Dallas
Book Festival will feature award winning national and local authors
Dallas
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Hillary Jordan, author of the award-winning novel, Mudbound; bestselling
Christian fiction writer Lisa Wingate; and Canadian artist and writer Mariko
Tamaki are among the authors appearing at the 13th Annual Dallas
Book Festival, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 7 at the Dallas Central
Library, 1515 Young St.
Hillary
Jordan
grew up in Dallas and Muskogee, OK and was an advertising copywriter before
turning to fiction writing. Her first novel, Mudbound, was published in
2008 and won the 2006 Bellwether Prize, an Alex Award from the American Library
Association and was also the NAIBA Fiction Book of the Year. The 2017 film
adaptation received four Academy Award nominations. She is currently working on
a sequel, to be published in 2019. Jordan’s second novel, When She Woke,
was published in 2011 and was a Lamda Literary Award finalist.
Former
journalist, inspirational speaker and New York times bestselling author Lisa
Wingate has won numerous awards, including the Pat Conroy Southern Book
Prize; the Oklahoma Book Award; the Utah Library Award; and the RT Booklovers
Reviewers Choice Award. Her latest book, Before We Were Yours, won the
2017 Goodreads Choice Award for historical fiction. She writes at her home in
Texas, where she is part of the Wingate clan of storytellers and believes that
stories can change the world.
Mariko
Tamaki
is known for her graphic novels, Skim, Emiko Superstar and This One
Summer, and for several fiction and nonfiction works. In 2016, she began
working for Marvel and DC Comics.
Other
featured authors will include:
Jesse Andrews: The Pittsburgh
native and Harvard graduate is the author of the New York Times bestseller Me
and Earl and the Dying Girl. He also wrote the film adaptation of his book,
which won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Film
Festival. His
second book, The Haters, was published in 2016.
Kayla
Cagan:
The Houston native is the author of Young Adult Novels Piper Perish and Art
Boss, published this year. She has also written short plays and monologues
and contributed comics and essays to Girl Crush Zine, Womanthology
and Unite and Take Over: Stories Inspired by the Smiths.
Daniel
Kalder:
A native of Scotland, Kalder’s
experiences traveling in and around the former Soviet Union led to two books, Lost
Cosmonaut and Strange Telescopes. His third book, The Infernal
Library will be published this year. A resident of Austin, his work has
also been published in Esquire magazine
and The Guardian newspaper and
presented on BBC Radio.
Kara Bietz grew up in New England but now lives
near Houston with her husband, two kids and three dogs. She’s been dreaming up
stories for as long as she can remember; sometimes she puts them on paper and
sometimes they just live in her head. Her first literary credit was a poem
about her dad, published on Father’s Day in her hometown newspaper when she was
8. Her debut novel, Until I Break, was
released in November 2017.
Nancy
Churnin:
A children’s author and currently
theater critic for the Dallas Morning News, her first picture book, The
William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game, won a
Storytelling World Resource Award Honor in 2017. She has two more children’s
books set for publication this year.
Karen
Blumenthal:
A critically acclaimed children's nonfiction writer and journalist for the Wall
Street Journal, she is the author of seven nonfiction books for young readers
including Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different, Hillary Rodham Clinton:
A Woman Living History, and Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine,
and the Lawless Years of Prohibition. She lives in
Dallas.
Churnin and Blumenthal will participate in a
panel discussion at the Book Festival entitled “Teaching Social Justice Through
Picture Books.”
Events
and activities will be happening throughout the downtown library on April 7 and
will include lectures and panel discussions with the DFW Writers Workshop,
Dallas Area Romance Writers, the UNT Mayborn School of Journalism and The Dock
Bookshop; book sales and signings; readings, art and writing workshops; dance
and music performances; and children’s
activities presented by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and
Illustrators.
Principal
sponsors include Friends of the Dallas Public Library, Dallas Morning News and
DART. Community partners include Dallas
Tourism Public Improvement District, Whole Foods Market, DFW Writers Workshop,
Dallas Area Romance Writers, University of North Texas Mayborn School of
Journalism, The Dock Bookshop, Half Price Books, Hampton Inn & Suites
Dallas Downtown and AC Hotel & Residence Inn Dallas Downtown.
*Media:
For information about interviews with authors participating in the Book
Festival, contact Ronnie Jessie at (214) 670-7809.
For a complete list of Book
Festival activities and events visit: www.dallasbookfestival.org.
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