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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