Members of The Assistance League ® of Salt Lake City, will be reading and giving away over 1,000 children’s books throughout the day.

Christopher Kimball Bigelow is the author of Mormonism for Dummies, The Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer, and Conversations with Mormon Authors. He co-founded and edited the Mormon literary magazine Irreantum and The Sugar Beet.

Author, musician, and yoga teacher, Charlotte Bell has taught yoga and meditation for more than two decades. Her latest book, Mindful Yoga, Mindful Life:  A Guide for Everyday Practice, explains the yoga philosophy and how to apply it to daily life.

Hal Cannon is the founding Director of the Western Folklife Center and has published a dozen books and recordings on the folk arts of the West. Cannon will interview keynote speaker William Kittredge Saturday evening, October 27.

Cecil Castellucci is the author of young adult novels Boy Proof and The Queen of Cool. She is launching a new graphic novel series, The Plain Janes, geared toward girls.

Greer Chesher hopes to ride her horse from Scotland’s northern tip to England’s southern coast, writing all the way, as soon as someone recognizes the project’s brilliance and steps forth with the necessary funds.

Katharine Coles, University of Utah Associate Professor of English, was appointed Utah's new poet laureate in October, 2006.

Activities for Children. Ahoy matey! Come for pirate-themed interactive crafts, readings, and performances. Pirate costumes are encouraged. And don’t miss children’s authors Ann Cannon, Pat Mora, Carla Morris, and Rick Walton.

The Define-a-Thon is a fun, competitive word game—a cross between Jeopardy! and Wait Wait. Don’t Tell Me! Senior Editor Steve Kleinedler from Houghton-Mifflin Publishers will moderate.

Brad Dimock continues to win awards with his definitive works on the pioneering rivermen of the Colorado. He spent more than three decades as a working boatman on that river and tells the tales as only someone who has stood around a thousand campfires can.

Don Gale’s career as a writer spans many years and many writing forms, including non-fiction, fiction, television, radio, newspaper, and public speaking. He earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Utah.

Jane Hamilton is the author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World. Her latest book, When Madeline Was Young, was published in 2006.

Janette Turner Hospital is the award-winning author of eight novels, including Oyster and The Last Magician. She is Distinguished Carolina Professor of Literature at the University of South Carolina.

Lynn Kilpatrick earned her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Utah. Her story "What Idaho Offers" won this year's Utah Arts Council prize and her short story collection, The Infinite Cages, won the Utah Arts Council prize last year.

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.

Muffy Mead-Ferro is the author of Confessions of a Slacker Mom and Confessions of a Slacker Wife. She works in advertising and lives in Salt Lake City with her husband and two children.

Carla Morris is a librarian of more than 20 years and a first-time author of The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians. She lives in Mapleton, Utah.

Roz Newmark and Mary Johnston-Coursey, dancers and musicians who have been performing, teaching, and creating for the stage since the mid-1980s.

Ken Sanders owns and operates Ken Sanders Rare Books, a used and rare bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City and has been in the book trade for 35 years. For the past two seasons, he has been an appraiser on the popular PBS series, The Antiques Road Show.

Delta: Brandon Sanderson is the author of young adult fantasy novels noted for their unique settings and characters. His works include Elantris and the Mistborn trilogy. He teaches part-time at Brigham Young University.

Hampton Sides is editor-at-large for Outside magazine, and the author of Ghost Soldiers and Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West.

Margot Singer's collection of linked short stories, The Pale of 
Settlement, won the 2006 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She teaches creative writing at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

Annick Smith is a writer, editor, and filmmaker who lives in Montana’s Blackfoot River valley.  Her books include Homestead, In This We are Native, and Big Bluestem, Journey into the Tallgrass.

Second Annual St. George Book Festival, October 24-27. Featuring readings, panels, workshops, book sales and signings, hands-on activities for children, a Rare Book Roadshow and much more.

Luci Tapahonso is Professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she teaches Poetry Writing and American Indian Literature.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. Her latest book, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, was published in September.

Utah Literary Awards Ceremony The Utah Humanities Council will honor the winners of the Utah Arts Council’s 2007 Original Writing Competition, the winners of the Utah Center for the Book’s 2007 Utah Book Awards, and the winner of the 2007 May Swenson Poetry Award.

Third District Juvenile Court of Salt Lake City Judge Andrew Valdez is the author of No One Makes It Alone, his story of being a poor, fatherless, Westside Latino paperboy plucked off a wintry street corner by a business owner who mentors and fathers him.

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.

Tony Weller is a third generation bookseller and is President and principle owner of Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore, which was founded in 1929.

Workshop: The Art of the Book. “Modern Illumination Techniques for Medieval Success,” a workshop for all ages. Learn two basic methods of illumination from Louona Tanner.

Christine Allen-Yazzie is the author of the novel The Arc and the Sediment, which was awarded a first-place prize for best novel by the Utah Arts Council in 2001, as well as a subsequent publication prize for best book-length work.

Sara Zarr's young adult novel Story of a Girl is a 2007 National Book Award Nominee. For more information, click here. Her second book for young adults, Sweethearts, will be published in spring 2008.

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