Our growing list of presenters for the 2012 Alabama Book Festival includes:

Click on the blue names for more information about the authors and their books.

 

Peggy Allen -- The Pecan Orchard: Journey of a Sharecropper's Daughter (memoir)

Marlin Barton -- The Cross Garden (fiction)

Hester Bass -- The Secret World of Walter Anderson (children's)

Chip Cooper -- Old Havana: Spirit of the Living City (history / travel / photography)

Tracy Crow -- Eyes Right: Confessions from a Woman Marine (memoir)

Paul Devlin -- Rifftide: The LIfe and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones as Told to Albert Murray (biography)

Foster Dickson -- Children of the Changing South: Accounts of Growing Up During and After Integration (history)

Wayne Flynt -- Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives (historical memoir)

Valerie Gribben -- The Fairytale Trilogy (young adult fiction)

Vanessa Davis Griggs --  Ray of Hope (fiction)

Mark J. Hainds -- The Year of the Pig (nonfiction)

Dan Haulman -- The Tuskegee Airmen, An Illustrated History: 1939-1949 (history)

Homer Hickam -- The Crater (young adult fiction)

Randall Horton -- The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street (poetry)

Rheta Grimsley Johnson -- Hank Hung the Moon . . . and Warmed Our Cold, Cold Hearts (nonfiction)

Suzanne Johnson -- Royal Street (fiction -- urban fantasy)

Christy Jordan -- Southern Plate: Classic Comfort Food That Makes Everyone Feel Like Family (cookbook)

Edwin Marty -- Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival (nonfiction - Year of Alabama Food)

Lisa Patton -- Yankee Doodle Dixie (fiction) 

Gin Phillips -- Come In and Cover Me (fiction)

Taylor Polites -- The Rebel Wife (historical fiction)

Alice Randall -- Ada's Rules (fiction) 

Wendy Reed & Jennifer Horne -- Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality (essays)

Solomon Seay, Jr. -- Jim Crow and Me: Stories from My Life as a Civil Rights Lawyer (memoir, Student Readers Group)

Frank X Walker -- Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride (poetry)

 

 

Readers, if you'd like to send us the name of an author or book you'd like to see at the Festival, click here to send us an email.

 

Authors and publishers, if you'd like us to consider your book for the Festival, click here to submit your request.

 

Click here to see who's presented at past Festivals.