Authors in the Round 2023 ~ Invitation

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IN THE ROUND Authors

FOUNDING CHAIR

Todd Bottorff

HONORARY CHAIR

Jean Bottorff

AUTHORS

Paula Blackman Night Train to Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story of Music City

Kat Calvin American Identity in Crisis: Notes from an Accidental Activist

Anderson Carlson-Wee Disease of Kings: Poems

KJ Dell’Antonia Playing the Witch Card: A Novel

Timothy Egan

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Tan Twan Eng The House of Doors: A Novel

Drew Gilpin Faust Necessary Trouble: Growing up at Midcentury

Ben Fountain Devil Makes Three: A Novel

Rea Frey The Other Year: A Novel

Holly Gleason Prine on Prine: Interviews and Encounters with John Prine

Frye Gaillard A Word on Words; The Best of John Seigenthaler’s Interviews

Mark Greaney Burner: A Gray Man Novel

Cheryl Head Time’s Undoing: A Novel

Patti Callahan Henry The Secret Book of Flora Lea: A Novel

Carl Hiassen Wrecker

Kem Hinton Tennessee’s Bicentennial Mall

Mark Jarman Zeno’s Eternity: Poems

Sadeqa Johnson The House of Eve: A Novel

Tracy Kidder

Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People

Hilary Leichter Terrace Story: A Novel

David Levithan Every Day: The Graphic Novel

Lindsay Lynch Do Tell: A Novel

Jamila Minnicks Moonrise Over New Jessup: A Novel

Megan Miranda

Lorrie Moore

The Only Survivors: A Novel

I am Homeless if This is Not My Home: A Novel

Robert Mugge Notes from the Road: A Filmmaker’s Journey Through American Music

Tom Piazza The Auburn Conference: A Novel

Ben Purkert The Men Can’t Be Saved: A Novel

Matthew Quick We Are the Light: A Novel

Kathleen Rooney From Dust to Stardust: A Novel

John Scalzi Starter Villain

Cat Shook If We’re Being Honest: A Novel

George Singleton The Curious Live of Nonprofit Martyrs

Etaf Rum Evil Eye: A Novel

Lauren Thoman I’ll Stop the World: A Novel

And more...

Wine & Dine

WITH THE AUTHORS OF THE 35TH ANNUAL

SOUTHERN FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

October 20,2023

COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME ® AND MUSEUM

COCKTAILS & HORS D’OEUVRES

AT SIX IN THE EVENING

DINNER

AT SEVEN IN THE EVENING

Event Chairs

LAURA SMITH AND LOLITA TONEY

COCKTAIL ATTIRE

COMPLIMENTARY VALET ON REP. JOHN LEWIS WAY S.

Thank You!

2023 AUTHORS IN THE ROUND SPONSORS

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Invitation cover art provided by Ron York

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