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| Mary Kay Andrews |
Sponsored by Carolyn Stillwell - Associate Broker, Seabolt Brokers/Harry Norman, Realtors
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Mary Kay Andrews started her professional journalism career in Savannah, where she covered the real-life murder trials that were the basis of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. A former reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she wrote ten critically acclaimed mysteries, including the Callahan Garrity mystery series, under her "real" name, which is Kathy Hogan Trocheck. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Savannah Breeze and Blue Christmas, as well as Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies and Savannah Blues. Her newest novel, Deep Dish, is due out in February 2008.
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| Tina McElroy Ansa |
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Tina McElroy Ansa is a novelist, publisher, filmmaker, teacher and journalist. But above all, she is a storyteller. She grew up in Middle Georgia in the 1950s hearing her grandfather’s stories on the porch of her family home and strangers’ stories downtown in her father’s juke joint. These experiences inspired Mulberry, Georgia, the mythical world of her four novels: Baby of the Family, Ugly Ways, The Hand I Fan With and You Know Better. In March 2007, Ansa launched an independent publishing company, DownSouth Press, with its focus on African-American literature. Her fifth novel, Taking After Mudear, a sequel to her bestselling Ugly Ways, will be the lead title on DownSouth Press’s first list in the fall of 2007.
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| John Berendt |
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Sponsored by Swann Seiler
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John Berendt, formerly the editor of New York Magazine and columnist for Esquire, is the author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil--known in Savannah simply as "The Book." A finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, Midnight spent a record-breaking 216 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has been published in 26 languages, and was adapted for the screen by Clint Eastwood. Berendt's most recent book, The City of Falling Angels, chronicles the entanglements and intrigues of interwoven lives in Venice after the fire that destroyed the La Fenice opera house in 1996. It was published in 2005 and has subsequently been reprinted in 21 foreign editions.
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| Kathryn Stripling Byer |
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Sponsored by Armstrong Atlantic State University
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Kathryn Stripling Byer, Poet Laureate of North Carolina, has published six books of poetry, The Girl in the Midst of the Harvest (1986, AWP Award Series), Wildwood Flower, (LSU Press, 1992, Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets), Black Shawl, (1998), Catching Light, (2001, SIBA BOOK of the Year in Poetry), Wake ( 2002) and Coming to Rest (2006). She is the 2007 recipient of the Hanes Award in Poetry from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Her poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared in journals ranging from The Atlantic Monthly to Appalachian Heritage and in numerous anthologies. She is a native of Southwest Georgia and a 2007 nominee to the Georgia Writers’ Hall of Fame.
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| Erik Calonius |
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Erik Calonius is a former reporter, editor and London-based foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, a staff writer for Fortune magazine and Miami bureau chief for Newsweek. In 2006, Calonius completed his first narrative nonfiction book, The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails. Calonius has collaborated on more than a dozen nonfiction books, most dealing with business and economics.
Appearing at 12:00 noon at the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences
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| Rosemary Daniell |
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Author of Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives, and its prequel, The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself: Writing and Living the Zona Rosa Way, Rosemary Daniell is the founder and leader of the Zona Rosa creative writing workshops in Savannah and Atlanta, attended by such outstanding writers as John Berendt, Bruce Feiler, Cassandra King and Eric Haney. To date, more than 45 Zona Rosans have become published authors. Daniell is the author of two memoirs, Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex and Suicide in the Deep South and Sleeping with Soldiers; five other books of poetry and prose, including a novel, The Hurricane Season; two collections of poetry, A Sexual Tour of the Deep South and Fort Bragg & Other Points South; and a 2001 collection of essays, Confessions of a (Female) Chauvinist. Daniell has been awarded NEA Fellowships in poetry and fiction.
Appearing at 3:00 pm at First African Baptist Church
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