection). 3/28 6 p.m.

Thorpe Moeckel is the author of two books of poetry, Odd Botany and Making a Map of the River. A UVa alumnus, he teaches English and Environmental Studies at Hollins University. 3/27 8 p.m.

Rosa Montero, author of Story of the Transparent King is an award-winning journalist with the Spanish newspaper, El Pais. She has also written 20 other books, and is one of the best-known writers in Spanish today. Rosa Montero es una de las escritoras más conocidas en la España actual. Autora de más de 20 libros y periodista del prestigioso periódico El Pais. Algunas de sus novelas se han hecho en cine. Su última novela de 2005 es “Historia del Rey Transparente”. 3/29 4 p.m.

Michael Hamilton Morgan, author of Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers and Artists, is a former diplomat and founder of New Foundations for Peace, which promotes cross-cultural understanding and leadership among youth. As a journalist he has covered foreign policy issues. 3/28 Noon

Margaret Ward Morland was Poet Laureate of Virginia from 1996 to 1998. Her books of poetry are It Happens Thus and Gift of Jade. Among her awards are the Arts Award of the Academy of Women and Distinguished Alumna Award, Samford University. 3/27 2 p.m.

James W. Morrison, author of Bedford Goes to War: The Heroic Story of a Small Virginia Community in World War II, served for 30 years in the Department of Defense. A past president of the Virginia Writer’s Club, he gives tours at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford. 3/27 2 p.m.

Greg Mortenson, co-author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace..One School at a Time, is the co-founder of the Central Asia Institute, which has built over 50 schools in Central Asia. 3/27 6 p.m.; 3/28 4 p.m.; School visits

Walter Mosley, author of the Easy Rawlins mysteries, recently completed that New York Times bestselling series with Blonde Faith. Also the writer of essays on social morality and justice, the Fearless Jones series, three sci-fi novels, and a young adult novel, he lives in New York. 3/30 4 p.m.

Roger Mudd, The Place to Be, was most recently primary anchor for The History Channel. He was weekend anchor of CBS Evening News, co-anchor of NBC Nightly News, and co-hosted Meet the Press. He has won numerous awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Joan Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting, and five Emmy Awards. 3/25 7 p.m., 3/26, 7:30 a.m.

Frank Muir’s Eye for an Eye is both his first novel and the first novel in a mystery series. Muir, a dual U.S.-UK citizen, works in Virginia and lives part time in Scotland. 3/29 4 p.m.

Thomas Mullen’s first novel, The Last Town on Earth, was named Best Debut of 2006 by USA Today, was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and was awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. He lives in Washington, D.C. 3/29 4 p.m.

Peggy Munson is the editor of Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and author of the Lambda Award finalist novel Origami Striptease. Her latest book, Pathogenesis, was hailed as a work of “stylistic brilliance and extraordinary humanism”