Texas Pages

2008 Texas Book Festival Writers:

Bridget Albert (Market-Fresh Mixology: Cocktails for Every Season)

Scott Grant Barker (Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists of the 1940s)

Michael Barson (True West: An Illustrated Guide to the Heyday of the Western)

Sarah Bird (How Perfect Is That)

Bill Bishop (The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us
Apart)

Roy Blount Jr. (Alphabet Soup: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, ... With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory)

Philip Bobbitt (Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century)

Robert Boswell (The Half-Known World; What Men Call Treasure)

Charles Bowden (Exodus/Éxodo)

Rick Bragg (The Prince of Frogtown)

H.W. Brands (Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

Marilynn Brass (Heirloom Cooking With the Brass Sisters: Recipes You Remember and
Love)

Sheila Brass (Heirloom Cooking With the Brass Sisters: Recipes You Remember and
Love)

Marie Brenner (Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found)

Dolph Briscoe (Dolph Briscoe: My Life in Texas Ranching and Politics)

Peter Brown (West of Last Chance)

Ron Brownstein (The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed
Washington and Polarized America)

Robert Bryce (Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence)

Christopher Buckley (Supreme Courtship)

Reed Bunzel (Clear Vision: The Story of Clear Channel Communications)

Jonathon Burnett (Flash Floods of Texas)

Fred Burton (Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorist Agent)

Julian Cardona (Exodus/Éxodo)

Don Carleton (Dolph Briscoe: My Life in Texas Ranching and Politics)

Robert Caro (Bookend Award)

Keith Carter (A Certain Alchemy)

Martin Clark (The Legal Limit)

Jennet Conant (The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime
Washington)

Irasema Coronado (editor, Políticas: Latina Public Officials in Texas)

Tom Corwin (Mr. Fooster Traveling on a Whim)

James U. Cross (Around the World with LBJ: My Wild Ride as Air Force One Pilot)

Ann Cummins (Yellowcake: A Novel)

Robert Cushing (The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing
Us Apart)

John DeMers (Follow the Smoke: 14,783 Miles of Great Texas Barbecue)

Amber Dermont (contributor, The Worst Years of My Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out,
Angst- Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood Adolescent in
All of Us)

Michael Dirda (Classics for Pleasure)

Nicholas H. Dodman (If Only They Could Speak to Us: Stories about Pets and Their
People)

James Donovan (A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle
of the American West)

Doug Dorst (Alive in Necropolis)

Ross Douthat (Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and
Save the American Dream)

Andre Dubus III (The Garden of Last Days: A Novel)

Richard Earl (Texas Water Atlas)

David Ebershoff (The 19th Wife: A Novel)

Marc Eliot (Reagan: The Hollywood Years)

Lawrence Estaville (Texas Water Atlas)

Mike Farrell (Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist)

Alec Foege (Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial
Radio)

Martha Hall Foose (Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook)

Gene Fowler (Mavericks: A Gallery of Texas Characters)

Josh Frank (In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost
History of New Wave Theater)

Alexandra Fuller (The Legend of Colton H. Bryant)

Betty Fussell (Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef)

James K. Galbraith (Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and
Why Liberals Should Too)

Denise Gamino (Around the World with LBJ: My Wild Ride as Air Force One Pilot)

Sonia R. García (editor, Políticas: Latina Public Officials in Texas)

Lisa Germany (Great Houses of Texas)

Ted Gioia (Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who
Revolutionized American Music)

Scott Gold (The Shameless Carnivore: A Manifesto for Meat Lovers)

Philip Gourevitch (Paris Review Interviews III)

Alan Govenar (Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound)

Andrew Sean Greer (The Story of a Marriage: A Novel)

Stephanie Elizondo Griest (Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlines)

Jeff Gusky (Bordertown: The Odyssey of an American Place)

Katie Hafner (A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect
Piano)

David Hajdu (The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed
America)

James L. Haley (One Ranger Returns)

Evan Handler (It's Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive)

Mark Harris (Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood)

Gary Hartman (The History of Texas Music)

Jim Henderson (Bob Bullock: God Bless Texas)

Amanda Hesser (Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from
The New York Times)

Jim Hightower (Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow)

Zara Houshmand (A Mirror Garden)

C.E. Hunt (Big Thicket People: Larry Jene Fisher's Photographs of the Last Southern
Frontier)

H. Joaquin Jackson (One Ranger Returns)

Bill Jamison (Around the World in 80 Dinners: The Ultimate Culinary Adventure)

Cheryl Jamison (Around the World in 80 Dinners: The Ultimate Culinary Adventure)

Patricia A. Jaramillo (editor, Políticas: Latina Public Officials in Texas)

Randa Jarrar (A Map of Home)

Dana Jennings (Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music)

Benjamin Heber Johnson (Bordertown: The Odyssey of an American Place)

Jon Katz (Izzy and Lenore: Two Dogs, an Unexpected Journey, and Me)

Kathleen Kent (The Heretics Daughter: A Novel)

Stephanie Klein (Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp)

Corby Kummer (The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors,
and Recipes)

Joe Lansdale (Leather Maiden)

Michael Largo (Genius & Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession,
and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages)

Robert Leleux (The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy)
Matt Lewis (Baked: New Frontiers in Baking)
David Liss (The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel)
Sandra Tsing Loh (Mother on Fire: A True Motherf%#$@ Story About Parenting!)

O. Rufus Lovett (Kilgore Rangerettes)

Jonathan Mahler (The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential
Power)

Hooman Majd (The Ayatolla Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran)

Lisa Margonelli (Oil On the Brain: Petroleum's Long Strange Trip to Your Tank)

Jeff Martin (The Customer Is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles)

Valerie Martinez-Ebers (editor, Políticas: Latina Public Officials in Texas)

Jane Mayer (The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned
into a War on American Ideals)
Thomas O. McGarity (Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health
Research)

Dave McNeely (Bob Bullock: God Bless Texas)

James E. McWilliams (American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT)

Bryan Mealer (All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo)

Tom Miller (Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba; How I
Learned English: 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life/Como aprendí ingles: 55 latinos realizados relatan sus lecciones de idioma y vida)

Bill Milliken (The Last Dropout: Stop the Epidemic!)

Robyn Moreno (Practically Posh: The Smart Girl's Guide to a Glam Life)

Bob Moser (Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority)

Sharon A. Navarro (editor, Políticas: Latina Public Officials in Texas)

Travis Nichols (Punk Rock Etiquette: The Ultimate How-to-Guide for DIY, Punk, Indie,
and Underground Bands)

Ann Packer (Songs Without Words)

Joe Nick Patoski (Willie Nelson: An Epic Life)

Kathy Patrick (The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life)

Amanda Petrusich (It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the
Next American Music)

Tom Piazza (City of Refuge: A Novel)

T. Boone Pickens (The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks
and America's Energy Future)

Mark Jude Poirier (The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-
Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood Adolescent in All of
Us)

Renato Poliafito (Baked: New Frontiers in Baking)

Peter Post (Playing Through: A Guide to the Unwritten Rules of Golf)

Richard Price (Lush Life: A Novel)

Francine Prose (Goldengrove: A Novel)

Jeannie Ralston (The Unlikely Lavender Queen: A Memoir of Unexpected Blossoming)

Christopher Reich (Rules of Deception)

Mike Renfro (Shine On: 100 Years of Shiner Beer)

Geoff Rips (The Truth)

Sara Roahen (Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table)

George Rodrigue (Blue Dog Speaks)

Peter Sagal (The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them))

Reihan Salam (Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and
Save the American Dream)

Andrew Sansom (Water in Texas: An Introduction)

Mark Sarvas (Harry, Revised: A Novel)

Jeremy Scahill (Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army)

Shannon McKenna Schmidt (Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks From Jane
Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West)

Alice Schroeder (The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life)

David Schweidel (What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak)

Michael F. Scully (The Never-Ending Revival: Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance)

Edwin "Bud" Shrake (Land of the Permanent Wave: An Edwin "Bud" Shrake Reader)

Bapsi Sidhwa (The Pakistani Bride: A Novel)

Scott Simon (Windy City: A Novel of Politics)

Gene Smith (Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps)

John Stauffer (Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln)

James Swanson (Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer)

Carmen Tafolla (The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans)

Bill Tancer (Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters)

Christina Thompson (Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand
Story)

Terry Thompson-Anderson (The Texas Hill Country: A Food and Wine Lover's
Paradise)

James Traub (The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just not the
Way George W. Bush Did))

Peg Tyre (The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their
Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do)

Tom Vanderbilt (Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What it Says About Us))

Mary L. Volcansek (Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps)

Daniel Wallace (Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician: A Novel)

Hollace Ava Weiner (Jewish "Junior League": The Rise and Demise of the Fort Worth
Council of Jewish Women)

Ted Widmer (Ark of the Liberties: America and the World)

Debbie Wiener (Slob Proof! Real-Life Home Decorating Solutions)

Marion Winik (The Glen Rock Book of the Dead)

Children's Authors:

Jon Agee (The Retired Kid)

Linas Alsenas (Gay America: Struggle for Equality; Peanut)

Kathi Appelt (The Underneath)

T. A. Barron (Merlin's Dragon)

Phil Bildner (Turkey Bowl)

Laurent de Brunhoff (Babar's USA)

Shana Burg (A Thousand Never Evers)

Patrick Carman (Stargazer (Land of Elyon))

Melissa de la Cruz (Revelations: A Blue Bloods Novel)

John R. Erickson (Hank the Cowdog #52: The Quest for the Great White Quail)

Heather Vogel Frederick (The Mother-Daughter Book Club)

Xavier Garza (Charro Claus and the Tejas Kid)

Robin Preiss Glasser (Tea for Ruby)

Shannon Hale (Rapunzel's Revenge)

Michael Harmon (The Last Exit to Normal)

Elizabeth Singer Hunt (Secret Agent Jack Stalwart: The Puzzle of the Missing Panda)

Christopher S. Jennings (Animal Band)

Varian Johnson (My Life as a Rhombus)

Laurie Keller (The Scrambled States of America Talent Show)

Bill Konigsberg (Out of the Pocket)

Claudia Guadalupe Martinez (The Smell of Old Lady Perfume)

Marisa Montes (Los Gatos Black on Halloween)

Yuyi Morales (Los Gatos Black on Halloween)

Shelia P. Moses (Joseph)

Lauren Myracle (Bliss)

Jennifer Nails (Next to Mexico)

Kadir Nelson (Abe's Honest Words; We are the Ship)

Susan Orlean (Lazy Little Loafers)

Margo Rabb (Cures for Heartbreak)

Doreen Rappaport (Abe's Honest Words)

Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth; Maze of Bones; Rebel Island; The Titan's
Curse)

Benjamin Alire Saenz (A Perfect Season for Dreaming/Una temporada perfecta para
soñar; He Forgot to Say Goodbye)

Cindy Post Senning (Emily's Christmas Gifts)

R. L. Stine (Goosebumps HorrorLand: Dr. Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz)

Tanya Lee Stone (Sandy's Circus)

Carmen Tafolla (That's Not Fair!: Emma Tenayuca's Struggle for Justice/No Es Justo!:
La lucha de Emma Tenayuca por la justicia)

Emma J. Virjan (Nacho the Party Puppy)

Andrea White (Radiant Girl)

Martin Wilson (What They Always Tell Us)

Philip Yates (A Pirate's Night Before Christmas)

Paula Yoo (Good Enough)

Jennifer Ziegler (How Not to be Popular)