Authors and Presenters
As of August 5, 2008--Subject to Change
Throughout the day, authors will be available to sign copies of their books and talk informally with festival attendees.
Keynote Speaker
Thomas Frank
http://tcfrank.com/
The Wrecking Crew
History/Biography/Memoir
Beverley Buller
Newton, Kansas
http://www.newton.k12.ks.us/sch/ch/From%20Emporia.htm
From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White
Marilyn Holt
Abilene, Kansas
http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/holmam.html
Mamie Doud Eisenhower: The General's First Lady
Michael L. Johnson
Lawrence, Kansas
http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/johhun.html
Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West
Candice Millard
Kansas City
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=58032
River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
David A. Nichols
Winfield, Kansas
http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=536639
A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution
George Paris
Topeka, Kansas
Back When I Was Alive: Tales of the Kansas Dust Bowl
Matthew Polly
New York, NY
mattpolly.com
American Shaolin
Rolf Potts
Gypsum, Kansas
http://www.rolfpotts.com
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
Politics/Humor
Richard Crowson
Wichita, Kansas
Wichita Eagle political cartoonist
Ande Parks
Baldwin City, Kansas
www.andeparks.com
Uncle Slam
Mystery/Crime
Mark Bouton
Emmett, Kansas
http://www.markbouton.com
Max Unlocks the Universe, Cracks in the Rainbow, Max Conquers the Cosmos
Laura Bradford
St. Charles, Missouri
http://www.laurabradford.com
Marked by Fate, Forecast of Evil, Jury of One
Sally Goldenbaum
Prairie Village, Kansas
Joel Goldman
Leawood, Kansas
www.joelgoldman.com
Shakedown, Deadlocked, Cold Truth, Last Witness, Motion to Kill
Scott Heim
Roslindale, Massachusetts
http://www.heim.etherweave.com
We Disappear, Mysterious Skin, In Awe
Esther Luttrell
Topeka, Kansas
http://www.screenwritersnews.com
Murder in the Movies
Denise Osborne
Raytown, Missouri
http://www.deniseosbornemysteries.com/
A Deadly Arrangement, Positioned to Die, Designed to Kill, Evil Intentions
Scott Phillips
St. Louis, Missouri
http://www.scottphillipsauthor.com
The Ice Harvest, The Walkaway, Cottonwood
Eleanor Sullivan
St. Louis, Missouri
http://www.eleanorsullivan.com
Assumed Dead, Twice Dead, Deadly Diversion
Novelists
Max McCoy
Emporia, Kansas
http://www.maxmccoy.com
I, Quantrill, Hellfire Canyon
Michael Pritchett
The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis
Cowboy Poetry and Stories
Jim Hoy
Emporia, Kansas
http://www.emporia.edu/english/hoy/hoybio.htm
Flint Hills Cowboys
Doug Weaver
Kansas Theater Project
Children's Authors
J.B. Cheaney
The Middle of Somewhere
Barbara Higgins-Dover
Lawrence, Kansas
http://www.catfishcookies.org
Catfish Cookies
Bobbie Hinman
Bel Air, Maryland
http://www.bestfairybooks.com
The Knot Fairy, The Sock Fairy
Jane Kurtz
Lawrence, Kansas
http://www.janekurtz.com
From Ethiopia to Kansas: The Power of Books to Change Lives
Lisa Harkrader
Tonganoxie, Kansas
www.ldharkrader.com
Airball: My Life in Briefs
Harriet Lerner
Lawrence, Kansas
http://www.harrietlerner.com
Franny B. Kranny, There's a Bird in Your Hair!
Jancy Morgan and Tom Dunn
Berryton, Kansas
www.happytalestoyou.com
If This Old Tree Could Talk to Me
Poets
Maril Crabtree
Mission, Kansas
http://www.marilcrabtree.com
Dancing with Elvis and Other Poems
Steven Hind
Hutchinson, Kansas
http://www.washburn.edu/reference/cks/mapping/hind/index.html
In a Place with No Map
Bill Karnowski
Wamego, Kansas
http://www.williamjkarnowski.com
Catching the Rain
Denise Low
Lawrence, Kansas
http://deniselow.blogspot.com/
Words of a Prairie Alchemist
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Lawrence, Kansas
http://www.writewhereyouare.org
Animals in the House
Kevin Rabas
Emporia, Kansas
http://www.kevinrabas.com
Bird's Horn and Other Poems
Thomas Reynolds
Paola, Kansas
http://www.zianet.com/lunarosity/reynolds.html
Ghost Town Almanac
Judith Roitman
Lawrence, Kansas
http://www.math.ku.edu/~roitman
No Face: New and Selected Poems
Elizabeth Schultz
Lawrence, Kansas
http://www.ceas.ku.edu/Images/EPP/Muramatsu/Schultz%20Biography.html
Her Voice