

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
Thank You!

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