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Featured authors for the 2015 Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading

 
Published Sept. 9, 2015

Festival authors

These books and authors will be featured at the free 23rd annual Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading, which is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 24 at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg (festivalofreading.com).

Fabrizio Aielli, Sea Salt

Ace Atkins, The Redeemers and Kickback

Cynthia Barnett, Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

Linda Bond, Cuba Undercover

Judy Blume, In the Unlikely Event

Richard Lee Byers, The Reaver

Susan Cerulean, Coming to Pass: Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change

James Clark, Florida: A Concise History

Roy Peter Clark, How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times

Reed Farrel Coleman, The Devil Wins

Silvia Curbelo, Falling Landscape

Lane DeGregory, Newswomen: Twenty-five Years of Front-Page Journalism

Phillippe Diederich, Sofrito

Tim Dorsey, Shark Skin Suite

Ann Dunwoody, A Higher Standard: Leadership Strategies From America's First Female Four-Star General

J. Michael Francis, St. Augustine: America's First City, A Story of Unbroken History and Enduring Spirit

Jesse Goolsby, I'd Walk With My Friends If I Could Find Them

James Grissom, Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog

Amy Hill Hearth, Miss Dreamsville and the Lost Heiress of Collier County

Jean Heller, The Someday File

Anne Hull, Newswomen: Twenty-five Years of Front-Page Journalism

Russell James, Dark Inspiration

Margo Jefferson, Negroland: A Memoir

Deborah Johnson, The Secret of Magic

Kimberly Karalius, Love Fortunes and Other Disasters

Harrison Scott Key, The World's Largest Man

Michael Koryta, Last Words

David and Christina Laxer, Bern's: Rare and Well Done

Michael Lister, Innocent Blood

Tamara Lush, Hot Shade

Toni Lydecker and Elise Minkoff, Food + Art

Gianmarc Manzione, Pin Action: Small-Time Gangsters, High-Stakes Gambling, and the Teenage Hustler Who Became a Bowling Champion

Peter and Jeanne Meinke, The Elf Poem

Jon Mills, Privacy in the New Media Age

John Norris, Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism

Ersula Odom-McLemore, African-Americans of Tampa

Leonard Pitts, Grant Park

Padgett Powell, Cries for Help, Various

Diane Roberts, Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America

Lori Roy, Let Me Die in His Footsteps

Peter Salomon, All Those Broken Angels

Dewayne Staats and Dave Scheiber, Position to Win: A Look at Baseball and Life From the Best Seat in the House

Jeff Strand, A Bad Day for Voodoo

James Swain, Take Down

Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler

Jenn Marie Thorne, The Wrong Side of Right

Lisa Unger, Crazy Love You

Lu Vickers and Cynthia Wilson-Graham, Remembering Paradise Park: Tourism and Segregation at Silver Springs

Helen Wallace, Shimming the Glass House

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Kent Wascom, Secessia

Sterling Watson, Suitcase City

Ben Yagoda, The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the American Song

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