Tucson Festival of Books

Adventures in Writing


Join three acclaimed authors as they reveal how to investigate hidden histories, chase scientific mysteries, and shape real events into vivid, page-turning narratives. Learn how rigorous research, storytelling craft, and curiosity fuel their adventurous nonfiction.


Panelists
David Baron

David Baron is a prizewinning author, journalist, broadcaster, and public speaker, who writes about science and the American West. A former science correspondent for NPR, he comes to the festival with "The Martians," a look at America's fascination with alien beings in the early 1900s....

Olivia Campbell

Olivia Campbell is The New York Times bestselling author of "Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine" and "Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History....

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Nathalia Holt

Nathalia Holt, Ph.D., is The New York Times bestselling author of "Rise of the Rocket Girls," "The Beast in the Clouds," "The Queens of Animation," "Wise Gals," and "Cured." She has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Slate, Popular Science, PBS, and Time....


Books:
The Martians
The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-Of-the-Century America
David Baron
History / Biography
Liveright Publishing Corporation
August 2025
ISBN 9781324090663
336 pages
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Sisters in Science
How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
Olivia Campbell
Science / Medicine / Technology
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
February 2026
ISBN 9780778333395
352 pages
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The Beast in the Clouds
The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
Nathalia Holt
History / Biography
Atria/One Signal Publishers
July 2025
ISBN 9781668027745
288 pages
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