2010 Author Schedule
M. T. Anderson
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Delaware Public Archives
121 Duke of York Street
Dover, DE [map]
Anderson is the author of Whales on Stilts; The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen; The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, which won the National Book Award; The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II, The Kingdom on the Waves, which is a 2009 Printz Honor Book; The Game of Sunken Places; Burger Wuss; Thirsty; and Feed, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Young Adults. He lives in Vermont and Boston, Massachusetts.
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Charles Todd
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Hockessin Public Library
1023 Valley Road
Hockessin, DE [map]
The Delaware and North Carolina-based, best-selling, mother-son writing team of Caroline and Charles Todd (writing as Charles Todd) are masters of psychologically complex detective stories. The Todds are best known for their New York Times best-selling mystery series of 12 books featuring Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge, set in post-World War I England. Their latest work, An Impartial Witness, is the second book in a new series of murder mysteries featuring WWI battlefield nurse Bess Crawford.
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2009 Author Schedule
David Plouffe
Friday, December 18, 2009
Wilmington University Auditorium
320 DuPont Highway
New Castle, DE
David Plouffe is an American political strategist best known as the chief campaign manager for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. A long-time Democratic Party campaign consultant, he is a partner at the party-aligned campaign consulting firm AKP&D Message and Media, which he joined in 2000. He is author of the book The Audacity to Win — The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory.
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Barbara Graham
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Graham has worked as an essayist and journalist for 25 years. Her articles have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine (where she has been a contributing writer), Time, More, National Geographic Traveler, Food & Wine, Glamour, People, Redbook, Self, Tricycle, Utne Reader, and Vogue. She has written about children and grandchildren, death, insomnia, food and impossible mothers. She is also the author of Women Who Run With Poodles: Myths and Tips for Honoring Your Mood Swings, and several plays.
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M. T. Anderson
Monday, September 14, 2009
Anderson is the author of Whales on Stilts; The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen; The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, which won the National Book Award; The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II, The Kingdom on the Waves, which is a 2009 Printz Honor Book; The Game of Sunken Places; Burger Wuss; Thirsty; and Feed, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Young Adults. He lives in Vermont and Boston, Massachusetts.
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Nikki Giovanni
Friday, February 6, 2009
Poet, activist, mother, and professor Nikki Giovanni was born June 7, 1943, in Knoxville, Tennessee. While a student at Fisk University, she re-established the campus's Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Chapter in 1965. Over the span of thirty years, Nikki has received nineteen honorary degrees from colleges and universities; numerous achievement, humanitarian and recognition awards from government, private and public organizations including Woman of the Year for Ebony, Mademoiselle, Essence, and Ladies Home Journal magazines; YWCA Woman of the Year; Outstanding Woman of Tennessee Award; Ohio Women's Hall of Fame induction; Distinguished Recognition Award, Detroit City Council; McDonald's Literary Achievement Award for Poetry presented in the name of Nikki Giovanni in perpetuity; Outstanding Humanitarian Award, The House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky; two Tennessee Governor's Award in the Arts and in the Humanities; the Virginia Governor's Award; and two NAACP Image Awards for Love Poems and Blues: For All the Changes. Most recently, she was named the first recipient of the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award.
Nikki has been given the keys to more than a dozen cities, including New York City, Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami, New Orleans, and Baltimore. The author of twenty-seven books, including the seminal Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgment, Nikki is University Distinguished Professor/English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. She continues to read her work all across the country.