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Spring 2013 Authors! Authors! Series

Authors! Authors! events will take place at the McMaster Center, Main Library and Stranahan Theater, 4645 Heatherdowns Boulevard and begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 per person. Tickets are available for purchase at all Toledo-Lucas County Public Library locations and are limited in quantity. Student discounts are available. For more information, please call 419.259.5266. Sign up to receive e-mail alerts on the upcoming series>>

Mark your calendars for the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library 2013 Spring Authors! Authors! series presented by The Blade. The spring lineup features:

 

 

Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 7 p.m.
Jamaica Kincaid

McMaster Center, Main Library, 325 Michigan St.

Writer, novelist, and professor Jamaica Kincaid skillfully and elegantly tempers the boundary between poetry and prose.  Using life to inspire fiction, Kincaid often explores the complexity of relationships in her writing.  Through her books and novels, including Annie John, Lucy, At the Bottom of the River and A Small Place, she has carved out a unique and cherished place in the American literary landscape. more>>

 

Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 7 p.m.
Richard Norton Smith

McMaster Center, Main Library, 325 Michigan St.

Presidential Historian and former head of six presidential libraries, Richard Norton Smith is a nationally recognized expert on the American presidency and appears regularly on C-Span and “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”  He has published numerous books, including “Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, The Bill of Rights, and the Election That Saved a Nation” (2011), “The Modern American Presidency” (2nd Edition 2009), and  “An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover” (1984).  Mr. Smith is currently a scholar and teacher at George Mason University in suburban Washington, D.C.



 

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 7 p.m.  (No book signing.)
Anna Quindlen

Stranahan Theater, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd.

Bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and social critic Anna Quindlen’s library of work provides perspectives on daily life, delicately balancing the political with the personal.  Twelve of Quindlen’s books, including six of her novels, have appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers list.  Some of her more recent novels include Every Last One (2010), Rise and Shine (2006) and Blessings (2002).

At each program, authors will speak for about an hour, followed by a short question and answer session. Following the program, they will be available to sign copies of their books. Books will be available for purchase at the program from Barnes & Noble Booksellers.

An anticipated treat for the community, Authors! Authors! has welcomed some of the biggest names - straight off the bestsellers lists - for an evening of discussion, Q&A and book signings. Some of the names from the Authors! Authors! past include Dr. Robert Ballard, Mary Higgins Clark, David Halberstam, Bill Keane, Robert Kennedy Jr., Terry McMillan, David McCullough, John Updike and Jonathan Kozol.
 

Check out past Authors

   

Anna Quindlen
May 2013

 

Richard Norton Smith
April 2013
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Jamaica Kincaid
March 2013
 
 



John Grogan
November 2013
 


Hill Harper
October 2013
 


Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
May 2012


Judy Collins
April 2012
 


Edmund Morris
March 2012
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Lisa See
November 2011
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Steve Pollick
November 2011
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Rudy Maxa
September 2011
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Sebastian Junger
May 2011
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Byron Pitts
April 2011
 



Dick Cavett
March 2011
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Geraldine Brooks
November 2010

 


Alexander McCall Smith
October 2010
 


Jack Hanna
September 2010

 


Lisa Scottoline
May 2010
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Carl Weber
April 2010
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Mike Farrell
March 2010
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Christopher Buckley
November 2009
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Neil Gaiman
October 2009
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Clarence Page
May 2009
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Isabel Allende
April 2009
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Douglas Brinkley
March 2009
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Rick Steves
November 2008
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Donna Brazile
September 2008
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Meg Cabot
June 2008
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Kathy Reichs
May 2008
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Marian Wright Edelman
April 2008
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David Yonke
February 2008
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Jim Trelease
November 2007

 


Joe Klein
October 2007

 


Susan Taylor
September 2007
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Daisy Martinez
May 2007
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Matthew Bogdanos
April 2007

 


Jodi Picoult
March 2007
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David Gergen
November 2006

 


Mercedes Lackey
October 2006
 


Walter Mosley
September
2006


Mike Sallah
May 2006
 



Mitch Weiss
May 2006
 



Khaled
Hosseini

April 2006



Jeff Smith
March 2006


Jon Meacham
November 2005


Sue Monk Kidd
October 2005



Karen Harper
September 2005



Debbie Travis
May 2005



Thomas Cahill
April 2005
 


Edward P.
Jones

March 2005


Nicholas Sparks
November 2004
 


Mick Foley
October 2004
 



Faye
Kellerman

September
2004

 

Jonathan Kellerman
September 2004



Jane Smiley
May 2004
 


Eric Jerome Dickey
April 2004
 


Scott Turow
March 2004
 


Jane Brody
November 2003
 


John C. Moore
October 2003

 


Po Bronson
September
2003
 


Arthur Frommer
May 2003

 


Rachel Naomi
Remen

April 2003
 


Sara Paretsky
March 2003

 


Kerry Kennedy Cuomo
November 2002
 


Bob Woodward
October 2002

 


Sue Grafton
September
2002
 


Bebe Moore Campbell
May 2002
 


Jonathan Kozol
April 2002

 


Michael Medved
March 2002

 


John Updike
November 2001

 


Susan
Stamberg

October 2001
 


Clifton Taulbert
October 2001

 


Carol Higgins Clark
May 2001
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Frank Brady
April 2001
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Mark Shields
March 2001
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David McCullough
November 2000
 



Chris Woodyard
October 2000
 


Terry McMillan
September 2000
 


Lynn Johnston
May 2000

 


Cassandra Danz
April 2000

 


Helen Thomas
March 2000

 


Dr. Bertice
Berry

November 1999
 


Harold Evans
October 1999

 


P.J. O’Rourke
September 1999

 


Jerry Mathers
May 1999

 


Carole Nelson Douglas
April 1999
 


Joyce Carol Oates
March 1999
 


Robert Ballard
November 1998

 


Robert Massie
October 1998

 


Peter Bogdanovich
September 1998
 


Marcy Kaptur
May 1998

 


Chaim Potok
April 1998

 


Roger Caras
March 1998

 


Mary Schiavo
November 1997

 


Judith Viorst
October 1997

 


Barbara Taylor Bradford
September 1997
 


John Berendt
May 1997

 


Jack Torry
April 1997

 


Nikki Giovanni
March 1997
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Ray Bradbury
November 1996


 


Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels
October 1996
 


Bil Keane
September 1996


 


Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
May 1996

 


Christine Brennan
April 1996
 


Michael Beschloss
March 1996

 


Jim Rogers
November 1995

 


Henry Haller
October 1995

 


David
Halberstam

September 1995
 


Mary Alice Powell
May 1995

 


Julie & David Eisenhower
April 1995
 


James Lovell
March 1995

 


Steve Pollick
February 1995

 


Juan Williams
October 1994

 


Bob Arnot
September 1994
 


Bob Greene
May 1994
 


James Humes
April 1994
 


Mary Higgins Clark
March 1994


Doris Kearns Goodwin
February 1994