September 4-6, 2009

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The AJC Decatur Book Festival Presented by DeKalb Medical
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More than 300 world class, local, and emerging authors will participate in our fourth annual festival. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the authors coming to Decatur this Labor Day weekend:

  • Publishing legend Sir Harold Evans will give our 2009 keynote address. He has served as editor of London’s The Sunday Times and president and publisher of Random House. He’s the author of many critically acclaimed books, including The American Century. In 2004, Evans was knighted for his contributions to the field of journalism. His forthcoming book is My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times.
  • Lee Child, award-winning author of the best-selling thriller series in the world––the Jack Reacher series
  • Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times best-selling author and Avondale Estates resident, returns to the festival with her latest laugh-out-loud bestseller, The Fixer Upper
  • Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin’
  • Barbara Brown Taylor, teacher, preacher, columnist, and author of 11 books
  • Robert Olen Butler, novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the short story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain and Hell
  • Douglas Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the groundbreaking historical expose Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, and Atlanta Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal
  • Alan Deutschman, creator of one of the nation’s most provocative and compelling theories of leadership with a 22-year background in journalism
  • Diana Gabaldon, New York Times bestselling author of the genre-busting Outlander series
  • Sara Gruen, Canadian-born author of the New York Times bestseller Water for Elephants
  • Charlaine Harris, author of the wildly popular Sookie Sackhouse supernatural mysteries, which are the basis for HBO's hit show True Blood
  • Edward Hirsch, multiple award-winning American poet and author of the bestseller How to Read A Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry
  • Bob Lancer, nationally syndicated parenting expert and author of Parenting with Love
  • Karl Mecklenberg, NFL legend and author of Heart of a Student Athlete
  • Kathy Reichs, forensic anthropologist and author of the novels that inspired the hit Fox series “Bones”
  • Sara Shepard, author of the popular young adult fiction series Pretty Little Liars
  • Patricia Smith, 2008 National Book Award finalist, winner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award in Poetry, and four-time individual National Poetry Slam champion
  • Warren St. John, New York Times reporter and author of bestseller Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania and Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town, the latter set in Clarkston, Georgia
  • Kathryn Stockett, local author of The Help, her debut novel which has garnered praise from the AJC, Associated Press, New York Times, USA Today, and People Magazine
  • Natasha Trethewey, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection Native Guard
  • Loren Long, bestselling author and illustrator, who will lead the Saturday morning children’s parade and launch Otis, about a little tractor who befriends a calf
  • Jon Scieszka, Ambassador for Young People's Literature from the Library of Congress
  • Judy Schachner, best-selling author and illustrator of the Skippyjon Jones series of children's books, who will lead the Sunday Mariachi Promenade
  • Kate DiCamillo, award-winning author of Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, and other bestselling books for children and adults

…and the list goes on! Click HERE for a complete listing.

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