October 25–28, 2006

 

        

The Ninth Annual
Great Salt Lake Book Festival
Presented by the Utah Humanities Council

What: Utah's premier literary event. The book festival brings authors from near and far to engage audiences of all ages and interests.
When: Oct. 25-28, main festival; Oct. 19-25, additional events
Who: Public welcome. 15,000 attendees in Salt Lake and in other locations around Utah
Cost: Free
Where: The City Library, 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, Utah
Where else: Festival-related events take place in Delta, Layton, Logan, Price, Provo, and St. George
Contact: Rebecca Batt, Book Festival Director: 801-359-9670 or batt@utahhumanities.org

Tune in to KCPW for live presentations by Richard Bushman, at 8 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 26; Ken Jennings, at 8 p.m., Friday, Oct. 27; and Ivan Doig at 2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 28.

Please also tune into the following media sponsors for pre-Book Festival interviews with authors and other event information.

Activities include:

Workshops, author interviews, readings, book signings, book-related exhibitors, publishing information, a slam poetry workshop and performance, a silent auction of rare books, and hands-on demonstrations in papermaking, paper decorating, letterpress printing, and bookbinding. For children: bookmaking workshops, book-related mask-making activities, artists performing book-related dances and music, and story readings both by and for children.

Print Book Festival Program (pdf)

This year's authors and presenters include:
Mary Amato, award-winning author of numerous children’s books, including The Word Eater, The Naked Mole-Rat Letters, Drooling and Dangerous, and Please Write in this Book.   Members of The Assistance League ® of Salt Lake City, will be reading and giving away children’s books throughout the day.  
Phyllis Barber, a native of Nevada who loves the West and the people who settled it and live in it now. Her books include How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir. Barber hopes for tougher, more raw-edged and conscionably self-aware stories about it.  

George Bilgere, a professor at John Carroll University, who won Utah State University’s 2006 May Swenson Poetry Award for his collection Haywire.

 

The Book Arts Program at the J. Willard Marriott Library, which encourages appreciation for the history and art of the book through bookmaking workshops along with classes, lectures, exhibitions, and community outreach.

  A tribute to the late Utah Poet Laureate Ken Brewer. The short film, titled “A Song for Ken Brewer,” features David Lee, Katherine Coles, Alex Caldiero, Davis County Senator Greg Bell, and others.  

Peter Brown, a children’s author who discovered at a young age that he loved to write and draw. He recently published his second picture book, Chowder, following his children’s book debut, Flight of the Dodo.

 
Betsy Burton, owner of The King's English Bookshop, will talk about her own memoir, The King's English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller and will moderate the panel on memoir.  
Our Thursday night keynote speaker, Richard L. Bushman, Professor of History, Emeritus, at Columbia University and author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling.  

Hal Cannon, the founding Director of the Western Folklife Center and its famous child, the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. Cannon has published a dozen books and recordings on the folk arts of the West including his best selling anthology, Cowboy Poetry, A Gathering.

 

Jeff Carney is an English professor at Snow College and lives in Ephraim, Utah. At thirteen, he was sent to boarding school in Pennsylvania, an experience that inspired his first novel, The Adventures of Michael MacInnes.

 

University of Utah professor and prize-winning historian Elizabeth Clement, author of the book Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945.

  
Anne Collier, editor of Net Family News and co-author of MySpace Unraveled, a brief, clear-eyed introduction to both the site and its attraction for teenage social networking.  
Chris Crowe, a professor of English at BYU and the author of two award-winning books related to the Emmett Till case: Mississippi Trial, 1955 and Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case.  
Rev. France Davis, pastor of the historic Calvary Missionary Baptist Church of Salt Lake City and author of France Davis: An American Story Told.

 
Klancy de Nevers, author of The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl Bendetsen, Perry Saito and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II , a finalist for the 2005 Utah Book Award in nonfiction.  

Ivan Doig, author of the award-winning memoir, This House of Sky. His latest book is The Whistling Season, which takes place in rural Montana.

  
Carlos N.M. Eire, this year’s Sterling M. McMurrin Lecture on Religion and Culture, will present Wednesday, October 25, at 8 PM at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts Dumke Auditorium. Eire will speak on “Spiritual Apartheid: Protestantism and the Reformation of the Hereafter.”  
Dani Eyer, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah. Eyer will lead a panel discussion on writing about human rights issues.  
Nationally recognized journalist and author Anne Taylor Fleming is the author of Marriage: a Duet, Motherhood Deferred: a Woman’s Journey, and this year’s As if Love Were Enough.  

Journalist Karl Fleming's book is Son of the Rough South: an Uncivil Memoir. Born in the South and raised in an orphanage during the Depression, Fleming became Newsweek's lead civil rights reporter at the height of the movement in the mid-1960s.

 
Jennifer Grillone works as a senior editor at Gibbs Smith , Publisher, where she manages the children’s and cookbook lines.  
Shannon Hale is the author of the New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor Medal winning Princess Academy, as well as three companion novels The Goose Girl, Enna Burning, and River Secrets.  

The University of Utah Guest Writers Series presents an informal discussion with poet Robert Hass. Hass was the United States Poet Laureate from 1995-1997 and is also an environmentalist and teacher.

  
Independent reporter Steve Hendricks, spent four years interviewing sources and suing the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act to uncover the truth about the modern struggle between the U.S. government and American Indians. The result is his book The Unquiet Grave.  
Performance poet Jean Howard participated in the original development of the internationally acclaimed “Poetry Slam.” Her poetry has appeared in over seventy literary publications.  
Ken Jennings, record-breaking Jeopardy! winner and recent author of BRAINIAC: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia.  
Author and book critic Walter Kirn. Kirn’s book Thumbsucker was made into a critically acclaimed film. His recent book is Mission to America.  
Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore, author of New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth Century Manhattan. Lepore is a professor of history at Harvard University.  
Dawn Marano, president of Dawn Marano & Associates, LLC, has been described as a “writers’ editor.” Her memoir, Trusting the Edge, won the Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition for Nonfiction Book in 2005.  
Tracie Morris, a poet, performer, and scholar. She teaches at Eastern Michigan University.  
Roz Newmark and Mary Johnston-Coursey, dancers and musicians who have been performing, teaching, and creating for the stage since the mid-1980’s.  
The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, which has produced its first legend-based book, Coyote Steals Fire with writer and illustrator Tamara Zollinger.  
Peter Rock, author of the novels The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, This is the Place, and Carnival Wolves, and a story collection, The Unsettling, published in March, 2006.  
Dave Sim and Gerhard, internationally recognized graphic novelists whose masterpiece is Cerebus, one of the first graphic novels ever produced. Their work has raised the industry standard for what a graphic novel can accomplish.  
Susan Straight, author of six novels. Her most recent, A Million Nightingales, was published by Pantheon in March 2006, and her first middle grade reader, The Friskative Dog, will be published by Knopf in March 2007.  
Janet Tashjian, winner of an ALA Best Books for Young Adults and New York Public Library Best Book Award for The Gospel According to Larry.  
Mark A. Taylor, the Executive Editor and Publisher of Juniper Press.  
Stephen Trimble, photographer, writer, and naturalist. Trimble's twenty books illuminate our relationship with homeland, Indian land, and wildland, including his latest book, Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography.  
Luis Alberto Urrea, a poet, novelist, and essayist. He is the author of Salt Lake City Reads Together selection The Devil’s Highway.  
Gene Valentine, master printer and papermaker at the Almond Tree Press & Paper Mill in Tempe, Arizona, where he produces fine limited-edition books and other typographical artwork.  
Rita Williams, author of If the Creek Don’t Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War.  
Laurence Yep, who has a Ph.D. in American literature, and has written over sixty books and plays for children and adults, including Dragonwings and Dragon’s Gate.  
Tamara Zollinger, who has published books with two different Native American Tribes: The Confederated Tribes of the Goshute with Pia Toya, and the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation with Coyote Steals Fire.  
“Writing About Human Rights,” a panel discussion moderated by Dani Eyer and featuring Klancy de Nevers, Steve Hendricks, Karl Fleming, and Luis Urrea.  
“Going Local: Connecting Local Publishers and Writers,” a panel discussion moderated by Guy Lebeda and featuring Jennifer Grillone, Dawn Marano, and Mark Taylor.  

“The Fertile Field of Memories,” a panel discussion on writing the memoir, moderated by Betsy Burton and featuring Phyllis Barber, France Davis, and Rita Williams.

  

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Schedule:

  • PRE-FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:

    Oct. 19 at 7P in Delta: Young adult author Chris Crowe presents at the Delta City Library
    Oct. 19 at 7P in Logan: Poet George Bilgere at USU, Haight Alumni House
    Oct. 20 at noon in Provo: Poet George Bilgere at BYU, Harold B. Lee Library auditorium
    Oct. 21, 9A–4P at the Salt Lake City Main Library: Book-art specialist Tamara Zollinger teaches an all-ages workshop, “The Art of the Storybook,” on writing and illustrating children’s books
    Oct. 25–28 in St. George: the first annual St. George Book Festival, with events Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings and a full roster of authors and activities on Saturday. For more information, visit www.sgcity.org/sgbookfestival
    Oct. 26 at 7P in Price: Author Rita Williams presents at the Price City Library
    Oct. 27 at 7P in Layton: Author Rita Williams presents at the Layton Heritage Museum

 

  • MAIN FESTIVAL SCHEDULE IN SALT LAKE CITY:

Oct. 25 at 8P: Carlos Eire - Dumke Auditorium, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah
Oct. 26 at 8P: Richard Bushman - Salt Lake City Main Library Auditorium
Oct. 27, noon-2P: Robert Hass - Salt Lake City Main Library 4th Floor Conference Room
Oct. 27, noon–5P: Dave Sim and Gerhard - Salt Lake City Main Library Auditorium
Oct. 27 at 8P: Ken Jennings - Salt Lake City Main Library Auditorium
Oct. 28, 10A–6P: All-day festival

Print Book Festival Program (pdf)

For more information call Utah Humanities at 801-359-9670.