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Book Festival Cedar City Public Library, October 20th, 2009 from 6-9 pm |
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Featuring Authors Tom Baldwin at 6:00 pm and Ann Cannon at 7:30 pm About Tom
Baldwin has spent over twenty years as a public official, as a Parks and Recreation Commissioner and as a School Board Member. During that time he conducted more public hearings than he cares to remember, but relishes speaking in front of and with a crowd. Tom has been an amateur archaeologist (also for over twenty years) and has a keen interest in Native American mysticism. His book, The Evening and the Morning (2009), won an Honorable Mention in the novel category during the 2008 Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition Awards. About Ann Deseret News columnist and author Ann Cannon will take a candid look at the society in which we live and discuss strategies for getting young adults to rediscover reading.
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Tom Baldwin believes that the Americas were inhabited much earlier than commonly believed. His novel The Evening and the Morning presents supporting research from California's Mojave Desert. Archaeologists agree that by ten to twelve thousand years ago people inhabited North America, but they vigorously disagree about when they first arrived, how they got here, and where they came from. As a rule, the older an archaeological site claims to be, the more controversial it becomes.
Cannon is an award-winning writer of fiction for children and young adults. She is also a newspaper columnist, creative writing teacher, and the mother of five sons. Her first young adult novel, Cal Cameron by Day, Spider-Man by Night, won the Delacorte Press Prize for an outstanding first young adult novel. Since then, she has published a number of books, including a collection of her newspaper columns. Subsequent Young Adult novels have been named on the American Library Association's Best Books lists, while her weekly column in the Deseret News has found a wide readership, both in print and on-line.