Sponsors and Friends of the Festival are invited to a books launch party with authors in attendance. Unfortunately, Richard Parker will no longer be able to participate in this event as originally planned.
| Fast Passes: | This event has free Fast Passes. Make reservations |
| Where: | Campus Store - Hot Off the Press (Seats 250, Wheelchair accessible)  |
| When: | Sat, Mar 15, 8:30 am - 9:30 am |
Catherine Bracy is a civic technologist and community organizer whose work focuses on the intersection of technology and political and economic inequality. She is the founder and CEO of TechEquity, was previously Code for America’s senior director of Partnerships and Ecosystem, and founded Code for All....
Sandra Brown is the author of 76 New York Times bestsellers. Writing professionally since 1981, Brown has published more than 80 novels and has upwards of 80 million copies of her books in print worldwide....
TJ Alexander is the author of "Chef’s Kiss," "Chef's Choice," "Second Chances in New Port Stephen" and "Triple Sec." They received their MA in writing and publishing from Emerson College, and they live in New York City with their wife and various houseplants....
Maureen Dowd is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times and an author whose new book, "Notorious," will debut the week of the festival. It is a compilation of stories about celebrities she has known through the years, from Uma Thurman to Greta Gerwig ....
Jack Fairweather is the author of the Costa Book Award-winner "The Volunteer," an international bestseller that’s been hailed as a modern classic and compared to Schindler’s List. He served as a correspondent for The Washington Post and The Daily Telegraph, where he was the paper’s Baghdad and Persian Gulf bureau chief....
Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel, "Call After Midnight," was published....
A graduate of Bisbee High and the University of Arizona. J.A. Jance taught English at Pueblo High in Tucson before trying her hand as a novelist. It proved to be a good idea. Jance will debut her 80th book, "Overkill," at this year's Tucson Festival of Books....
Vanda Krefft has written about women’s issues and popular culture for leading national magazines, including Elle, Redbook, Woman’s Day and Woman’s World, as well as newspapers worldwide through syndication....
Vanessa Le is a graduate from Brown University in Health and Human Biology and now resides in the Pacific Northwest. Her writing is an expression of her love for medicine and her Vietnamese heritage. When not writing, she’s wishing she was writing, studying medicine, and/or spoiling her two Shiba Inus....
Megan Miranda takes beautiful places and turns them sinister in her newest mystery "Daughter of Mine." Miranda is the New York Times bestselling author of "All the Missing Girls," "The Perfect Stranger," "The Last House Guest," "Such a Quiet Place" and "The Last to Vanish....
Susan Morrison is the articles editor of The New Yorker. She is the former editor in chief of the New York Observer and an original editor of SPY magazine. She lives in New York City....
Clay Risen is a reporter at The New York Times, a member of the Society of American Historians, and a fellow at the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. His new book is "Red Scare." He also wrote three previous works on American history, including "The Crowded Hour," a New York Times Notable Book of 2019 and a finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Prize in Military History, "The Bill of the Century," a finalist for a 2014 NAACP Image Award, and "A Nation on Fire....
Lisa Rogak is the bestselling author of numerous books, including "And Nothing But the Truthiness: The Rise (and Further Rise) of Stephen Colbert," and "Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart....
Lucinda Scala Quinn is the author of eight cookbooks, including the bestselling Mad Hungry trilogy and the upcoming "Mother Sauce." Her mantra is, “cook for the ones you love, teach them to cook for themselves and they will pass it on....
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