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Altrusa Club of Lawrence, a service organization that promotes literacy, has joined with community organizations to plan, organize, and present the River City Reading Festival.

Representatives of Kansas University Libraries, the KU Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence Public Library, and the Lawrence school district have volunteered to help plan the festival.


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Schedule

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. September 27, 2008
Lawrence Public Library
707 Vermont
Lawrence, Kansas


Activities

Poetry Stage Schedule

Children, Teens, Family

Music

Exhibitors

Full Schedule (pdf)



** denotes Kansas Notable Books


10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
-Scott Phillips, author of The Ice Harvest, Mystery Stage
-Bobbie Hinman, author of The Knot Fairy and The Sock Fairy, Mixed Genres Stage
-Marilyn Holt, author of Mamie Doud Eisenhower: The General's First Lady, History/Biography/Memoir Stage
-Jane Kurtz, From Ethiopia to Kansas: The Power of Books to Change Lives, Lawrence Public Library Auditorium


11 a.m. - Noon
-Sally Goldenbaum, author of Death by Cashmere, Mystery Stage
-Michael Pritchett, author of The Melancholy Fate of Captain Lewis, Mixed Genres Stage
-David Nichols, author of **A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution, History/Biography/Memoir Stage
-Beverley Buller, author of **From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White, Lawrence Public Library Auditorium


Noon - 1 p.m.
-Workshop: Clues to Writing a Mystery with Mark Bouton and Esther Luttrell, Mystery Stage
-Max McCoy, author of **I, Quantrill, Mixed Genres Stage
-George Paris, author of Back When I Was Alive: Tales of the Kansas Dust Bowl, History/Biography/Memoir stage
-Lisa Harkrader and The William Allen White Book Awards, Lawrence Public Library Auditorium


1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
-Panel Discussion: Behind the Scenes of a Mystery Novel with Eleanor Sullivan, Laura Bradford, and Denise Osborne, Mystery Stage
-J.B. Cheaney, author of **The Middle of Somewhere, Mixed Genres Stage
-Paul Shirley, author of **Can I Keep My Jersey? 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond, History/Biography/Memoir Stage
-History Day Projects with Lawrence High School students, Lawrence Public Library Auditorium


2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
-Joel Goldman, author of Shakedown, Mystery Stage
-Ande Parks, author of Uncle Slam, Mixed Genres Stage
-Candice Millard, author of River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, History/Biography/Memoir Stage
-Rolf Potts, author of Marco Polo Didn't Go There, Lawrence Public Library Auditorium


3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
-Scott Heim, author of We Disappear, Mystery Stage
-The Tom Waltz Stories with Doug Weaver, Kansas Theatre Project, Mixed Genres Stage
-Matthew Polly, author of **American Shaolin, History/Biography/Memoir Stage
-Hog's Heaven for Editorial Cartoonists: 20 Years of Crowson's Kansas Toons with Richard Crowson, Wichita Eagle political cartoonist, Lawrence Public Library Auditorium


5 p.m.
-Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, Dole Institute of Politics




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