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Dear All,<br><br>
Does everyone know that his weekend (April 28-9) is the Los Angeles Times
Festival of Books? The list of authors is heavy on popular non-fiction,
but there are a number if significant fiction writers and poets
represented (and Susan Straight is a finalist for the fiction
prize.)<br><br>
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/<br><br>
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</a>Here's a list of authors:<br><br>
<a name="A"></a>Chris Abani<br>
Robin Abcarian<br>
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar<br>
Mitch Albom<br>
Sherman Alexie<br>
Amy Alkon<br>
Ted Allen<br>
Stanley Alpert<br>
Daniel Altman<br>
Bill Amend<br>
American Girl<br>
Betsy Amster<br>
M.T. Anderson<br>
Julie Andrews<br>
Debby Applegate<br>
Gustavo Arellano<br>
Govind Armstrong<br>
Anthony Arthur<br>
Reza Aslan<br>
James Atlas <br><br>
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Kage Baker<br>
David Baldacci<br>
Ann Louise Bardach<br>
Michael Barrier<br>
Lidia Bastianich<br>
Karen Grigsby Bates<br>
Bruce Bauman<br>
Will Beall<br>
Richard Beban<br>
Robin Becker<br>
Beethoven's Wig<br>
Erin Belieu<br>
Gioconda Belli<br>
Aimee Bender<br>
Lisa Beres<br>
A. Scott Berg<br>
Debbie Bertram<br>
Peter Biskind<br>
Francesca Lia Block<br>
Susan Bloom<br>
Chris Bohjalian<br>
Sonja Bolle<br>
Rodney Bolt<br>
Elayne Boosler<br>
Max Boot<br>
Coe Booth<br>
Georges Borchardt<br>
Mark Bowden<br>
Anne Bowen<br>
T.C. Boyle<br>
Taylor Branch<br>
Gayle Brandeis<br>
Leo Braudy<br>
Berkeley Breathed<br>
Douglas Brinkley<br>
Jan Burke<br>
Allison Burnett<br>
Ellen Burstyn<br>
Elena Karina Byrne<br><br>
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<a name="C"></a>Liam Callanan<br>
Patty Campbell<br>
Stephen J. Cannell<br>
Hélène Cardona<br>
Ron Carlson<br>
Cecil Castellucci<br>
Joe Cepeda<br>
Vikram Chandra<br>
Rajiv Chandrasekaran<br>
Don Cheadle<br>
Children's Museum of LA<br>
Craig Childs<br>
Mary Higgins Clark<br>
Melissa Clark<br>
Carol Higgins Clark Joshua Clover<br>
Harlan Coben<br>
Tony Cohan<br>
Rich Cohen<br>
Joe Conason<br>
Michael Connelly<br>
Paul Conrad<br>
Marc Cooper<br>
Bernard Cooper<br>
Cat Cora<br>
Miles Corwin<br>
Robert Crais<br>
Steve Crouch<br>
Paul Cummins<br>
Thomas Curwen<br><br>
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<a name="D"></a>Kavita Daswani<br>
Michael Datcher<br>
Meghan Daum<br>
Define-A-Thon<br>
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett<br>
Bruce Dern<br>
William Deverell<br>
Susan Diamond<br>
Jared Diamond<br>
Eric Jerome Dickey Sandra Dijkstra<br>
Gioia Diliberto<br>
Mark Doty<br>
Kirk Douglas<br>
Kim Dower<br>
Alicia Drake<br>
Tom Drury<br>
Tony D'Souza<br>
Samantha Dunn<br><br>
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<a name="E"></a>Hope Edelman<br>
Ben Ehrenreich<br>
Deborah Eisenberg<br>
Ruth Andrew Ellenson<br>
James Ellroy Steve Erickson<br>
Alex Espinoza<br>
Rafe Esquith<br>
Mark Essig<br>
Percival Everett<br><br>
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<a name="F"></a>Mark Fainaru-Wada<br>
Barbara Fairchild<br>
Jerrilyn Farmer<br>
Mike Farrell<br>
Kitty Felde<br>
Joshua Ferris<br>
Scott Fickas<br>
Janet Fitch<br>
Richard Flanagan<br>
Caitlin Flanagan Anne Taylor Fleming<br>
Allan Folsom<br>
Ruth Forman<br>
Lucinda Franks<br>
Mariah Fredericks<br>
Judith Freeman<br>
Roger Friedland<br>
Lisa Fugard<br>
Cornelia Funke<br>
Jim Fusilli<br><br>
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<a name="G"></a>Kate Gale<br>
Chris Gall<br>
Cristina Garcia<br>
Peter Gethers<br>
Ann Gibbons<br>
Jennifer Gilmore<br>
Debra Ginsberg<br>
Dana Gioia<br>
Robin Preiss Glasser<br>
Barry Glassner Jeffrey Goldberg<br>
Tod Goldberg<br>
Amy Goodman<br>
David Goodman<br>
Dana Goodyear<br>
John Green<br>
Seth Greenland<br>
Alice Greenway<br>
Tim Gunn<br><br>
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<a name="H"></a>Steven Hall<br>
Oakley Hall<br>
Judith Hall<br>
Mark Halperin<br>
Fran Halpern<br>
Daniel Halpern<br>
Denise Hamilton<br>
Hill Harper<br>
Peter Harris<br>
Eloise Klein Healy<br>
Chris Hedges<br>
Jane Heller<br>
Jessica Hendra<br>
Beth Henley<br>
Hugh Hewitt HI 5<font size=2><sup>TM<br>
</sup></font>Peter Himmelman<br>
Erik Himmelsbach<br>
S.E. Hinton<br>
Janet Hirshenson<br>
Christopher Hitchens<br>
Ron Hogan<br>
Katharine Holabird<br>
Sue Horton<br>
David Horvath<br>
Robert Lee Hotz<br>
James D. Houston<br>
Arianna Huffington<br>
Edward Humes<br>
Michelle Huneven<br><br>
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<a name="I"></a>Lee Iacocca<br>
Mark Irwin<br>
Walter Isaacson<br>
Barbara Isenberg Michael Isikoff<br>
Tara Ison<br>
Pico Iyer<br><br>
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<a name="J"></a>Matthew Jaffe<br>
Michael Jaime-Becerra<br>
J.A. Jance<br>
Jay Jay the Jet Plane Brian Michael Jenkins<br>
Jane Jenkins<br>
Terri Jentz<br><br>
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<a name="K"></a>Cynthia Kadohata<br>
Eric R. Kandel<br>
Susan Kandel<br>
Zachary Karabell<br>
Alan Katz<br>
Jennifer Kaufman<br>
Douglas Kearney<br>
Andrew Keen<br>
Carolyn Kellogg<br>
Brad Kessler<br>
Kids in the Mix Kidspace Children's Museum<br>
Bridget Kinsella<br>
David Kipen<br>
David Kirk<br>
Jonathan Kirsch<br>
William Kittredge<br>
Norman Klein<br>
Hilary Knight<br>
Bart Kosko<br>
Elizabeth Kostova<br><br>
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<a name="L"></a>Kelly Lange<br>
Laughing Pizza!<br>
Eric Lax<br>
Jim Lehrer<br>
Dinah Lenney<br>
Jill Leovy<br>
Jeffrey Levine<br>
Laura Tyson Li<br>
Dave Lieberman<br>
Kylee Lin<br>
Elinor Lipman<br>
Laura Lippman John Lithgow<br>
Aimee Liu<br>
Dick Lochte<br>
Steve Lopez<br>
M.G. Lord<br>
Lori Lori What's the Story?<br>
Tina Louise<br>
Orli Low<br>
Frank Luntz<br>
Eric Van Lustbader<br>
Lisa Lutz<br><br>
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<a name="M"></a>Karen Mack<br>
Leonard Maltin<br>
Larry Mantle<br>
Merrill Markoe<br>
John Marks<br>
YmaSumac Marañón<br>
Hugo C. Martin<br>
Al Martinez<br>
Demetria Martinez<br>
Connie Martinson<br>
Dan Mathews<br>
Joe Mathews<br>
D. T. Max<br>
Frank McCourt<br>
Janet McCracken<br>
Terry McDermott<br>
Megan McDonald<br>
Dr. Phil McGraw<br>
Bill McKibben<br>
James McManus Daniel Meyers<br>
Jack Miles<br>
Marjorie Miller<br>
Jane Miller<br>
T. Christian Miller<br>
Larry Miller<br>
Wiley Miller<br>
Matt Miller<br>
Kate Moloney<br>
Lee Montgomery<br>
Christopher Moore<br>
David Morrell<br>
Patt Morrison<br>
Ron Morrissette<br>
Walter Mosley<br>
Derek Munson<br>
Bernadette Murphy<br>
Yxta Maya Murray<br>
Carol Muske-Dukes<br><br>
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<a name="N"></a>Ralph Nader<br>
Gina Nahai<br>
Patrick Neate<br>
Kadir Nelson<br>
Sara Nelson<br>
Marion Nestle<br>
Janis Cooke Newman Jim Newton<br>
Bich Minh Nguyen<br>
Christopher Noxon<br>
Laura Numeroff<br>
Kem Nunn<br>
Sari Nusseibeh<br><br>
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<a name="O"></a>Raymond Obstfeld<br>
Randy Olson<br>
Peter Orner<br>
Meghan O'Rourke Jim O'Shea<br>
Peter Osnos<br>
Nick Owchar<br><br>
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<a name="P"></a>Brett Paesel<br>
Greg Palast<br>
T. Jefferson Parker<br>
Todd Parr<br>
Russ Parsons<br>
Stephan Pastis<br>
Nancy Pearl<br>
George Pelecanos<br>
PEN Center USA<br>
Marisha Pessl Glasgow Phillips<br>
Peter Plate<br>
Neal Pollack<br>
Michael Pollan<br>
John Powers<br>
John Prendergast<br>
Eyal Press<br>
Jenny Price<br>
James Prosek<br><br>
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<a name="Q"></a>Sam Quinones Quinto<a name="Q"></a> Sol <br>
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<a name="R"></a>Kit Rachlis<br>
James Ragan<br>
Emily Rapp<br>
Ron Rash<br>
Richard Rayner<br>
Richard Reeves<br>
Nina Revoyr<br>
Susan Salter Reynolds<br>
Pamela Ribon Adam Rivera<br>
Justin Roberts & Not Ready for Naptime Players<br>
Kevin Roderick<br>
Luis J. Rodriguez<br>
Ron Rosenbaum<br>
Thane Rosenbaum<br>
Victoria Rowell<br>
Mark Rozzo<br><br>
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<a name="S"></a>Barney Saltzberg<br>
Lois Sarkisian<br>
Thom Satterlee<br>
John Scalzi<br>
Robert Scheer<br>
Richard Schickel<br>
Erika Schickel<br>
Nick Schou<br>
Peter Schrag<br>
Leslie Schwartz<br>
Donna Seaman<br>
Carolyn See<br>
Lisa See<br>
Danzy Senna<br>
David Shannon<br>
Adam Shatz<br>
Alicia C. Shepard<br>
Michael Shermer<br>
Gary Shteyngart<br>
Barry Siegel<br>
Tom Siegfried Clancy Sigal<br>
Marisa Silver<br>
Michael Silverblatt<br>
Nancy Silverton<br>
Romus Simpson<br>
Bob Sipchen<br>
Ellen Slezak<br>
Michele Slung<br>
Gary Small<br>
Jane Smiley<br>
Mark Haskell Smith<br>
RJ Smith<br>
Martin J. Smith<br>
Nancy Snow<br>
Rebecca Solnit<br>
Jill Soloway<br>
Raphael Sonenshein<br>
Peter Spiegelman<br>
David St. John<br>
Karen Stabiner<br>
Geoffrey Stone<br>
Susan Straight<br>
Andy Summers<br>
Ariel Swartley<br><br>
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<a name="T"></a>Paco Ignacio Taibo<a name="T"></a> II<br>
Stephan Talty<br>
James Taranto<br>
Elizabeth Taylor<br>
Keren Taylor<br>
John Tayman Johnny Temple<br>
The SqueeGees<br>
Gabriel Thompson<br>
Daniel Tiffany<br>
Krista Tippett<br>
Michael Tolkin<br>
Kenneth Turan<br><br>
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<a name="U"></a>David L. Ulin<br><br>
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<a name="V"></a>Katrina vanden Heuval<br>
Sander Vanocur<br>
Gore Vidal Helena Maria Viramontes<br>
Susan Vreeland<br><br>
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<a name="W"></a>Diana Wagman<br>
D.J. Waldie<br>
Michael Walker<br>
Mary Ellen Walker<br>
Daniel Wallace<br>
David Wallechinsky<br>
Amy Wallen<br>
Peter Wallsten<br>
Joseph Wambaugh<br>
Rick Wartzman<br>
Steve Wasserman<br>
Michael Waters<br>
Charles Harper Webb<br>
Robert Weil<br>
Jim Weiss Rosemary Wells<br>
Nancy Werlin<br>
Wendy Werris<br>
Jon Wiener<br>
Marianne Wiggins<br>
Amy Wilentz<br>
Lance Williams<br>
Antoine Wilson<br>
Doug Wilson<br>
Henry Winkler<br>
Don Winslow<br>
Charlie Winton<br>
Daniel Woodrell<br>
Stuart Woods<br>
Jacqueline Woodson<br>
Lawrence Wright<br><br>
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<a name="Y"></a>Martin Yan<br>
Al Young C. Dale Young<br>
John Sacret Young<br><br>
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<a name="Z"></a>Val Zavala Harold Zellman<a name="Z"></a> <br><br>
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John M. Ganim<br>
President, New Chaucer Society<br>
Professor of English<br>
Department of English<br>
University of California, Riverside<br>
900 University Avenue<br>
Riverside CA 92521<br>
TEL (951) 827-1540<br>
FAX (951) 827-3967<br>
ON CAMPUS PHONE 21540<br>
EMAIL John.Ganim@UCR.EDU<br>
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http://www.english.ucr.edu/people/faculty/ganim/index.html<br>
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http://artsci.wustl.edu/~chaucer/<br><br>
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