WHO: Carmel residents Jim and Cindy McGillen, Founders
WHAT:
The Third Annual Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival; featuring twnety-nine award winning authors
AUTHORS (listed alphabetically, links to websites):
TRIP ADLER, CEO and co-founder of
Scribd, “
the largest social publishing company in the world, the website where tens of millions of people each month publish and discover original writings and documents."
REZA ASLAN, Assistant Professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside and senior fellow at the Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara and
contributor to the Daily Beast.
CARA BLACK, author of mystery novels set in Paris featuring detective Aimée Leduc.
LOUANN BRIZENDINE, M.D., Founder and Director of the Women's Mood and Hormone Clinic, specializes in the relationship dynamics that result from the neurobiology of male and female brains.
STUART L. BROWN, M.D., Founder of The National Institute for Play, a 501c(3) non-profit public benefit corporation committed "
to bringing the unrealized knowledge, practices and benefits of play into public life." FRANCES DINKELSPIEL, a fifth-generation Californian who grew up in San Francisco, author of
Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, published by St. Martins Press in November 2008.
RODES FISHBURNE, "
a lifelong angler, he worked for five seasons as a fly-fishing guide in Alaska," author of the best-selling novel
Going to See the Elephant.
DON GEORGE, a pioneering and award-winning travel journalist; the
Adventure Collection’s Web Editor in Chief and the creator and host of Don’s Place, a multi-faceted web site that focuses on the world of adventure travel.
ELIZABETH GILBERT, Author of
Pilgrims, a collection of short stories;
Stern Men, novel about lobster fishing territory wars off the coast of Maine;
The Last American Man, biography of Eustace Conway, an eclectic modern day woodsman and
Eat, Pray, Love, about the year she spent traveling the world alone after a difficult divorce.
CARL HIAASEN, "
America's finest satirical novelist...the blazing conscience of the Sunshine State."
NEAL HOTELLING, an "
authority on the history of world-famous Pebble Beach."TOM JOHNSON,
Director of the Program for Culture & Conflict Studies. Naval Postgraduate School; the program coordinates anthropological research activities on the human terrain of Central and South Asia, he teaches courses on Afghanistan, Central Asian crises, politics, terrorism, and security.
DAVID KENNEDY, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University; Research includes integration of economic and cultural analysis with social and political history.
MICHAEL KRASNY KQED Radio's Michael Krasny is one of the country's leading interviewers of literary luminaries, author of
Off Mike A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life.
RICHARD LEDERER, "
a fly-by-the-roof-of-the-mouth user- friendly English teacher, Wizard of Idiom, Attila the Pun, and Conan the Grammarian," author of
A Treasury for Dog Lovers and
A Treasury for Cat Lovers.
FREDERIC LUSKIN, Ph.D.,
Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects, an ongoing series of workshops and research projects that investigate the effectiveness of his forgiveness methods on a variety of populations.
SHANA MAHAFFEY, author of
Sounds Like Crazy, a "
darkly comic and ultimately healing story about Holly Miller, an Emmy Award winning cartoon voiceover performer who has actual voices in her head, multiple personalities who make her career a huge success, and shield her from a terrible secret in her past."
BILL MILLIKEN, "
a tireless advocate for disenfranchised youth and one of the foremost pioneers in the movement to connect schools with community resources to help troubled students graduate and succeed in life," author of
The Last Dropout: Stop the Epidemic!
GREG MORTENSON Co-founder (with Dr. Jean Hoerni) and Executive Director of nonprofit Central Asia Institute, promotes community-based education and literacy programs, especially for girls, in remote mountain regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Founder of Pennies For Peace and co-author of the #1 New York Times best-seller,
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School At A Time.
P. J. O’ROURKE, "
America’s premier political satirist." Best-selling author of 12 books, including
Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance, Eat the Rich, The CEO of the Sofa, Holidays in Hell, Peace Kills and On the Wealth of Nations. Of his 2009 release, Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be -- With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn.
FRANK PORTMAN,
author of the best-selling young adult novel King Dork.
CARLOS PRIETO, "...a true champion of the cello. A creative artist, scholar and storyteller, Carlos has been a prolific contributor to the flow of music throughout the western hemisphere, premiering compositions of some of the greatest contemporary composers and helping to nurture and develop an entire generation of Latin America's most talented musicians." Prieto has written six books: "
Russian Letters", "Around the World with the Cello", "From the USSR to Russia", "The Adventures of a Cello" – translated into English, Russian and Portuguese, "
Paths and Images of Music" and "
5000 Years of Words."
DAVID ROCHE, Motivational keynote speaker and humorist, Roche has "
transformed the challenges and gifts of living with a facial disfigurement into a compelling message that uplifts and delights audiences around the world.”
KEMBLE SCOTT, bestselling author of the novels The Sower and SoMa and editor the weekly literary newsletter
THE LIT GUIDE.
SHELBY STEELE Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Steele specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action.
Steele received the National Book Critic's Circle Award in 1990 in the general nonfiction category for his book
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America. Other books by Steele include
A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win (Free Press, 2007),
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (HarperCollins 2006) and
A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America.LOUISE STEINMAN, a writer and literary curator. “
Her work frequently deals with memory, history and reconciliation;” books include The
Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War, chronicles "
her quest to return a war 'souvenir' to its owner and-- in the process-- illuminates how war changed one generation and shaped another and The Knowing Body: The Artist As Storyteller in Contemporary Performance, based on two decades of Louise’s experience as a performer/director with So&So&So&So interdisciplinary theater troupe, and as a dance/theater critic..."
DAVID L. ULIN, a writer based in Los Angeles, “
Ulin presents both a personal and a cultural account of earthquakes and attempts to predict them ranging from the superstitious to the scientific. Among his topics are three April earthquakes, the history of seismology, and before and after science;” books include
Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and
Faith and Another City: Writing from Los Angeles.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE, Board-certified in internal medicine and in pulmonary and infectious diseases, Verghese is known for his acclaimed non-fiction work, including
My Own Country, which was based on his experiences as a physician treating persons with HIV in Johnson City, Tennessee,
The Tennis Partner and
Cutting for Stone.
RICK WARTZMAN,
director of Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker Institute, "
established in May 2006 with the mission of taking Peter Drucker’s ideas and ideals to new audiences by new means."
WHEN: Friday, September 25 – Sunday, 27, 2009
WHERE:
Sunset Center Theater
E/s San Carlos St @ 9th Av.
Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA.TICKETS: EVENT TICKET $550.00 each (includes facility handling charge); Includes one seat for all Festival general sessions.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:Please call 831-626-6243 or email info@carmelauthors.com
