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2008 Festival Authors

List of confirmed authors as of September 7
Author Title
Jay Allison This I Believe II
Bob Bass When Steamboats Reigned in Florida
Shawn Bean The First Hollywood: Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking
Rick Bragg The Prince of Frogtown
Robert Olen Butler Intercourse
John Capouya Gorgeous George
Daina Chaviano The Island of Eternal Love
Roy Peter Clark Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
Dudley Clendinen A Place Called Canterbury
Cody Fowler Davis Implied Consent
Martin Dyckman A Most Disorderly Court
T. J. English Havana Nocturne
Richard Paul Evans Grace
Martha Foose Screen Doors and Sweet Tea
Stephen Frey Forced Out
Harvey Frommer Remembering Yankee Stadium
Bonnie Glover Going Down South
Peter Golenbock In the Country of Brooklyn
Mitchell Graham Majestic Descending
Margo Hammond & Ellen Heltzel Between the Covers: The Book Babes' Guide to a Woman's Reading Pleasures
Marcella Hazan Amarcord: Marcella Remembers
Janet Keeler O Christmas Treats! Favorite Cookies From St. Petersburg Times Readers
N. M. Kelby Murder at the Bad Girl's Bar and Grill
Alexandra Kerry Notes From the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out
Kristy Kiernan Matters of Faith
Jeff Klinkenberg Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators
Frank Laumer Nobody's Hero
Dennis Lehane The Given Day
David Liss The Whiskey Rebels
Sandra Tsing Loh Mother on Fire
Charles Martin Where The River Ends
Brad Matsen Titanic's Last Secrets The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler
William McKeen Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson
Dick Meyer Why We Hate Us
Deanna Michael Jimmy Carter as Education Policymaker
Tom Miller Trading With the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba
Gary Mormino Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams
Marsha Dean Phelts The American Beach Cookbook
Kevin Phillips Bad Money! Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and The Global crisis of American Capitalism
James Reese The Dracula Dossier
Elizabeth Robards With Violets
Matt Rothschild Dumbfounded: A Memoir
Elizabeth Samet Soldier's Heart

Dave Scheiber

 

Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob
Jeff Shaara The Steel Wave
Lisa Unger Black Out
Ian Vasquez In the Heat
Robert Vaughn A Fortunate Life
Helen Pruitt Wallace Shimming the Glass House

A Fortunate Life
Children’s Book Authors

Author Title
Debra Frasier A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake
Susan Orlean Little Lazy Loafers
Ridley Pearson The Kingdom Keepers Disney at Dawn (SSYRA 6-8)
Michael Sampson Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Waking Up?
Tammar Stein High Dive (YA)


Times Critics

Colette Bancroft Book Editor
Lennie Bennett Art Critic
Sean Daly Pop Music Critic
Eric Deggans TV/Media Critic
John Fleming Performing Arts Critic
Steve Persall Film Critic

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