Christina Baker Kline
Planning continues for the 2014 Fall for the Book—and announcements about the festival’s four major award-winners is just on the horizon!—but in the meantime organizer have just posted the names and bios of more than fifty authors already confirmed for this year’s event, taking place September 11-18 at George Mason University’s Fairfax, VA, campus and at locations throughout Virginia, DC, and Maryland. The current list boasts novelist Christina Baker Kline, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Orphan Train, journalist David Finkel, whose honors include both a Pulitzer Prize and a a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, poet Peter Strekfus, who won the distinguished Yale Younger Poets Prize, and an array of both veteran writers and up-and-coming talents making headlines today.
Fiction writers include: A.X. Ahmad, Charles Belfoure, Carla Buckley, Maud Casey, Kevin Clouther, P. J. Devlin, Keith Donohue, Ed Falco, Roxane Gay, Allegra Jordan, Allison Leotta, Jenny Offill, Roxana Robinson, Porter Shreve, Laura van den Berg, and Ronna Wineberg.
Poets include: Lisa Ampleman, Betsy Andrews, Linda Hogan, Karla Kelsey, Dorothea Lasky, Lia Purpura, Mary Szybist, and Brian Teare.
Children’s and YA writers include: L.M. Elliott, Meg Medina, Luis Carlos Montalván, and A.B. Westrick.
Novelist Laura Florand, author of the Amour et Chocolat series, and cokbook author and Washington Post food section editor Joe Yonan will participate in the festival’s second annual cooking event at the Hylton Performing Arts Center at Mason’s Prince William Campus (more updates soon!).
And nonfiction writers are covering a broad range of topics including education (Beth Cabrera, Wendy Hesford, Peter N. Stearns), current affairs (Brigid Schulte, Earl Smith), science (Lydia Denworth, Sam Kean, Carl Zimmer), memoir (Angie Chuang, Guillermo Fesser, Sigrid Fry-Revere, Dani Shapiro, Anna Whiston-Donaldson), and more.
Check out the growing list of festival participants here, and stay tuned for the full schedule soon!
