Authors
The AJC DBF will feature lectures and signings from 250 national and local best-selling authors, representing all genres of books. Confirmed authors include:
- Amiri Baraka, (a.k.a. LeRoi Jones), former New Jersey Poet Laureate
- Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Prince of Frogtown”
- Pearl Cleage, Oprah’s Book Club and Atlanta Reads author
- Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate and New York State Poet Laureate
- John Dean, former White House Counsel to Richard Nixon, now an independent fiercely critical of the Republican party
- Eric Jerome Dickey, Bestselling, wildly popular author of hot fiction including "Sleeping with Strangers," "Waking with Enemies," and, most recently, "Pleasure." He also authored "Storm," a graphic novel telling the love story between the X-Men's Storm and Black Panther.
- Emily Giffin, bestselling author of “Love the One You’re With”
- John Bemelmans Marciano, author of the first new “Madeline”
book in 50 years; grandson of the original series author
- Kathleen Parker, a conservative political commentator, her column appears in over 350 newspapers nationwide. She appears frequently on "The Chris Matthews Show" and "The O'Reilly Factor." Author of "Save the Males."
- Sara Shepard, author of the “Pretty Little Liars” series
- Lee Smith, bestselling author of American fiction, including “On Agate Hill”
- Robert Scheer, host of "Left, Right, Center," a political debate show syndicated nationally by Public Radio International, he is also a nationally syndicated political columnist with the San Francisco Chronicle and a contributing editor to The Nation.
- Karin Slaughter, bestselling author of thrillers, including “Fractured”
- Haywood Smith, bestselling author of “The Red Hat Club” and other novels
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