Tucson Festival of Books

Arizona Stories


Explore the state’s most cherished places, from the Grand Canyon to our very own University of Arizona. Three friends will celebrate the stories and people that make these places special.


Panelists
Gregory McNamee

Gregory McNamee is the author or editor of more than 40 books and author of more than 10,000 periodical pieces. He is a contributing editor to the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" and a contributing writer to Kirkus Reviews, and his writing and photographs have appeared in dozens of magazines and online publications....

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Julie Morrison

Julie Morrison is a poet, memoirist and short story writer.  Her poetry has been published by the San Diego Poetry Annual, the 2020 Arizona Authors Association Literary Awards, and alongside Lisa Schnebly Heidinger's prose in "Arizona Friend Trips....

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Lisa Schnebly Heidinger

Lisa Schnebly Heidinger has authored a dozen books and countless television and newspaper reports of Arizona places famed and obscure. Her children are Sedona and Rye; her dogs have been Happy Jack, Leupp and now Mayer....

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Books:
The University of Arizona
A History in 100 Stories
Gregory McNamee
History / Biography
University of Arizona Press
October 2024
ISBN 9781941451144
304 pages

Arizona Friend Trips
Stories from the Road
Julie Morrison, Lisa Schnebly Heidinger
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
University of Arizona Press
February 2025
ISBN 9780816553709
238 pages