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Mystery writer Sara Paretsky appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: When detective V.I. Warshawski debuted in 1982 in "Indemnity Only," its author, Sara Paretsky, created a sensation by creating a female investigator wh
Justin Roberts & the Not Ready for Naptime Players performed on Saturday at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Justin Roberts logs thousands of miles on the road each year, leading some to call him the hardest working man in c
Justin Roberts & the Not Ready for Naptime Players performed on Saturday at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Justin Roberts logs thousands of miles on the road each year, leading some to call him the hardest working man in c
Join emcee Mary Brigid Barrett and authors and illustrators Calef Brown, Susan Cooper, Jack Gantos, Gregory Maguire, Patricia McKissack, Katherine Paterson and Chris Van Dusen for a session of fun and surprises as they bring you excerpts from t
Speaker Biography: Steve Berry is the New York Times best-selling author of the Cotton Malone series featuring "The Emperor's Tomb," "The Templar Legacy" and the latest in the series, "The Jefferson Key." He has sold more than 12 million books
Hip Hop Harry performs at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Hip Hop Harry's Live Show is family fun at its best. The show features original rap-a-long songs with educational, positive messages. Hip Hop Harry is accompanied on
Rita Williams-Garcia appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: In "One Crazy Summer," winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King and Newbery Honor awards, Rita Williams-Garcia places her main character, Delphine, in Oakland, Ca
Chris Van Dusen appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Chris Van Dusen writes: "As a child, my brothers and I would spend hours drawing pictures. We didn't have video games or computers to entertain us, so we drew inste
Rita Dove appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: In 1993 Rita Dove was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress, making her the youngest person -- and the first African-American -- to rece
Laura Lippman appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Laura Lippman grew up in Baltimore and was a reporter for 20 years, including 12 years at The (Baltimore) Sun. She began writing novels while working fulltime and pub
Kia DuPree appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Kia DuPree is a former assistant editor at St. Martin's Press. She received the 2005 Fiction Honor Book Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association f
John Bemelmans Marciano appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: John Bemelmans Marciano says that "it really, really helped that my grandfather, Ludwig Bemelmans, had created the Madeline books and left a story unfinishe
Kazu Kibuishi appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Kazu Kibuishi is the founder and editor of the "Flight Anthologies,"a critically acclaimed comics series, as well as the creator of "Daisy Kutter: The Last Train," a
Jonathan Yardley appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: The 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner for criticism, Jonathan Yardley is a book critic for The Washington Post. In 2003, Yardley began his "Second Reading" series in whic
Hip Hop Harry performs at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Hip Hop Harry's Live Show is family fun at its best. The show features original rap-a-long songs with educational, positive messages. Hip Hop Harry is accompanied on
Esmeralda Santiago appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Esmeralda Santiago emigrated from Puerto Rico to the United States with her family when she was 13. Her writing career evolved from her work as a producer-writer
Eric Dezenhall appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Eric Dezenhall is CEO of Dezenhall Resources, a communications firm with expertise in damage control. He is also an author of books of nonfiction ("Damage Control: H
Dolores Kendrick appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Dolores Kendrick is poet laureate of the District of Columbia. She is the author of the award-winning "The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women," as
Colleen Houck appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Colleen Houck is a lifelong reader whose literary interests include action, adventure, science fiction and romance. Formerly a student at the University of Arizona, s
Choo-Choo Soul performs at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Imagine soulful and current renditions of the ABCs and 1-2-3s plus songs that teach children to be fit, eat their vegetables and be polite! Imagine a diverse and in
Carmen Agra Deedy & John McCutcheon appear at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Children's book author and storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy has won more than a dozen awards for her work. She was born in Havana, Cuba, and emigrat
Calef Brown appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Publications as diverse as Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Spin, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, Travel and Leisure, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The C
Amy Chua appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" has created a sensation with its depiction of the strict, traditional child-rearing of the author's children. Amy Chua's two daughters we
Allen Say appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Allen Say was born in Yokohama, Japan, and he dreamed of becoming a cartoonist from the age of 6. When he was 12, he apprenticed for his favorite cartoonist, Noro Shinpei
Rachel Renee Russell appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: Rachel Renee Russell is an attorney who prefers writing tween books to legal briefs. (Mainly because books are a lot more fun and pajamas and bunny slippers ar
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