Tucson Festival of Books

Lights! Camera! Authors?


Ed Burns and Lou Diamond Phillips are best-known for the roles they have played on screen, but both became authors ... authors with stories to tell. Luckily, they'll share some of those stories with us in this sure-to-please hour of insights and laughs.


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Edward Burns

Born in Woodside, Queens and raised on Long Island, Edward Burns has made 14 feature films as a writer-director-actor and starred in many films, including "Saving Private Ryan." In 2015, he published "Independent Ed," an inside look at his two decades as a pioneer in independent filmmaking....

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Lou Diamond Phillips

As a multi-faceted writer, Lou Diamond Phillips co-wrote the screenplays for "Trespasses,"and "Dangerous Touch," and wrote the screenplay for "Ambition." His romantic comedy "Burning Desire" premiered at The Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury, Connecticut, where he also performed the role of Lucifer....

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Books:
A Kid from Marlboro Road
A Novel
Edward Burns
Fiction / Literature
Seven Stories Press
August 2024
ISBN 9781644214077
224 pages
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The Tinderbox: Underground Movement
Lou Diamond Phillips
Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror
Aethon Books, LLC
November 2024
ISBN 9781964505008
354 pages
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