2013 Authors

May 16, 2013 The Festival will host the Landings Club Lunch and Conversation with NY Times Bestselling author, journalist, columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen.

Dave Barry is an author, humorist and Pulitzer Prize winner. His new suspense novel, Insane City, will be published in January.

T.C. Boyle’s novels include World’s End, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the just-published San Miguel.

W. Bruce Cameron is author of the novels A Dog’s Purpose and A Dog’s Journey and the comic memoir 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.

Claire Cook is author of the novel Must Love Dogs, which was made into a film starring John Cusack and Diane Lane.

Richard Paul Evans has written numerous Christian novels. A Winter Dream and the 20th anniversary edition of The Christmas Box were published in October.

Ben Fountain’s Iraq War novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award for Fiction.

Jeff Kinney is author of the popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, which moved to No. 1 on the New York Times Children’s Series list in December 2012.

Beverly Jenkins is author of African-American romance novels, including A Second Helping and A Wish and a Prayer.

Joseph Kanon, a former publishing executive, is author of five 1940s-era spy novels including The Good German and Istanbul Passage.

Kristyn Kusek Lewis has written articles for the New York Times, Real Simple, and Glamour. Her debut novel, How Lucky You Are, was published in September.

Paula McLain is author of The Paris Wife, her breakthrough second novel about the volatile relationship between Ernest and Hadley Hemingway.

Marissa Meyer’s Cinder is a futuristic retelling of Cinderella. The follow-up, Scarlet, will be published in February.

J.R. Moehringer is a journalist, author, and Pulitzer Prize winner. Sutton, his first novel, is about bank robber Willie Sutton.

James Patterson writes the popular Alex Cross and Women’s Murder Club detective series. Private Berlin will be published in January.

Leonard Pitts, Jr., is a syndicated columnist, novelist, and Pulitzer Prize winner. His recent novel, Freeman, is set near the end of the Civil War.

B.A. Shapiro’s debut novel, The Art Forger, a literary thriller set in the art world, was published in October.

Mary Sharratt is author of the historical novels Daughters of the Witching Hill and Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen.

Colm Toibin has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His novella The Testament of Mary was published in November.

Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles was named one of the top novels of 2012 by Amazon and Publishers Weekly.

David Baldacci is the author of numerous political suspense novels, including Absolute Power and the just-published The Forgotten.

Al Gore was vice president from 1993-2000 and is a Nobel Peace Prize winner. The Future, which is about political, economic and environmental change, will be published in January.

James Farmer is an author, floral designer and Southern lifestyle expert. His new book is Wreaths for All Seasons.

Hoda Kotb was named co-anchor of the fourth hour of “Today” in August 2007. She has also been a “Dateline NBC” correspondent since April 1998 and is a New York Times bestselling author for her book, HODA: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer and Kathie Lee.

A.J. Jacobs read the Encyclopedia Britannica in The Know-It-All and grew a really long beard for The Year of Living Biblically. His new book is Drop Dead Healthy.

Heidi Squier Kraft is author of Rule Number Two, a memoir of her seven-month deployment as a Navy psychologist in Iraq.

Don Mann is a former Navy SEAL and author of the memoir Inside Seal Team Six. His novel Hunt the Scorpion will be published in February.

Robert K. Massie is the author of award-winning novelsCatherin the Great and Peter the Great: His Life and World.

Kevin McCarey’s Islands Under Fire is the bizarre tale of his involvement in the preservation of a coral reef off the coast of Puerto Rico.

Daniel Pink, a business writer, is author of A Whole New Mind, Drive, and To Sell Is Human.

Susanna Sonnenberg is author of the 2008 memoir Her Last Death. Her new memoir, She Matters, will be published in January.

Jake Tapper recently joined CNN as anchor of a new weekday program and chief Washington correspondent, and is a former senior White House correspondent for ABC News. The Outpost is about his experiences covering the Afghanistan War.

Evan Thomas is a presidential historian and author of Ike’s Bluff, which chronicles President Dwight Eisenhower’s White House years.

Isabel Wilkerson is a journalist, historian and Pulitzer Prize winner. The Warmth of Other Suns won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Garry Wills is a historian and Pulitzer Prize winner. Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, will be published in February.

Griff and Cheryl Day are owners of Back in the Day Bakery in Savannah. Amazon named their Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook one of the top cookbooks of 2012.

Bobby Deen hosts “Not My Mother’s Meals” on the Cooking Channel. His new cookbook, From Mama’s Table to Mine, will be published in February.

Kimberly Ergul is co-author of A Savannah Christmas: Food, Decor, Tables & Traditions from Savannah & the Low Country.

Jane Fishman is columnist for the Savannah Morning News. The Dirt on Jane is a humorous memoir about gardening and other adventures.

Holley Jaakkola is co-author of A Savannah Christmas: Food, Decor, Tables & Traditions from Savannah & the Low Country.

Jim Morekis is editor in chief of Connect Savannah and author of the Moon Charleston & Savannah, Moon South Carolina, and upcoming Moon Georgia guidebooks.

Mark Murphy is a Savannah physician and author of The Shadow Man, a murder mystery novel.