BEA’s 2012 Special Event Author Roster

Over the past month, BookExpo America has been announcing the authors scheduled to appear at this year’s breakfast events. The complete lineup is listed below. Tickets are required for all breakfast events; information about pricing is available here.

In addition, this week it was announced that musician and upcoming author Neil Young will speak at a free lunchtime event on June 6. No tickets are required, and BEA badgeholders are invited to bring their lunch.

TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 2012

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Adult Book & Author Breakfast (Special Events Hall)

• Stephen Colbert, AMERICA AGAIN: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t (Grand Central Publishing)
• Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead/Penguin Group, USA)
• Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior (HarperCollins)
• Jo Nesbo, Phantom (Knopf)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Children’s Book & Author Breakfast (Special Events Hall)

• Chris Colfer, The Land of Stories (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
• John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton/Penguin Young Readers Group)
• Lois Lowry, Son (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Kadir Nelson, I Have a Dream (Random House Children’s Books)

Noon:  A Free Lunchtime Event (Special Events Hall)
Bring your own lunch.

• A Conversation With Neil Young (Waging Heavy Peace, Blue Rider Press)

THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2012

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Adult Book & Author Breakfast (Special Events Hall)

• Kirstie Alley, Untitled ( Atria Books) 
• Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue: A Novel (HarperCollins)
• Zadie Smith, NW: A Novel (The Penguin Press/Penguin Group, USA)
• J.R. Moehringer, Sutton (Hyperion)