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Winter Institute to Feature More Than 100 Authors [2]
- By Sydney Jarrard [3]
More than 100 authors and illustrators [4] will appear at the 2017 Winter Institute [5] over the course of three days of plenary sessions, featured talks, author receptions, and special events.
Authors appearing at Winter Institute 12, from January 27–30 in Minneapolis, include:
- Hala Alyan, Salt Houses (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Jodi Lynn Anderson, Midnight at the Electric (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
- M.T. Anderson, Yvain: The Knight of the Lion (Candlewick)
- Natalie Anderson, City of Saints and Thieves (Putnam Young Readers)
- Marina Benjamin, Middlepause: On Life After Youth (Catapult)
- Scott Bergstrom, The Cruelty (Feiwel & Friends)
- Richard Blais, So Good (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Misha Maynerick Blaise, This Phenomenal Life (Lyon Press)
- Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do (Abrams), A Different Pond (Capstone)
- Susan Burton, Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women (The New Press)
- Nickolas Butler, The Hearts of Men (Ecco)
- Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next (Delacorte Press)
- Kayla Cagan, Piper Perish (Chronicle Books)
- Cora Carmack, Roar (Tor Teen)
- Leah Carroll, Down City (Grand Central Publishing)
- Louis V. Clark III (Two Shoes), How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century (Wisconsin Historical Society Press)
- Rachel Cohn, Kill All Happies (Disney-Hyperion)
- Vicki Covington, Once in a Blue Moon (John F. Blair, Publisher)
- Charmaine Craig, Miss Burma (Grove/Atlantic)
- Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale (Candlewick)
- Rebecca Donnelly, How to Stage a Catastrophe (Capstone)
- Emma Donoghue, The Lotterys Plus One (Scholastic)
- Omar El Akkad, American War (Knopf)
- Chris Finan, Drunks: An American History (Beacon Press)
- Laurie Forest, The Black Witch (Harlequin Teen)
- Jenny Forrester, Narrow River, Wide Sky: A Memoir (Hawthorne Books)
- Brian Freeman, Marathon (Quercus)
- Emily Fridlund, History of Wolves (Grove/Atlantic)
- Donna Frietas, The Happiness Effect: How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost (Oxford University Press)
- Tony Fucile, Poor Louie (Candlewick)
- Roxane Gay, Difficult Women (Grove Press)
- Grant Ginder, The People We Hate at the Wedding (Flatiron Books)
- Claudia Gray, Defy the Stars (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Lauren Grodstein, Our Short History (Algonquin)
- Ian Hamilton, The Princeling of Nanjing (House of Anansi Press)
- Heather Harpham, Happiness (Henry Holt)
- Annie Hartnett, Rabbit Cake (Tin House Books)
- Chris Hayes, A Colony in a Nation (W.W. Norton)
- Alice Hoffman, Faithful (Simon & Schuster)
- Ladee Hubbard, The Talented Tenth (Melville House)
- Joshilyn Jackson, Almost Sisters (William Morrow)
- Pam Jenoff, The Orphan’s Tale (MIRA)
- Mark Kingwell, Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters (Biblioasis)
- Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World (William Morrow)
- Lisa Ko, The Leavers (Algonquin)
- Lesley Kreuger, Mad Richard (ECW)
- Mary Kubica, Every Last Lie (Park Row Books)
- Lorna Landvik, Once in a Blue Moon Lodge (University of Minnesota Press)
- Fonda Lee, Exo (Scholastic)
- Julie Lekstrom Himes, Mikhail and Margarita (Europa Editions)
- J. Robert Lennon, Broken River (Graywolf Press)
- Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King (Feiwel & Friends)
- Alan Lightman, Song of Two Worlds (Red Hen Press)
- Brian Ludwig, The Original Ginny Moon (Park Row Books)
- Nicole Lundrigan, The Substitute (House of Anansi Press)
- Heidi Mastrogiovanni, Lala Pettibone’s Act Two (Amberjack Publishing, dist. by Midpoint Trade Books)
- Laura McBride, ’Round Midnight (Touchstone)
- Andrew McCarthy, Just Fly Away (Algonquin Young Readers)
- Jim McDermott, Bitter Is the Wind (Vireo/Rare Bird Books)
- Matthew McIntosh, theMystery.doc (Grove/Atlantic)
- Fred Minnick, Bourbon: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth (Quarto)
- Kate Moore, The Radium Girls (Sourcebooks)
- Marissa Moss, Last Things: A Graphic Memoir about ALS (Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari)
- Brandon Mull, Dragonwatch: A Fablehaven Adventure (Shadow Mountain)
- Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road (W.W. Norton)
- Sara Flannery Murphy, The Possessions (Harper)
- Robin Newman, A Wilcox & Griswold Mystery: The Case of the Poached Egg (Creston Books)
- Ann Patchett, Commonwealth (Harper)
- Phaedra Patrick, Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone (Park Row Books)
- Benjamin Percy, The Dark Net (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Bao Phi, A Different Pond (Capstone)
- Ashley Poston, Geekerella (Quirk Books)
- Mark Powell, Echolocation (Tyrus Books)
- J.L. Powers, The Broken Circle (Akashic Books)
- M.A. Powers, The Broken Circle (Akashic Books)
- Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks (Bloomsbury)
- Brontez Purnell, Since I Laid My Burden Down (The Feminist Press)
- Liz Reinhardt, Rebels Like Us (Harlequin Teen)
- Greg Ruth, Old Turtle: Questions of the Heart (Scholastic)
- Benjamin Alire Saenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life (Clarion Books)
- Laura Purdie Salas, If You Were the Moon (Millbrook Press/Lerner)
- Gerda Saunders, Memory’s Last Breath (Hachette Books)
- Melissa Savage, Lemons (Crown Books for Young Readers)
- Kim Malone Scott, Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity (St. Martin’s Press)
- Jessica Shattuck, Women in the Castle (Ecco)
- Lesley Stahl, Becoming Grandma: The Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting (Blue Rider Press)
- Ali Standish, The Ethan I Was Before (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
- Elizabeth Strout, Anything Is Possible (Random House)
- Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, The Nest (Ecco)
- Gabriel Tallent, My Absolute Darling (Riverhead Books)
- Natasha Tarpley, The Harlem Charade (Scholastic)
- Stan Tekiela, Backyard Birds: Welcomed Guests at Our Gardens and Feeders (AdventureKEEN)
- Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
- Laura Trunkey, Double Dutch (House of Anansi Press)
- Deb Olin Unferth, Wait Till You See Me Dance (Graywolf Press)
- Deepak Unnikrishnan, Temporary People (Restless Books)
- Peternelle van Arsdale, The Beast Is an Animal (Simon & Schuster Children’s Books)
- Brian Van Reet, Spoils (Lee Boudreaux Books, Little, Brown)
- Daniel Wallace, Extraordinary Adventures (St. Martin’s Press)
- Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don’t Rise (Sourcebooks)
- Julie Wernersbach, Swimming Holes of Texas (University of Texas Press)
- Douglas Wood, Old Turtle: Questions of the Heart (Scholastic)
Learn more about the authors appearing at Winter Institute [4] and check out the full lineup of educational programs, keynote speeches, and meet-and-greet events [6] on BookWeb.
Winter Institute 12 [5] is made possible by the generous support of lead sponsor Ingram Content Group and from publishers large and small [7].