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Inaugural Book Festival Planned
More than seventy authors— including John Grisham, Greg lies, Ellen Gilchrist, and Bill Ferriss—will participate in the Mississippi Book Festival on August 22 at the state capitol. The event will feature food and live music to accompany readings, signings, and book sales.
“Because our state is so rich with writers, we have been able to assemble authors from a range of genres that will offer something to every Missis-sippian,” said festival director Holly Lange.
The Mississippi Book Festival line-up will cover a broad array of subject matter, including history, short stories, poetry, civil rights, romance, sports and outdoors, children’s stories, biography, literary fiction, southern popular fiction, comics, and the Civil War.
The festival will conclude with a panel that includes Ellen Gilchrist. Greg lies, and Steve Yarbrough.
“Mississippi’s literary contributions have enhanced our state and national culture. Our great writers are household names; many of their stories are our stories,” said John Evans, owner of Lemuria Books in Jackson and a festival organizer. “But before great writers put pen to paper, they were first great readers.”
For more information, visit www.msbookfestival.com or email info@msbookfest.com.
SCHEDULE
10 a.m. Kick-off with John Grisham
10:30 a.m.
Comics & Cartoons in Mississippi, Brannon Costello, moderator. Authors Marshall Ramsey, Mike McCarthy, and Mary Katherine Spencer
Southern Fiction Today, Mat-
thew Guinn, moderator. Authors Mary Miller, Deborah Johnson, and M.O. Walsh
African American History, Diane Williams, moderator. Authors Alysia Burton Steele, Stephen A. Berrey, George Worlasi Kwasi Dor, and Michael Vinson Williams
1	p.m.
Books for Young Readers, Margaret McMullan, moderator. Authors Kimberly Willis Holt, Deborah Wiles, Taylor Kitchings, Greg Leitich Smith, and Cassie Beasley
Civil Rights History, Robby
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11:30 a.m.
Children’s Illustrated Books,
Ellen Ruffin, moderator. Authors Sarah Campbell, Sarah Frances Hardy, Susan Eaddy, Hester Bass, Lori Nichols, and Chris Barton
Eudora Welty: Letters, Flowers, Loves, and the Latest Scholarship, Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, moderator. Authors Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan, Julia Eichelberger, Sally Wolff, and Pearl McHaney
Short Stories, Michael Kardos, moderator. Authors Andrew Ma-lan Milward, Margaret McMullan, and William Boyle
Luckett, moderator. Authors Tiyi Morris, Jon Hale, Aram Goud-souzian, and Devery Anderson
Crossing Borders: Across Literary Boundaries, Michael Farris Smith, moderator. Authors Jamie Kornegay, Michael Kardos, R.B. Chesterton, and Lisa Howorth
Romance, Mary Emrick, moderator. Authors Aaron McCarver and Diane Ashley, Pam Hillman, and Beth White
2	p.m.
History and Biography, Curtis Wilkie, moderator. Authors Haley Barbour, Don Thompson, Stuart Stevens, Dennis Mitchell, and K.C. Morrison
Cooking and Foodways, Robert St. John, moderator. Authors Martha Hall Foose and Malcolm White
Historical Fiction, Howard Bahr, moderator. Authors Matthew Guinn, Steve Yates, Katy Simpson Smith, and Jeffrey Stayton
Poetry, Beth Ann Fennelly, moderator. Authors Derrick Harriell, Catherine Pierce, and Richard Boada
3	P.m.
What Reading Means for our Culture: Reading, Writing and Journalism’s Influence in Mississippi
John Grisham, Jerry Mitchell, and William Ferris
4	p.m.
Margret Walker Alexander, Eudora Welty and the Making of Literary Jackson, Robby Luckett, moderator. Authors Carolyn Brown, Suzanne Marrs, Julia Eichelberger, and Alferd-teen Harrison
Civil War
Authors Michael Ballard, Timothy Smith, Tom,Parson, and Justin S. Solonick
Southern Popular Fiction, Emily Gatlin, moderator. Authors Julie Cantrell, Patti Callahan Henry, Mary Kay Andrews, Joshilyn Jackson, and Sara Gruen
Sports and Outdoors, Rick Cleveland, moderator. Authors Billy Watkins, Mike Christensen, Don Jackson, and Sid Salter
5	P.m.
Closing Session, William Ferris, moderator. Authors Ellen Gilchrist, Greg lies, and Steve Yarbrough