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EZthe washington post
wednesday, august28
,
2019
GENRE FICTION HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
10-10:50: Panel: Western Writers. Johnny D.
Boggs has won six awards from the Western
Writers of America. His most recent book is
“The Kansas City Cowboys” (Blackstone).
Anne Hillerman has continued the Navajo
Tribal Police mystery series her father, the
author Tony Hillerman, created beginning in
1970. Her debut novel, “Spider Woman’s
Daughter,” followed the further adventures of
the characters Tony Hillerman made famous.
“Spider Woman’s Daughter” received the
Spur Award for Best First Novel from the
Western Writers of America. The newest book
in the series is “The Tale Teller”
(HarperCollins). Paul Andrew Hutton is an
American cultural and military historian,
author, documentary writer and television
personality. He is the recipient of numerous
awards for his print and television writing,
including six Spur Awards. His latest book is
“The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo,
the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who
Started the Longest War in American History”
(Broadway). Craig Johnson is the best-selling
author of the Sheriff Walt Longmire mysteries,
which have been translated into 14
languages. The novels are the basis for the
A&E television series “Longmire.” Johnson is
a recipient of the Spur Award for fiction. His
most recent novel is “Depth of Winter”
(Viking). Signing 11:30-12:30.
11-11:45: Victoria “V.E.” Schwab (see bio
under Children’s Purple stage) Signing 1:30-
2:30.
12-12:45: Seanan McGuire is a writer of
urban fantasy, horror and apocalyptic fiction,
and the author of the Hugo, Nebula and Alex
award-winning Wayward Children series, the
October Daye series and many other works.
She also writes darker fiction under the
pseudonym Mira Grant. Her most recent book
is “Middlegame” (Tor). Signing 1:30-2:30.
1-1:45: John Scalzi, a former president of
the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of
America, is the author of several science
fiction novels, including books in his Old
Man’s War universe series. His other novels
include the bestsellers “Lock In,” “Fuzzy
Nation” and “Redshirts,” which won a Hugo
Award in 2013. His latest novels include
“Head On” and “The Consuming Fire” (Tor).
Signing 2:30-3:30.
2-2:45: For the past eight years, Brianna
Labuskes has worked as an editor at small-
town papers and national media
organizations, covering politics and policy.
“One Step Behind,” a historical romance
novel, was released in 2016. Her new novel is
“Girls of Glass” (Thomas & Mercer). Signing
3:30-4:30.
3-3:45: Charlie Jane Anders’s latest novel
is “The City in the Middle of the Night” (Tor).
She is also the author of “All the Birds in the
Sky,” which won the Nebula, Crawford and
Locus awards, and “Choir Boy,” which won a
Lambda Literary Award. Her short fiction has
appeared in Tor.com, Boston Review, Tin
House and many other publications. Anders
also co-hosts the podcast “Our Opinions Are
Correct” with Annalee Newitz. Signing 4:30-
5:30.
5-5:45: Joe Ide grew up in South Central Los
Angeles, the setting for his series of crime
novels featuring his recurring character
Isaiah Quintabe. Before writing “IQ,” he held a
variety of jobs, including Hollywood
screenwriter. “IQ” won the Anthony, Macavity
and Shamus awards for best debut novel.
Ide’s latest publication is “Wrecked: An IQ
Novel” (Mulholland). Signing 6:30-7:30.
6-6:45: Sara Paretsky and her acclaimed
private eye, V.I. Warshawski, helped
transform the role of women in contemporary
crime fiction, beginning with the publication
of “Indemnity Only” in 1982. Among her
honors, Paretsky received the Cartier
Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime
achievement from the Crime Writers’
Association and was named Ms. Magazine’s
1987 Woman of the Year. Her most recent
novel is “Shell Game: A V.I. Warshawski
Novel” (William Morrow). Signing 4:30-5:30.
7-7:45: James Ellroy is a crime-fiction writer
and essayist. His L.A. Quartet novels — “The
Black Dahlia,” “The Big Nowhere,” “L.A.
Confidential” and “White Jazz” — have won
numerous awards and are international
bestsellers. His novel “American Tabloid” was
Time magazine’s Best Book (fiction) for 1995.
His new novel is “This Storm” (Knopf). Signing
5:30-6:30.
10-10:45: David Maraniss is a Pulitzer Prize-
winning journalist who has been affiliated with
The Washington Post for more than 40 years.
He is the author of 11 books, including the
critically acclaimed bestsellers “When Pride Still
Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi,” “Barack
Obama: The Story” and “Rome 1960: The
Summer Olympics That Stirred the World.” His
most recent book is “A Good American Family:
The Red Scare and My Father” (Simon &
Schuster). Signing 11:30-12:30.
11-11:45: Joanne B. Freeman is one of the
nation’s leading experts on the politics and
political culture of the Revolutionary and early
national periods of American history. She is
the author of the new book “The Field of
Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to
Civil War” (Farrar Straus Giroux). A co-host of
the popular history podcast “BackStory,”
Freeman appears frequently in
documentaries on PBS and the History
Channel, including in PBS’s Great
Performances documentary “Hamilton’s
America.” Signing 12:30-1:30.
12-12:45: Brenda Wineapple, a nonfiction
writer, literary critic and essayist, started her
newest book, “The Impeachers: The Trial of
Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just
Nation” (Random House), six years ago.
Wineapple has also written several books that
focus on 19th-century American writers,
including Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel
Hawthorne and Gertrude and Leo Stein.
Signing 1:30-2:30.
1-1:45: While studying for an MBA at Harvard
Business School, Casey Gerald co-founded
MBAs Across America, for which he is chief
executive. Gerald has been featured on
MSNBC, at TED and SXSW, on the cover of
Fast Company, and in the New York Times. His
new book is “There Will Be No Miracles Here: A
Memoir” (Riverhead). Signing 2:30-3:30.
2-2:45: Conversation: Native American
History. Colin G. Calloway, a British American
historian, is the John Kimball Jr. 1943
Professor of History and of Native American
Studies at Dartmouth College. His books
include his most recent, “The Indian World of
George Washington: The First President, the
First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation”
(Oxford University), as well as “Pen and Ink
Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in
American Indian History” and “First Peoples: A
Documentary Survey of American Indian
History.” Writer, critic and academic David
Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake
Reservation in Minnesota. He is the author of
four novels, most recently “Prudence,” and
two books of nonfiction. He has a PhD in
anthropology and teaches literature and
creative writing at the University of Southern
California. His new book is “The Heartbeat of
Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to
the Present” (Riverhead). Signing 3:30-4:30.
3-3:45: Elaine Weiss is an award-winning
journalist and writer whose work has
appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times
and the Christian Science Monitor. She is also
the author of “Fruits of Victory: The Woman’s
Land Army of America in the Great War.” Her
new book is “The Woman’s Hour: The Great
Fight to Win the Vote” (Viking). Signing 4:30-
5:30.
4-4:45: Douglas Brinkley is a professor of
history at Rice University, a contributing editor
to Vanity Fair magazine and the history
commentator for CNN. His more recent books
include “Cronkite,” “The Wilderness Warrior”
and “Rightful Heritage.” His two-volume,
annotated “The Nixon Tapes” won the Arthur
S. Link-Warren F. Kuehl Prize for an
outstanding collection of primary source
materials. His new book is “American
Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great
Space Race” (Harper). Signing 5:30-6:30.
5-5:45: Journalist and historian Evan Thomas
is the author of several books, including the
best-selling “John Paul Jones,” “Sea of
Thunder” and “Being Nixon.” Thomas has
taught writing and journalism at Harvard and
Princeton, where, from 2007 to 2014, he was
Ferris Professor of Journalism at the latter. His
new book is “First: Sandra Day O’Connor”
(Random House). Signing 6:30-7:30.
6-6:45: British historian and journalist
Andrew Roberts is the best-selling author of
“The Storm of War: A New History of the
Second World War,” “Masters and
Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in
the West, 1941-1945” and “Napoleon: A Life,”
winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for
biography. His new book is “Churchill: Walking
with Destiny” (Viking). Signing 1:30-2:30.
PHILIPPA GREGORY4-4:45: Conversation: Historical ELLIOTT O'DONOVAN
Novels. Margaret George is the
best-selling author of novels of
biographical historical fiction,
including “Elizabeth I,” “Helen of
Troy,” “Mary Queen of Scotland and
the Isles” and “The Autobiography of
Henry VIII.” Most recently, she
published a two-book series about
the Roman emperor Nero: “The
Confessions of Young Nero” and “The
Splendor Before the Dark: A Novel of
the Emperor Nero” (Berkley).
Philippa Gregory (above) is the
author of “The Other Boleyn Girl,”
which has twice been adapted into
film. Many of her novels are set
during England’s Tudor period,
though she has set books in several
other periods. Her new novel is
“Tidelands” (Atria). Signing 5:30-6:30.
7-7:45: Rick Atkinson, who spent
nearly 15 years working on his World
War II trilogy, was a staff writer and
senior editor at The Washington Post
for 25 years. He is the author of “The
Long Gray Line,” “Crusade,” “In the
Company of Soldiers” and the best-
selling Liberation Trilogy. A winner of
Pulitzer prizes for history and
journalism, he has also won many
other awards, including the George
Polk Award and the Pritzker Military
Museum and Library Literature
Award. Atkinson’s new book is “The
British Are Coming: The War for
America, Lexington to Princeton,
1775-1777” (Henry Holt). He lives in
Washington. Signing 5:30-6:30.