2016 Southern Festival of Books
It was a perfect weekend in October for readers and writers
Yaa Gyasi, author of HOMEGOING
Winston Groom, author of EL PASO
Volney Gay, author of ON THE PLEASURES OF OWNING PERSONS (with Barbara Gay); Alice Randall, co-author of SOUL FOOD LOVE
Timothy S. Huebner, author of LIBERTY AND UNION
Tiana Clark, author of EQUILIBRIUM
Chapter 16's Stephen Usery; Daniel Connolly, author of THE BOOK OF ISAIAS
Sherrilyn Kenyon, author of THE DARK-HUNTER series
Robert Olen Butler, author of PERFUME RIVER
Roshani Chokshi, author of THE STAR-TOUCHED QUEEN
Mary Laura Philpott, author of PENGUINS WITH PEOPLE PROBLEMS, photographing Chapter 16's Sarah Carter and Kate Parrish of Rivendell Writers' Colony
Sharon Cameron, author of THE FORGETTING.
Odie Lindsey, author of WE COME TO OUR SENSES
Nicki Pendleton Wood, author of SOUTHERN COOKING FOR COMPANY; Kristin O'Donnell Tubb, author of JOHN LINCOLN CLEM
Meredith Russo, IF I WAS YOUR GIRL
Maria Dahvana Headley, author of AERIE; Victoria Schwab, author of THIS SAVAGE SONG
Marlena Jones of the Tennessee Young Writers' Workshop
Legendary readers Martha and Roger Bishop
Matthew Desmond, author of EVICTED
Lauren Oliver, author of REPLICA
Linda Parsons, author of THIS SHAKY EARTH
Lola White, author of THE SEED AT CENTER
Maggie Stiefvater, author of THE RAVEN KING
Katie McDougall and Susannah Felts, co-founders of The Porch Writers' Collective
Katy Simpson Smith, author of FREE MEN
Kimberly Williams-Paisley, author of WHERE THE LIGHT GETS IN
Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay, author of THIS IS OUR WAR
J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly ELEGY
James Lee McDonough, author of WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN
Poet-selfie with Jeff Hardin, Kate Daniels, and Bobby C. Rogers
J.T. Ellison, author of FIELD OF GRAVES
Gayle Forman, author of LEAVE ME
Ed Tarkington, author of ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART; Jeff Hardin, author of SMALL REVOLUTION
Darnell Arnoult, author of GALAXIE WAGON
Chris Offutt, author of MY FATHER, THE PORNOGRAPHER
Christopher Hebert, ANGELS OF DETROIT
Poets Ciona Rouse, Kai Carlson-Wee, and Anders Carlson-Wee
Curtis Sittenfeld, author of ELIGIBLE
Brad Watson, author of MISS JANE; Donald Ray Pollock, author of THE HEAVENLY TABLE; Jennifer Puryear, founder of Bacon on the Bookshelf
Bronwen Dickey, author of PIT BULL
Brooks Benjamin, author of MY SEVENTH GRADE LIFE IN TIGHTS
Carmen Toussaint and Kate Parish of Rivendell Writers' Colony
Beth Macy, author of TRUEVINE
Annette Gordon-Reed, author of MOST BLESSED OF THE PATRIARCHS
Novelist Angela Flournoy and readers
Angela Flournoy, author of THE TURNER HOUSE
Adam Haslett, author of IMAGINE ME GONE
Amy Wright, author of EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE
Andrew Maraniss, author of STRONG INSIDE; Ansley Erickson, author of MAKING THE UNEQUAL METROPOLIS
