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William Kittredge is the author of A Hole in the Sky and The Willow Field. His new essay collection will be published in fall 2007. He has received numerous awards including the 2007 Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Times.
Jane Hamilton is the author of The Book of Ruth, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction, and A Map of the World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and named one the top ten books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, the Miami Herald, and People. Both The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World have been selections of Oprah's Book Club.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. Her latest book, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, will be published in September. |
Dear
Book Lover,
Don’t miss the Tenth Annual
Utah Humanities Book Festival!
October 22-28, 2007
The Salt Lake City Main Library
210 East 400 South
The Book Festival is FREE for everyone!
Join us for a week-long gathering of panels, readings, and book signings with authors. Over 50 award-winning authors will be presenting. These include William Kittredge, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Jane Hamilton and many others.
Enjoy letterpress printing, rare book appraisals, hands-on activities for children and free book giveaways for children.
And don’t miss the Define-a-Thon, a fun vocabulary challenge game, hosted by Steve Kleinedler from Houghton-Mifflin Publishers. Contestants include: Rocky Anderson, Kurt Bestor, Pat Bagley, James Davie, Edwin Espinel, Fred Esplin, Doug Fabrizio, Stephanie Harpst, Christy Karras, Joel LaSalle, Theresa Martinez, Holly Mullen, Jacqueline Osherow, Sharon Swenson, Jon Weisberg-and more to come!
You will also love The Saint John’s Bible Project, the first illuminated and hand-lettered Bible created in over 500 years.
The Utah Humanities Book Festival is an event you won’t want to miss!
For more information, including a complete schedule of events, please visit our website at www.utahhumanities.org/BookFestival.htm
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