2012 Authors

Dawn Baker grew up in rural Riceboro, GA, population 750, but she never let her small town roots stand in …

Malcolm Beith is a British-American journalist and writer. Based in Mexico City from 2007 to 2010 as an editor of The News, …

Nan K. Chase has written about nuclear energy and beauty pageants, the history of Islam and the history of the …

Books (all nonfiction): “The Heart of Everything That Is: The Life and Times of Red Cloud, the Most Powerful Warrior …

Patricia Cohen has been a New York Times reporter for thirteen years. She has also worked at The Washington Post and Rolling Stone. Her stories have …

Conroy’s latest work, My Reading Life, celebrates the writers and stories that influenced, beguiled and led him to become a …

Jeffery Deaver is the international bestselling author of twenty-eight novels, including Edge,The Burning Wire, Roadside Crosses, The Sleeping Doll, and The Cold Moon. His books …

Charles Faudree’s nearly four decades as an interior designer have allowed him to work throughout the United States and Europe. …

Randy Fertel is president of both the Fertel Foundation and the Ruth U. Fertel Foundation, and co-founded the Ridenhour Prizes for …

Jamie Ford is the great grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Kaiping, China, to San Francisco …

Jennifer Guthrie Ryan and Hugh Stiles Golson, Andrew Low and the Sign of the Buck: Trade, Triumph, Tragedy at the …

Melissa Fay Greene is an award-winning author of five books of nonfiction. Twice nominated for the National Book Award, her …

Jennifer Griffin and Greg Myre have been covering international affairs since the day they met in 1989 at an overflowing …

S. C. Gwynne is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared extensively on Time, for which he worked as bureau …

Laura Harrington, award winning playwright, lyricist and librettist, winner of the 2008 Kleban Award for “most promising librettist in American …

Amy was born in Seattle, WA in 1972, the youngest of three children. She graduated from Western Washington University in 1994 …

Susan Millar Williams is the author of a biography of Julia Peterkin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist from South Carolina. A …

Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. …

Mark Jarman is the author of 10 books of poetry:  North Sea (Cleveland State University Press, 1978), The Rote Walker …

New York Times bestselling author, Craig Johnson, has received high praise for his Sheriff Walt Longmire novels The Cold Dish, …

Nominated for the 2012 NAACP Image Award Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction.  Ceremony will be in Los Angeles on 2/17/12.  …

Hillary Jordan’s first novel, Mudbound, was the winner of the 2006 Bellwether Prize for fiction and an Alex Award from …

Inheriting the historical gene from her professor father, Martha Keber studied history at the University of Redlands as an undergraduate …

Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. He …

Irshad Manji is the best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam Today and, most recently, Allah, Liberty and Love. Oprah …

A graduate of Yale University and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, Karl Marlantes served as a Marine in Vietnam, …

Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of In Country, Clear Springs, and Shiloh and Other Stories, among other books. She is the …

Carol Megathlin lives in Savannah, Georgia, with her husband Bill, a retired college professor. They have one grown son, Bill, …

Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin have been covering international affairs since the day they met in 1989 at an overflowing …

Stewart O’Nan is the author of thirteen novels, including Emily, Alone¸ Songs for the Missing, Last Night at the Lobster, Faithful (written with Stephen King), A Prayer …

Michael Oher was born in Memphis, Tennessee, where he made his way through the foster care system and experienced periods of …

Taylor M. Polites grew up in Alabama, Georgia and Texas, received his BA in History and French from Washington University in …

Since founding her catering company in 1994, chef to the stars LULU POWERS has become one of Los Angeles’s most …

As Spencer Quinn, Peter Abrahams writes the Chet and Bernie mystery series, the first of which, DOG ON IT, reached …

Georgia author Janisse Ray’s new book is part lovesong to the Altamaha River and part rant against the forces that …

Sonny Seiler (right) is an attorney in Savannah. He is the owner of the English bull­dogs who have served as the …

Captain Scotty Smiley, a Ranger and combat-diver qualified infantryman, was the Army’s first active-duty, blind officer and its first blind …

Libbie Summers has a special way with words and pork! Her first solo book, The Whole Hog Cookbook, is a …

Brad Thor is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Full Black, The Athena Project, Foreign Influence (one of …

Nominated for the 2012 NAACP Image Aware Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction.  Ceremony will be in Los Angeles on 2/17/12 …

John Warley has recently published his second novel entitled The Moralist, A Tale of People and Events in Centerfied, Texas …

Virginia Willis has cooked Lapin Normandie with Julia Child, prepared lunch for President Clinton, and catered a bowling party for …