Kathy Abdul-Baki worked as a journalist and features writer for an English weekly newspaper in Bahrain before devoting her time to writing fiction. Her published works include a collection of short stories, Fields of Fig and Olive: Ameera and Other Stories of the Middle East, and two novels, Tower of Dreams and Ghost Songs (January 2000, Passegiata Press). (3/25 2 p.m.)

Elmaz Abinader is an Arab-American author, poet, performance artist and teacher. She has published Children of the Roojme: A Famiy's Journey from Lebanon, In the Country of my Dreams, and toured the U.S. and Middle East with Country of Origin, a storytelling performance. She is currently working on a novel, Women from the Occupied Territories, and a book of travel essays, Ramadan Moon. (3/25 2 p.m.)

Dr. Henry J. Abraham is James Hart Professor Emeritus of Government at the University of Virginia. He is the author of twelve books and was the first winner of the American Political Science Association of Law and Courts Section's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993. (3/25 12 p.m.)

Joel Achenbach is a journalist, currently working for the Washington Post. His column "Why Things Are" was widely read and distributed. He also wrote Captured by Aliens, a narrative about the human spirit and the failure of science to quench our thirst for meaning. 3/23 4 p.m.

Bogdan Achimescu is a visiting artist from Poland currently teaching in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia. 3/23 6 p.m.

Jennifer Ackerman's book, Notes from the Shore explores the natural life of the mid-Atlantic coast. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and other publications. She is currently working on a book about the genetic similarities between humans and other species. (3/26 3:30 p.m.)

Karl Ackerman's new novel, Dear Will, has just been published. It was selected as one of the top ten new books of the spring season by the independent booksellers of Book Sense. Ackerman's first novel, The Patron Saint of Unmarried Women, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. (3/23 8 p.m.)

In 1995 Jane Alberdeston-Coralin found a home in DC's black writer's community. Co-founder of the Modern Urban Griots, she has performed at the Gala Hispanic Theatre, Smithsonian Institute, and Whitney Museum (NY). Her poetry collection is called "the afrotaina dreams." (3/25 4 p.m._

Duncan Sings-Alone, of Cherokee-Scot descent, is a Native American storyteller, ceremonialist, spiritual teacher and Grandfather Chief of the Free Cherokees. He lives in both Massachusetts and Michigan with his novelist wife, Priscilla Cogan, and their two shelties. (3/22 9:15 a.m. & 1:10 p.m., 3/23 9 & 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3/24 2 p.m.)

Hanan al-Shaykh was born in Lebanon and studied in Beirut and Cairo. She is the author of two volumes of short stories, including I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops, six novels, including novels The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh and Beirut Blues, and two plays. Four of her works are translated into English and other languages. Her newest novel, Only in London, is forthcoming in spring 2000. (3/24 2 p.m., 3/25 4 p.m.)

Nancy Andrews, a 1986 graduate of the University of Virginia, has been a photographer for The Washington Post for eight years. In 1998, she was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year. In 1994, her first book, FAMILY: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian America was published. (3/24 10 a.m. )

Brent Ashabranner was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, in 1921. Mr. Ashabranner taught English at Oklahoma State University for several years, then worked overseas in Ethiopia, Libya, Nigeria and India. He has written over thirty-five books, including A New Frontier and Still a Nation of Immigrants. (3/23, 4 p.m.)

Jabari Asim is a senior editor of Washington Post Book World. His work also appears in such books as The Furious Flowering of African-American Poetry and the forthcoming Salon Readers Guide. The Road To Freedom, his novel for young readers, will be published next year. (3/25 10 a.m.)

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Rachel Bagby's first book, Divine Daughters, blends memoir, poetry, essays, and music. The Library of Congress and several anthologies have featured her work about nature and culture. She is working on a book and song cycle devoted to sustainable living. (3/22, 4 p.m. )

David Baldacci is the author of 5 best-selling novels including Absolute Power, and The Simple Truth. A graduate of UVa law school, his most recent book is Saving Faith. (3/24 2 & 4 p.m., 3/26 3:30 and 5 p.m.)

Gordon Ball edited three books with poet Allen Ginsberg, including Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness. He has made fourteen independent films, published numerous articles and photographs on America's Beat Generation, and teaches in the Department of English at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. (3/26 3:30 p.m.)

Edwin Barber is vice-chairman and senior editor at W.W. Norton & Co. Over the course of his 30 year career he has published such authors as Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Feynman, Martin Cruz Smith, George Plimpton, and Walter LeFeber. (3/25 12 p.m.)

Virginia Barber is founder and head of the literary agency The Writers Shop. Among the authors the agency represents are Diane Ackerman, Rosellen Brown, Bliss Broyard, Andrew Delbanco, Elinor Lipman, Anita Shreve and Anne Rivers Siddons. Ms. Barber has been president and a Board member of both the Association of Authors Representative and Women's Media Group and currently serves on the Board of Literacy Partners, Inc. and the Duke University Library Board. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Coy Barefoot's first book, The Quixtar Revolution, was a Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com bestseller of 1999. His second book, The Corner, A History, about the University of Virginia community, will be released in the fall of 2000. (3/23 4 p.m.)

M. Rose Barkley is the author of Wayfaring Stranger (Sound Publishing Company). Barkley's poetry has been featured in various publications, including ESSENCE, Bi-Racial Child and The Sun (Baltimore). Barkley's next book is slated for summer 2000. (3/24 10 a.m.)

Sandi Barnett has been the Head Gardener at Agecroft Hall & Gardens in Richmond, Virginia for the past nine years. She has traveled and studied in various gardens in England and holds an Associate Degree in Horticulture. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Herman Beavers is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. The author of two books, he is working on a study of representations of African American masculinity in the 20th Century. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Brandon H. Beck is the founder of The McCormick Civil War Institute and the author of three civil war books about the battles of Winchester, Virginia. The current McCormick Professor of Civil War history at Shenandoah University, he edited and wrote the forword to his newest book, Third Alabama!: The Civil War Memoir of Brigadier General Cullen Andrews Battle, CSA. (3/22 7 p.m.)

Josef Beery is a graphic designer in Charlottesville and co-founder of the McGuffey ABC. (3/21 9:30 a.m., 3/22 9 a.m., 3/23 9 a.m., 3/24 9 a.m., 3/25 11:45 a.m.)

Molly Bendall's collection of poems After Estrangement won the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize and was published in 1992. Her poems and translations have appeared in many magazines, including The Paris Review, Field Poetry, and The American Poetry Review. She has won numerous prizes and was co-poetry editor of The Pushcart Prize Anthology XXIII. Her newest collection is Dark Summer (Miami University Press). (3/24 4 p.m.)

Beryl Lieff Benderly is the author or co-author of six books, including the classic Dancing Without Music: Deafness In America and, most recently, The Growth Of The Mind with Stanley Greenspan, M.D. She contributes to national publications ranging from Glamour to Oncology News International. 3/23 2 p.m.

Pinckney Benedict is an associate professor in the creative writing program at Hollins College. He has published two collections of short fiction and a novel, Dogs of God. He has adapted the John Buell novel, Four Days, into a feature film to be released this summer. (3/25 2 p.m.)

William Bennett is a sculptor and an Associate Professor of sculpture in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia. His work is represented by Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia. 3/22-26 1 p.m., (3/23 6 p.m.)

Jenny Bent is a literary agent with the Washington, DC firm of Graybill & English. She represents literary fiction, women's fiction, and nonfiction in the areas of health, psychology and spirituality. She grew up in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and has a BA and an MA in English literature from Cambridge University. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Dan Bieker, a home builder as well as a natural sciences instructor at Piedmont Virginia Community College, has been writing with the Apple Mountain Poets for nine years. (3/26 1 p.m.)

Amy Anastasia Birge, assistant professor of English at Temple University, Philadelphia, specializes in 18th- and 19th-century African-American literature. She recently completed The Mother of Slavery: Speaking and Writing the Middle Passage, a literary analysis of slave narratives. (3/23 6 p.m. )

Pam Black is an art instructor at Piedmont Virginia Community College and the University of Virginia. (3/22 2 p.m. )

Staige Blackford has been the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review for the last 25 years of its 75 years in existence. A graduate of UVa, he was editor of the student newspaper. He also attended Oxford, and worked for the CIA, Time Inc., the Southern Regional Council and the Virginia Pilot. (3/23 10 a.m.)

Matt Bloom is a native New Yorker. He has worked as a bartender, amateur boxer, migrant laborer, and truck driver. Blue Paradise is his first novel. (3/25 10 a.m.)

Dr. Alma H. Bond is the author of seven books including The Autobiography of Maria Callas, a Novel; Who Killed Virginia Woolf? A Psychobiography; and Is there Life After Analysis? She was a runner-up in the First Novel Contest of Hemingway Days. 3/23 2 p.m.

Coordinating Editor of IRIS: A Journal About Women, Eileen Boris is Professor of Studies in Women and Gender, University of Virginia. She has co-edited Voices of Women Historians: The Personal, The Political, The Professional (Indiana, 1999) and Complicating the Categories (Cambridge, 2000) (3/26 1:30 p.m.)

Lee Boudreaux grew up in Virginia's Northern Neck and graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1990. She worked at Longstreet Press in Atlanta before attending the Radcliffe Publishing Course and moving to New York in 1994. She is currently an editor at Random House. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Wali Brandon, is originally from New Jersey and started his professional career as a member of the Spirit House of Player. He moved to Virginia in 1972 and continued his training with the theatre department of Virginia Commonwealth University. He has worked as an historical interpreter at Williamsburg and Henricus Historic City, and he co-founded the Soweto Stage Company. He was a member of the Jazz Actors Theatre and the Comedy Troop, Richmond Out-of-Stock. Mr. Brandon is a partner in Historical Impressions. (3/22 10 a.m.)

Connie Briscoe is the author of bestselling novels Sisters and Lovers and Big Girls Don't Cry. Her most recently published novel is A Long Way From Home, inspired by the life of her own grandmother, a slave on James Madison's plantation. (3/25 8 p.m.)

Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day, and Southern Discomfort, and Loose Lips. She also collaborates on the Mrs. Murphy mystery series with her cat, Sneaky Pie. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, she lives in Charlottesville, VA. (3/25 6 p.m.)

Sallie E. Brown is a garden guide at Monticello and volunteers in the horticultural therapy program at Charlottesville's Jefferson Area Board of the Aging Center for Adult Rehabilitation and Eldercare. (3/24 2 p.m.)

C. Colston Burrell is a garden designer, award winning author, photographer, naturalist and teacher. He is author of Perennials for Today's Gardens, Perennial Combinations and A Gardener's Encyclopedia of Wildflowers. (3/22 2 p.m., 3/23 9:30 a.m.)

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Jeannette Caines has written seven children's books, including Just Us Women, Chilly Stomach and I Need a Lunch Box. (3/23 9:30 a.m.)

Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D., A.T.R., is an art therapist, artist, author, popular workshop leader and corporate consultant who has worked for Hallmark, Mattel, and the Walt Disney Company. She has authored twelve books including the Creative Journal, her bestseller Recovery of the Inner Child and her latest: Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams (Penguin Putnam) (3/24 6 p.m.)

Wendy Carlton, formerly an associate editor at Random House and assistant to the president of Ballantine Books, was a founding editor and now senior editor at Riverhead Books (Penguin Putnam). She has edited such notable authors as Mary Pipher and Nick Hornby. (3/24 4 p.m.)

Sully Carter is a graduate student at UVa as well as a storyteller. (3/17 7 p.m.)

John Casey is the author of a collection of stories and three novels, the second of which, Spartina, won the National Book Award. (3/25 2 p.m., 3/25 6 p.m.)

Fred Chappell teaches at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, essays, and fiction, including the novel Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You, Spring Garden: New and Selected Poems, A Way of Happening, and the upcoming Look Back All Back All the Green Valley. He was a judge for the 1997 National Book Award for Poetry and his writings have received many major prizes, including the Bollingen Prize in Poetry from Yale University and the Aiken/Taylor Award from the University of the South. (3/25 8 p.m.)

Griffeth Chaussee is a lecturer of Hindi and Urdu in the Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. His translation of Karachi and Other Poems: A Selection was published in the Annual of Urdu Studies in 1996. (3/23 4 p.m.)

Avery Chenoweth was a finalist for the Library of Virginia's fiction prize, for his book, Wingtips, a novel in stories. He has written for national magazines, including Harper's, People, Lingua Franca, and The New York Times Magazine, and is currently working on an internet start-up.

Kelly Cherry's most recent books are a collection of
stories, The Society of Friends, and Death and
Transfiguration (poems). Her novel Augusta Played was
recently re-issued by LSU. She has received the Hanes
Prize for a body of work in poetry. (3/25 12 p.m.)

Alan Cheuse is a fiction writer, essayist and book commentator for National Public Radio's evening news-magazine "All Things Considered." He is the author of 3 novels and several collections of short stories. Cheuse is a member of the writing faculty at GMU. His newest book, Lost and Old Rivers, was published 1998. (3/25 10 a.m. & 4 p.m.)

Priscilla Cogan is of Irish-American descent, a clinical psychologist, and practitioner of Lakota medicine rituals, Priscilla Cogan lives betwixt and between the Boston area and Michigan with her two Shelties and her Cherokee husband - storyteller, psychologist, and writer, Duncan Sings-Alone. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Ralph Alan Cohen is the Executive Director, Education Director, and co-founder of Shenandoah Shakespeare. A professor of English at James Madison University, he founded JMU's Studies Abroad Program and was one of the first recipients of Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award. He has twice guest-edited Shakespeare Quarterly and has published numerous articles on staging and teaching Shakespeare. He directed Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus for the 2000 Scoff and Grin tour currently on the road. (3/23 6 p.m.)

Michael Collier is a teacher and poet whose published volumes include The Clasp and Other Poems, The Folded Heart, The Neighbor, as well as The Ledge which is due out in April. Michael has also been the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference for five years. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Karen Jaegerman Collins is a founding member of a local book group (1993) that meets monthly. When not working as a bereavement counselor at the Hospice of the Piedmont, she paints and exhibits her work in Charlottesville and nearby communities. (3/23 7 p.m.)

Teri Ellen Cross was born in Cleveland, OH. She has a Masters Degree in International Affairs from Ohio University and will begin pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts in the Fall of 2000. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Agnes Cross-White, a graduate of Howard University, has published the Charlottesville-Albemarle Newspaper since 1990. She is the author of Charlottesville: The African American Community, a pictorial history. She has served as a consultant to educational and financial insititutions and in political campaigns. (3/23 4 p.m.)

Roberta Culbertson directs the Institute on Violence and Culture at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. She has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Virginia and has worked with refugees and other survivors of violence for nineteen years. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Stephen Cushman is Professor of English at the University of Virginia where he teaches the literature of the Civil War and American Poetry. The Civil War has been a theme in his poems and in Bloody Promenade, his first work of history. He has also published a poetry collection, Blue Pajamas, and written two critical studies of American poetry. (3/25 12 & 2 p.m..)

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Angela Daniel SilverStar, founder of SilverStar Graphics, is a graphic designer and an undergraduate Anthropology student at the University of Virginia. The name SilverStar was bestowed on Angela by Chief Webster "Little Eagle" Custalow, Chief of the Mattaponi Indian Tribe. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Hayes Davis was born in Philadelphia, PA. He has a Masters of Fine Arts in poetry from the University of Maryland and teaches English at Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Jodi Dean teaches in the Department of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and is the author of three books, including Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures From Outerspace to Cyberspace (Cornell University Press, 1998), which was chosen as one of the best books of the year by the Village Voice Literary Supplement. She has spoken about her research on alien abduction and American popular culture on the Discovery Channel and Fox Cable News and various radio shows and to audiences throughout North America and Europe. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Dr. Ruth Douglas is Chair of the Science and Technology Division at Piedmont Virginia Community College. She has extensive experience as a biology professor and has pursued studies in botany and horticulture. (3/22 2 p.m.)

Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the U.S. from 1993 tp 1995. She is currently Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia. On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999) is her most recent book of poetry. (3/25 8 p.m.)

Teresa Dowell-Vest is a Charlottesville native who performed in UVa's Marisol and wrote, directed, and performed in her one-woman show Countin' Stars and Smellin' Roses. She has been commissioned by Live Arts to write a play about Charlottesville's legendary community, Vinegar Hill. (3/24 4 p.m.)

Johanna Drucker is the 1999 Robertson Chair, Media Studies, UVa. Professor of English and author or The Century of Artists' Books (1995) and Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing, and Visual Poetics (1998). 3/24 4 p.m.

Judith Duerk earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Juilliard School. She studied as a postgraduate at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at Indiana University and taught music at the university level before beginning work in psychotherapy and music therapy. Circle of Stones and I Sit Listening to the Wind are bestsellers. (3/26 4 p.m.)

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Richard Edlich is the author of Medicine's Deadly Dust. (3/22 7 p.m.)

Evelyn Edson is a professor of history at Piedmont Virginia Community College. Her field of expertise is medieval maps, and she has written a book entitled, Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed their World. She enjoys travel and would tell lies about it, if she could get away with them. (3/25 10 a.m.)

Amira El-Zein, Professor of Arabic and Comparative literature at Georgetown University, is the co-editor of Culture, Creativity and Exile and the author of two books of poetry in Arabic: Bedouin of Hell and the Book of Palm Trees. Her forthcoming book is on the jinn. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Claudia Emerson's poems have appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review and The Southern Review. A native of Chatham, VA, she was awarded an NEA fellowship in 1994 and is the author of Pharaoh, Pharaoh. She teaches at Mary Washington College. (3/25 12 p.m.)

Jason Epstein joined Doubleday & Co. in 1950. Two years later, he launched Anchor Books, the progenitor of the so-called paperback revolution. At Random House, which he joined in 1958, he served for many years as editorial director. He has served as editor for many authors including Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, E.L. Doctorow and Gore Vidal. He is a founder of the New York Review of Books and the founder, with Edmund Wilson, of The Library of America. He created the Readers' Catalog, the precursor of on-line book selling. He has won numerous awards, including the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the Curtis Benjamin Award of the American Association of Publishers for Creative Publishing. (3/25 10 a.m.)

Ken Eagle Feather is the Director of Marketing at Hampton Roads Publishing Company. (3/22 4 p.m.)

Diana Ferraro was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1944. She is the author of four novels and three books of stories. As a specialist in political and cultural Argentine issues, she has published seven books of essays. (3/23 2 p.m.)

James Fox was a journalist in Africa and later at the London Sunday Times and is author of the bestselling novel White Mischief. His most recent book is Five Sisters, The Langhornes of Virginia. (3/25 12 p.m.)

John Frazier currently teaches creative writing, rhetoric and American literature at Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC. His poetry has been published in many journals including The Massachusetts Review and Presence Africane. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Trained in the I-Ching and Feng Shui applications of Chinese philosophy, Sally Fretwell's articles have appeared in Gulf Shore Life and Niche, and in Contemporary Earth Design: A Feng Shui Anthology. She is also the author of Feng Shui~Back to Balance. (3/26 2:30 p.m.)

J. Ron Furqueron is a native Virginian and the director and co-founder of Historical Impressions, a living history and literary company. He has worked at the Georgia Museum of Art and New York Historical Society. He served as the executive director of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond and is an associate editor of North & South. (3/22 10 a.m.)

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Gary W. Gallagher is a Professor of American History at the University of Virginia. He is the author or editor of 18 books relating to the era of the Civil War, including Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee's Gallant General, The Confederate War, and Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. Gallagher received the 1990 Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, the 1991 Nevins-Freeman Award, the 1999 Fletcher Pratt Award, and shared the 1998 Lincoln Prize (with three other authors). He was co-founder of the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Studies and served as a member of the Board of the Civil War Trust. (3/25 12 p.m.)

Patricia Garfinkel has published three books of poetry - the most recent from George Braziller Publishers. She is also senior policy analyst/speechwriter for the Director of the National Science Foundation. (3/26 1:30 p.m.)

George Garrett , author of twenty-six books and the editor of eighteen, has received Guggenheim, Ford, and NEA fellowships and is the Henry Hoyns Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. (3/25 2 p.m.)

Jennifer Geddes is the editor of the new, interdisciplinary journal, The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture. She is also a Research Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at UVa. (3/26 1:30 p.m.)

Langhorne Gibson, Jr. graduated from UVa and the Darden School. His second career after 25 years in investment banking is writing history and biography. Since 1990 he has produced four books, including The Gibson Girl: Portrait of a Southern Belle, and most recently, Cabell's Canal: The Story of the James River and Kanawha. (3/25 12 p.m.)

Brian Gilmore, born and raised in Washington D.C. is the author of "Elvis Presley Is Alive And Well And Living In Harlem". His writings appear regularly in The Washington Post and Emerge Magazine. He has also published in Callaloo, Obsidian II. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Nikki Giovanni is a professor, poet, essayist, and lecturer whose numerous published works include Black Feeling, Black Talk, Re: Creation, and Those Who Ride the Night Winds. PBS produced a film called Spirit to Spirit: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, and she performed A Signal in the Land with the Johnson City Symphony orchestra. (3/24 8 p.m.)

Ann Goethe has published short stories, poems, essays, and plays. Her first novel, Midnight Lemonade, was also published in Korea, Germany, Sweden and Israel, it was a Literary Guild and Doubleday featured Alternative Selection and a finalist for the Discovery Prize. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Tracy Grant is a frequent contributor to Today's Black Woman, Black Men, BET Weekend, and Mosaic literary magazine. Tracy also conducts creative writing workshops for young people with the Rheedlen Center in New York. Hellified is his first novel. (3/23 6 p.m.)

The former Women's Soccer Coach at UVa from 1986 to 1995, Lauren Gregg was the Assistant Coach of the victorious 1999 USA Women's Soccer Team. Growing up in Wellesley, MA, she was introduced to soccer and went on to play and coach while pursuing both undergraduate and Master's degrees. (3/23 4 p.m.)

Doug Grissom is an Associate Professor and head of the playwriting program at UVa. His plays have been produced in regional and university theatres, including those in D.C., Roanoke, Florida, and L.A.. His play, Deep Down, was performed in New York last fall. Two other plays, aimed at students, are currently on tour. (3/24 4 p.m.)

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Kate Hamilton is a poet and writer who lives in Charlottesville. (3/26 1:30 p.m.)

Kendra Hamilton is a poet, playwright, essayist, and journalist who lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. She has been published most recently in Callaloo, Brightleaf, and Southern Cultures. (3/25 4 p.m.)

John Harrell is a cofounder of Foolery, a theatre company devoted to process. (3/23 6 p.m.)

Stephen Harrigan is a novelist, journalist and screenwriter. A former staff writer and senior editor at Texas Monthly, his work has appeared in many publications, including Outside, The New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, Audubon, Life, and The New Yorker. Harrigan is the author of six books, including novels Aransas and Jacob's Well and essay collections, including Water and Light: A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef. His work as a screenwriter has included projects for HBO and ABC and projects with Sydney Pollack and Jane Fonda, among others. His screenplay Ocean of Storms, written with Lawrence Wright, is currently in development with Warren Beatty and the CBS movie Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, will be broadcast this fall. (3/25 2 p.m.)

Reginald Harris is Technology Training Manager for the Pratt Library in Baltimore, Maryland. His work has appeared in a variety of publications including Drumvoices Revue, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Obsidian II, and the His3 (FSG, 1999) anthology. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Elva Trevino Hart has a B.A. in theoretical mathematics and an M.S. in computer science/engineering from Stanford University. She was a computer professional for twenty years. She lives in Virginia and is working on a novel and a story collection. (3/20 9:30 a.m., 3/25 10 a.m.)

Adrian Havill is the author of six books including biographies of Jack Kent Cooke, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, and Christopher Reeve. His recent The Mother, the Son, and the Socialite, nominated for an Edgar award, is in production as a TV miniseries. (3/23 2 p.m.)

Alex Heard is the Executive Editor of Wired magazine. He has also edited and written for the New York Times Magazine, Outside, the New Republic, Slate, and many other publications. He is the author of Apocalypse Pretty Soon. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Mary Ellen Heinen Vice-President, Sales and Marketing, Co-founder of Glassbook Inc., was formerly the Director of Product Marketing at NELINET, INC., which provides libraries with information technology training, consulting services, and access to electronic information. Before NELINET, Mary Ellen was the Head of Reference at the University of Wisconsin Parkside Library. (3/25 2 p.m.)

Ruth Henderson was born in Union City, NJ. She is a graduate of Queens College in Charlotte, NC. She is a retired teacher and is an active volunteer with the Alzheimer's Association's Shenandoah Valley Chapter in Harrisonburg, VA. (3/24 10 a.m.)

John Hightower is the President of the Mariner's Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia. (3/22 5:30 p.m.)

David Hilyard started working with the Boys and Girls Club in 1995 in North Carolina and has continued his work with the organization now in Charlottesville. (3/23 4 p.m.)

Dan Hinkley is one of the pre-eminent plant explorers in the world. He co-owns Heronswood Nursery Ltd. near Seattle, WA which distributes an annual catalogue. (3/22 2 p.m.)

Susan Tyler Hitchcock is the author of six nonfiction books, including Gather Ye Wild Things, Coming About, and, most recently The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History. She regularly writes for Albemarle, the University of Virginia Alumni News, and C'Ville Weekly. (3/22 4 p.m., 3/23 4 p.m., 3/24 4 p.m., 3/25 10 a.m.)

Elva Mason Holland, Esq. is a partner in the Charlottesville office of the Washington, D.C. firm of Baise, Miller & Freer. She represents a number of artists, including writers, composers, television product companies, and various performing artists. (3/24 4 p.m.)

A transplanted Northerner, Sarah Honenberger lives and writes fiction in rural Virginia. The first place winner of Antietam Review's Fiction 1999 contest and of New Millenium's Summer 1999 contest, her stories also have appeared in Blueline, Rockhurst Review, and The Smith College Quarterly. (3/26)

Elizabeth Howard, a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, is a writer and documentary producer. She specializes in the topics of women and health for major women's magazines. (3/24 4 p.m.)

Robert Hueckstedt won third prize in a translation competition sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association, for his translation of The Perplexity of Hariya Hercules from Hindi. He is Professor of Hindi and Sanskrit at UVa. (3/23 4 p.m.)

Susan Hull, a 1988 graduate of the MFA program at UVa, is chairman of the English department at Albemarle High School. (3/26 1 p.m.)

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Susan Imhof received her MFA from Warren Wilson College and was formerly the Poetry Editor of The Blue Penny Review. (3/25 2 p.m., 3/26 1 p.m.)

E. Renee Ingram is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief of Administration at America's Promise - The Alliance for Youth, Inc. Ms. Ingram was the Vice President and Treasurer for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 1994, she established the African American Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc., to provide awareness of endangered African American historic sites and to serve as an educational resource center. (3/23 6 p.m.)

Anne Isaacs was born in Buffalo, NY and holds degrees in literature. She is the author of 4 published works: Swamp Angel, Treehouse Tales, Cat Up a Tree, and her new novel, Torn Thread. (3/22 7 p.m., 3/23 9:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m., 3/24 10 a.m.)

Bruce A. Jacobs is author of Race Manners: Navigating The Minefield Between Black and White Americans and the poetry collection Speaking Through My Skin, which won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize. He lives in Maryland. (3/23 6 p.m.)

Mark Jaffe writes on environmental issues for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Author of And No Birds Sing, he has been a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University and a science writing fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. His new book is The Age of the Gilded Dinosaur. 3/23 6 p.m.

Kay Redfield Jamison, Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, has published widely about mood disorders, suicide, psychotherapy, and lithium. She is the author of Touched by Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide (selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of 1999), and is co-author of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness. Her memoir about her own experiences with manic-depressive illness, An Unquiet Mind, is currently under development as a feature film. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Carol Brown Janeway was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. After graduating from Cambridge University in Modern and Mediaeval Languages, she worked briefly as a literary agent in London before moving to New York, where she is Vice President, Senior Editor and International Rights Director of the Knopf Publishing Group. She also translates literature from the French and the German; among her recent publications are Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Hans Ulrich Treichel's Lost. (3/25 12 p.m.)

Katherine Jankowski is the Director of the Laurent Clerc Education Center at Gallaudet University and author of Deaf Empowerment: Emergence, Struggle and Rhetoric. (3/24 7 p.m.)

Valerie Jean is a poet/writer/teacher/editor. She teaches a creative writing course at the University of Maryland, runs a community writing workshop at Sisterspace & Books in DC, and runs her own creative critiquing business. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Brandon D. Johnson, from Gary, Indiana, has lived in the Washington, D.C. area for the past 21 years. He was a Larry Neal Writer's Competition Awardee and DC Arts and Humanities Fellowship Grant recipient. He is author of The Strangers Between. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Matthew Jones has published several critically acclaimed books, including A Single Shot, Give Us a Kiss, Blind Pursuit, The Cooter Farm and The Elements of Hitting. His most recently published novel is Deepwater. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Peter Jones is the Host of "Kid & Kaboodle," Central Virginia's only two hour children's radio program. Peter also continues to work in storytelling, improvisation, and production of his own comedic plays. Peter is currently co-authoring a book on everyone's favorite television castaway, Gilligan, with UVa Professor Ed Freeman. (3/26 12 p.m.)

Professor Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. is the Research Archivist in the University of Virginia Library's Special Collections Department. He specializes in Civil War and African-American history and is the author of 50 articles, book reviews and essays and three books including Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia (University Press of Virginia, 1995). This book, a History Book Club selection, was named by Publisher's Weekly as one of 1995's best nonfiction books. (3/23 6 p.m. )

Monty Joynes, a UVa graduate, is the author of three novels in the acclaimed "Booker Series," Naked Into the Night, Lost in Las Vegas, and Save the Good Seed, which deal with a white man's introduction to Native American life and spirituality. (3/24 10 a.m.)

Tim Junkin spent his boyhood summers on Maryland's Eastern Shore and worked as a waterman on the Bay. A principal in the law firm he founded in Washington, DC, in 1981, he lives in Potomac, MD, with his wife and their two children. The Waterman is his first novel. (3/25 12 p.m.)

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Pauline Kaldas immigrated from Eygpt to the United States in 1969. Her work has appeared in Food for Our Grandmothers, Cultural Activisms, and Post Gibran Anthology of New Arab American Writing. She received her Ph.D. from SUNY Binghamton and is currently teaching at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. (3/25 2 p.m.)

Honour Kane has been produced and workshopped at New York's Public Theater and Lincoln Center Theater, the Royal Court in London, and the Sydney Mardi Gras Arts Festival. She received playwriting fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the NEA and the Pew Fellowships in the Arts. She earns her living as an Associate Editor for the publishing arm of a Global Media Conglomerate. (3/25 2 p.m.)

Trena Keating is a Senior Editor at HarperCollins Publishers where she acquires mainstream literary fiction and serious non-fiction ranging from adventure to memoir, from journalistic exposés to psychology. Her titles include First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung's stirring memoir of the Cambodia Genocide and the forthcoming The Last Dive by Bernie Chowdhury. For a dash of humor, she edits "The Simpsons" books by Matt Groening. (3/25 12 p.m.)

Dee Keith taught Creative Drama and Children's Theatre at Broome County Community College in Binghamton, NY. She has also taught in elementary school and gifted programs. Dee is a volunteer in the Charlottesville Recreation Department "Kids on the Block" puppets. (3/25 2 p.m.)

Rachael Kelly, who has cooked professionally for more than ten years, is a contributing editor for Albemarle magazine, writing articles on food, wine, and spirits. A published author since 1984, she has written for numerous magazines including The Atlantic. (3/25 10 a.m.)

Matt Kelly lives in Albemarle County. He is the food editor for the Charlottesville Daily Progress. He has written two cookbooks on grilling and numerous articles on food, cooking, and agriculture. He has been cooking for friends and family for more than twenty years. (3/25 10 a.m.)

Former children's librarian, Dr. Kindig is one of the creators of the Virginia Center for Children's Books at the University of Virginia. Their web site, which is an excellent resource for children's books, can be found at http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/tempo/VCCB.html (3/25 2 p.m.)

Dean King is the author, co-author or editor of nine books on a variety of subjects. His most recent books is Patrick O'Brian: a Life Revealed, the first and only biography of this world-renowned Irish author. He also published a companion book to this work titled A Sea of Words. (3/22 5:30 p.m.)

Ruth Klippstein savors twelve years of reading group meetings as support and inspiration for her rural life at Springtree Community. She works at Scottsville Library. (3/23 6 p.m.)

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Peter Landesman is the author of The Raven, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for best novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His journalism has appeared in the New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. In addition to his writing, Landesman is a painter whose work has been shown at galleries in New York City and Long Island. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Marc Landy is chair of the Political Science department at Boston College. His books include The Environmental Protection Agency: Asking the Wrong Questions (with Marc Roberts and Stephen Thomas); The New Politics of Public Policy (with Martin Levin); and, most recently, Presidential Greatness, co-authored with Sidney M. Milkis. (3/22 4 p.m.)

Starling Lawrence was educated at Princeton and Pembroke College, England. He is Editor-in-Chief at W.W. Norton, at which he has been for 30 years. He is the author of Montenegro: A Novel and Legacies: Stories. (3/22 5:30 p.m.)

Edward Lay is Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia, where he teaches architecture, architectural history, and historic preservation. For many years, he has been teaching, guiding tours of, and writing about the important architectural legacy that surrounds us in Jefferson Country. (3/25 2 p.m.)

Fred Leebron's stories appear in publications such as DoubleTake, TriQuarterly, and Ploughshares. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, he has received Fulbright, Michener, and Stegner Fellowships. His second novel, Six Figures, will be published by Knopf in March 2000. (3/25 2 p.m.)

Phyllis K. Leffler, Director of the Institute for Public History at the University of Virginia, is studying UVa's 20th-century history. She also participated in a study of the Jews of Charlottesville, published as To Seek the Peace of the City. (3/23 4 p.m.)

Sharon Leiter has published a volume of poetry, The Lady and the Bailiff of Time, a literary study, Akhmatova's Petersburg, and her poetry has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Georgia Review. She won a 1990 Virginia Prize for fiction. (3/26 12 p.m.)

Janet Lembke is a natural historian and a translator of Greek and Latin. She is the author of several books of natural history, including her latest, Despicable Species: On Cowbirds, Kudzu, Hornworms, and Other Scourges. She divides her time between her home in Staunton, Virginia, and the banks of North Carolina's lower Neuse River. (3/26 3:30 p.m.)

Alice Leonhardt is a teacher, speaker and author of over 40 books. Her most recent book is Shadow Horse, a middle grade mystery written under the pen name Alison Hart. She has been nominated for the Edgar Award in the juvenile division and is currently working on Hostage and Pursuit, two books in her police work series for Random House Children's Books. (3/24 10 a.m.)

Alan Lightman is a novelist, essayist, physicist, and educator. His last three books are the novels Einstein's Dreams and Good Benito and the collection of essays Dance for Two. His newest novel, The Diagnosis, will be published by Pantheon in September. (3/23 8 p.m.)

Elinor Lipman is the author of the novels The Inn at Lake Devine; Isabel's Bed; The Way Men Act; and Then She Found Me, and a collection of stories, Into Love and Out Again. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Salon Magazine, Yankee, Playgirl, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, and Self. She has taught writing at Simmons, Smith, and Hampshire Colleges. The Ladies' Man is her fifth novel. (3/23 8 p.m., 3/25 12 p.m.)

A native of Scotland, Margot Livesey lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London. She is the author of the novels Homework and Criminals, and of Learning by Heart, a collection of stories. The Missing World is her newest novel (Knopf 2000). (3/25 4 p.m.)

Jared Loewenstein has been the Curator of the Borges Collection at the UVa Library since its beginnings in 1977 and has published A Descriptive Catalogue of the Jorge Luis Borges Collection at the University of Virginia Library. The Borges Collection is the most extensive and complete in the world. (3/23 2 p.m.)

Judy Longley is the author of Parallel Lines, My Journey Toward You: Poems, and Rowing Through Eden. (3/26 1 p.m.)

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A native of South Africa, Sindiwe Magona currently lives in Bronx, NY, and has worked for the UN since 1984. Her short stories, autobiographies, poems and essays have won numerous international awards. She has read her work at prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center and the Ford Foundation. (3/25 10 a.m.)

Jackie Henderson Main was born in New Jersey and grew up in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She earned a master's degree in counseling psychology from James Madison University. She is currently a counselor with the Virginia State Department of Rehabilitative Servies. (3/24 10 a.m.)

Jean Said Makdisi was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Cairo. She is the author of Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir (1990; selected as a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year), and her second book, Inside History: Three Generations of Arab Women is nearing completion. She has also written on a variety of subjects, including women's issues, the environment, and the Egyptian cinema. (3/24 2 p.m. & 3/25 4 p.m.)

Thomas Mallon's novels include Dewey Defeats Truman, Henry and Clara, and Aurora 7. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine and GQ, and is the author of books about plagiarism (Stolen Words) and diaries (A Book of One's Own). In 1998 he received the National Book Critics Circle Award for reviewing. He lives in Westport, Connecticut. (3/25 2 p.m.)

Judy Mandell's books include What To Expect In Your Fifties, Magazine Editors Talk To Writers, and Book Editors Talk To Writers. She contributes to the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, New Choices, and other publications. (3/23 2 p.m.)

Kenny Marotta teaches fiction writing at UVa and the Charlottesville Writing Center. His novel, A Piece of Earth (Morrow), was published in 1985, and his collection of short stories and a novella, A House on the Piazza (Guernica), in 1988. 3/26 3:30 p.m.

Elizabeth Massie is an award-winning author of adult and young adult fiction. Recent works include teen novels Power of Persuasion, The Great Chicago Fire, Not With our Blood, Winter of the Dead, Adult Dreams of the Dark and Welcome Back to the Night. (3/23 7 p.m., 3/24 10 a.m.)

Sharon Bell Mathis is the author of nine books for children and young adults. The Hundred Penny Box was a Newbery Honor Book. Her most recent book is Running Girl: The Diary of Ebonee Rose. (3/25 1:30 p.m.)

Khaled Mattawa is the author of a book of poems, Ismailia Eclipse, (Sheep Meadow Press, 1996), translator of two books of Arabic poetry, and co-editor of Post Gibran: Anthology of New Arab American Writing. He is the recipient of many awards including a Guggenheim fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mattawa was born in Libya and has lived in the U.S. since 1979. (3/25 2 p.m.)

Charlotte Matthews earned her MFA from Warren Wilson and teaches at Tandem Friends School in Charlottesville. (3/25 2 p.m., 3/26 10 a.m.)

Shara McCallum was born in Jamaica and immigrated to the US at the age of nine. Her first book of poetry, The Water Between Us, won the 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was published in October of 1999. She is the winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize and her poetry has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in several journals. Currently she lives in Tennessee and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis. (3/26 1:30 p.m.)

Karen Salyer McElmurray teaches creative writing at Lynchburg College. She has published essays in numerous magazines and journals as well as a novel entitled Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven. (3/25 10 a.m.)

Kara McLane is a cofounder of Foolery, a theatre company devoted to process. (3/23 6 p.m.)

Ann McMillan is the author of Dead March (1998) and Angel Trumpet (1999), Civil War mysteries featuring Confederate nurse Narcissa Powers and free black doctoress Judah Daniel, published by Viking Penguin. (3/23 2 p.m.)

Katherine McNamara is founding editor and publisher of Archipelago http://www.archipelago.org, a literary quarterly published on the world wide web, and author of Narrow Road to the Deep North, a non-fiction narrative, which is forthcoming. (3/25 2 p.m., 3/26 1:30 p.m.)

Thadd McQuade is a cofounder of Foolery, a theatre company devoted to process. He is Artistic Director of the group, and has written, directed, and acted for them. He's made a silent film called "The Winemaker" and has many roles for Shenandoah Shakespeare. (3/23 6 p.m. 3/23 6 p.m.)

D.J. Meador is professor emeritus at the University of Virginia Law School and recently served as director of a Senate commission studying the appellate court system. He is the author of Unforgotten and His Father's House, which has been optioned for motion-picture adaptation. (3/22 7 p.m.)

Mameve Medwed is a short story writer whose stories have appeared in Redbook and the Missouri Review. She has also written two novels, Mail, and most recently, Host Family. (3/25 12 & 4 p.m.)

Brad Meltzer is the author of The New York Times bestsellers The Tenth Justice and Dead Even. Raised in Brooklyn and Miami, Brad graduated with honors from the University of Michigan and earned a degree from Columbia Law School in 1996. He now lives outside of Washington, DC, with his wife, Cori, also an attorney. His new book, The First Counsel, is due out in January 2001. (3/24 2 p.m.)

James Melvin illustrates the books by Suzanne Tate. A versatile artist, James also operates a studio and gallery on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. (3/23 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m.)

Martha Mendenhall is a cofounder of Foolery, a theatre company devoted to process. (3/23 6 p.m.)

Holly Menino is the author of Forward Motion: Horses, Humans, and the Competitive Enterprise and a novel for children, Pandora: A Raccoon’s Journey. A former scholarly editor and writer on the natural world for public radio, she is currently a contributor to Smithsonian and The Chronicle of the Horse. (3/23 4 p.m)

Ernesto Mercer, a poet living in Washington, DC, for the past three years has been a Cave Canem fellow. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Christi Merrill is the author of the article "Translation from Modern South Asian Languages," which was published in The Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English, and "Anames in the Language of Writing," published in Studies in Twentieth Century Literature. (3/23 4 p.m., 3/24 2 p.m.)

Farzaneh Milani studied Comparative Literature at the University of California in Los Angeles. She teaches Persian Literature and Women's Studies at the University of Virginia. Milani is the author of "Veils and Words" and with Kaveh Safa of "A Cup of Sin," translated poems of Simin Behbahani. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Sidney M. Milkis is a professor of government and senior scholar at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. His books include The American Presidency: Origins and Development (with Michael Nelson), The Politics of Regulatory Change (with Richard A. Harris), The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System since the New Deal; Political Parties and Constitutional Government; and, most recently, Presidential Greatness, co-authored with Marc Landy. (3/22 4 p.m.)

E. Ethelbert Miller is a poet, whose works include Andromeda, Synergy: An Anthology of Washington D.C. Black Poetry, and In Search of Color Everywhere. Whispers, Secrets and Promises is his most recent book of poetry and Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer and Beyond the Frontier are forthcoming. (3/26 1:30 p.m.)

Master storyteller Tololwa M. Mollel, an Arusha Masai, grew up on his grandfather's coffee farm in Tanzania, an hour's drive from Mt. Kilimanjaro. After receiving his BA in Literature and Theatre in Tanzania, he moved to Canada in 1966. In the late 1970s he returned to Tanzania to teach University and co-direct a children's theatre and arts group. He is the author of Shadow Dance, The Orphan Boy, Ananse's Feast, The Flying Tortoise and My Rows and Piles of Coins, which was just named a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. (3/22 7 p.m.)

Lenard D. Moore, 1997 Margaret Walker Alexander Creative Writing Award recipient, is founder and executive director of Carolina African American Writers' Collective. Author of three books (including Desert Storm: A Brief History), he teaches Poetry Writing at North Carolina State University. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Jonathan D. Moreno is a Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia. He has published widely on ethics and medicine, including his column, "Judgment Call," which appears on ABCNEWS.com's Health & Living page, and his newest book, Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments On Humans, 1999. (3/24 6 p.m.)

Philip Morgan is editor of the William and Mary Quarterly, a journal devoted to the study of early American history and culture, and professor of history at the College of William and Mary. (3/23 10 a.m.)

Jim Morrison runs a freelance writing business in Norfolk, Virginia. His stories have appeared in Smithsonian, The New York Times, George, This Old House, Southwest Spirit, Reader's Digest, Playboy, Utne Reader, Good Housekeeping, The Washington Post and Family PC, among others. (3/24 4 p.m.)

Jake Morrissey has been a senior editor at Scribner since 1998, where he edits both fiction and non-fiction. He has a degree in English from the University of Notre Dame and a master's in journalism from Columbia University. Before coming to Scribner, he was an editor at Universal Press Syndicate, where he edited The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, William F. Buckley and Mary McGrory, among other cartoonists and writers. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Wendy Mortensen, Principal of La Lune Designs in Richmond, has extensive knowledge of and interest in the culture of Bali – particularly its fine arts and garden designs. (3/24 2 p.m.)

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Mark Neely is the McCabe-Greer Professor of Civil War History at Penn State and the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties and The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America. (3/25 12 p.m. )

Liza Nelson is an essayist and columnist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, McCall's, Self, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Playing Botticelli is her first novel. (3/24 4 p.m.)

Katherine Neville's first novel, The Eight, was a bestseller and her second novel, A Calculated Risk was a New York Times Notable Book. Her most recently published book is The Magic Circle, an international bestseller. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Jeff Newton teaches English and reading at Spotswood H.S., is president of the VSRA's Secondary Reading Council, co-director of the Central Virginia Writing Project, a reader for AP English exams, and co-author of Teaching English in the Block. (3/23 7 p.m.)

Family themes are at the heart of Claudia O'Keefe's books, which include the anthologies Father, due out in May from Pocket Books, Forever Sisters (1999), and Mother (1996). She is also the author of the novel, Black Snow Days. (3/26 1:30 p.m.)

Robert M. O'Neil is the Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is Free Speech in the College Community. (3/24 10 a.m.)

Gregory Orr teaches poetry writing at the University of Virginia. The author of six collections of poetry, he will publish his seventh, Orpheus and Eurydice this fall. He is currently completing a book about poetry entitled The Three Strange Angels: Survival, Healing, and Lyric Poetry. He is Poetry Consultant to the Virginia Quarterly Review and on the editorial board of Sacred Bearings: A Journal on Violence and Spiritual Life. (3/24 2 p.m., 3/25 2 p.m.)

Wilma Paceley has served from 1992-1995 as Secretary and subsequently Vice President for Virginia's State Master Gardener Program. She is a certified Virginia Nurseryman and works with Garden South, a subsidiary of Southern States. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Caroline Parr, Coordinator of Children's Services for the Central Rappahannock Regional Library in Fredericksburg, is the Chair of this year's Newbery Committee. She writes a weekly column on children's books for Fredericksburg's daily paper, and co-edits Capitol Choices, an annual list of recommended books for young people. (3/24 10 a.m.)

Ann B. Parsons, Director of Education of Norfolk Botanical Garden, has worked with other botanical gardens, school systems and universities to develop proposals and secure funding for accredited teacher education programs. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Nancy Peacock has written short stories and two novels, Life Without Water, which was cited as a New York Times Book Review 1996 Notable Books and Home Across the Road, published in 1999. (3/25 2 p.m., 3/26 1:30 p.m.)

Mickey Pearlman is the author of What To Read: The Essential Guide For Reading Group Members & Other Book Lovers. She is the editor of three collections of memoirs, a member of the National Book Critics Circle and in 1994 was named one of Mirabella Magazine's "1,000 Women for the 1990's." (3/23 6 p.m., 3/25 4 p.m.)

Tom Perrotta is the author of three books--Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies, The Wishbones, and, most recently, Election, which was made into an acclaimed movie. His new novel, Joe College, will be published by St. Martin's Press in the Fall of 2000. (3/24 4 p.m., 3/25 12 p.m.)

Barbara A. Perry is Professor of Government at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. In 1994-95 she served as the Judicial Fellow at the United States Supreme Court, where she won the Tom C. Clark Award as the outstanding fellow. (3/25 12 p.m.)

James Peterson is the author of Vegetables (winner of the James Beard Award), Fish & Shellfish (winner of the Julia Child award for single subject cookbook), Sauces (winner of the James Beard cookbook of the year award), and Splendid Soups. He taught at The French Culinary Institute and Peter Kump's Cooking School. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. (3/24 2 p.m., 3/25 10 a.m.)

Kathleen Phalen has written for The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. She teaches journalism at Mary Baldwin College and creative non-fiction at the Charlottesville Writing Center. Her second book, Wellness East & West, was recently published by Tuttle Journey Editions. (3/26 3:30 p.m.)

Hermine Pinson is an Associate Professor of English at the College of William and Mary. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Callaloo, African American Review, Common Bonds: Stories by and About Modern Texas Women. She has published two collections of poems , Ashe and Mama Yetta and Other Poems (Wings Press). Her critical essays on the poetry of Melvin Dixon and Ntozake Shange, respectively, have appeared in Melus and Paintbrush. She is presently working on a collection of short stories entitled In the Land of Ooh Blah Dee. (3/24 10 a.m.)

Candice Poarch is the author of five Arabesque/BET books and contributing author of two anthologies. Her latest book, Tender Escape, was released in February, 2000. (3/23 6 p.m.)

Browning Porter is director and a poetry instructor at the Charlottesville Writing Center. His poems have appeared in New England Review, Poetry East, Agni, Virginia Quarterly Review and Meridian. He is also lead singer for the folk group Nickeltown. (3/26 3:30 p.m.)

Arlene A. Carter-Pounds is a professor, poet and performer whose books include Cracking Walnuts & Other Goodies, and Tucked in Real Real Tight, compilations of her varied memorable experiences. (3/23 10 a.m.& 1 p.m., 3/24 9 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.)

Reynolds Price is a former Rhodes Scholar. His novel Kate Vaiden won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and A Long and Happy Life won the William Faulkner Award. His most recent book is Letter to Man in the Fire: Does God Exist and Does He Care? (3/24 6 p.m. & 7 p.m.)

Deborah Prum writes fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. Her book Rats, Bulls and Flying Machines: A Young Reader's History of the Renaissance, has just been released. Ivan, Ivan, Peter and Catherine, Too (co-authored with Helen Khazhina) will be released soon. (3/26 1:30 p.m.)

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Kent Raine has a B.A. in theatre from Roanoke College and has worked professionally in scenic design for many years. He is still active in children's theatre and hopes to do more within the community. A local and traveling musician, Kent is thoroughly enjoying his first year in teaching music and theatre. (3/23 12 p.m.)

Russ Reed and Valerie Wilkinson, authors of Whispers from Our Soul, are a CPA and insurance entrepreneur who stumbled unexpectedly upon their souls. The book chronicles their story of spiritual discovery and teaches how daily decision making can enhance one's own soul. (3/26 1:00 p.m.)

Kristen Staby Rembold is the author of the collection of poems, Coming Into This World and Felicity, a novel. (3/26 1 p.m.)

DJ Renegade is a performance poet based in Washington, DC, who performs around the country. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Harriet Resio has produced and directed over a hundred productions and founded and served as artistic director of The Children's Theatre Workshop of Vicksburg, Mississippi and Opera Vicksburg. She has taught theatre at the college and high school levels for 17 years. (3/23 2:15 p.m.)

Barbara Rich is a theatre critic and freelance journalist. Locally, she has written for The Daily Progress, C'ville Weekly, Albemarle Magazine, and is currently the theatre critic for The Observer. She won VA Press Association Awards for Critical Writing in 1991, '95 and '97, the last for first place. (3/24 4 p.m.)

Steven Rinehart, author of the short-story collection Kick in the Head (Doubleday, April 2000), grew up overseas in a military family and went to college in Hawaii and Iowa. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the James Michener/Copernicus Society. He lives in New York City and is working on a novel for Doubleday. (3/25 2 p.m.)

Rob Riordan is the editor of the recent Nature Conservancy anthology Uncommon Wealth: Essays on Virginia's Wild Places. (3/26 3:30 p.m.)

Alexandra Ripley is best known as the author of Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. Her newest long historical novel is about the house she lives in, the 18th century Lafayette Hill Tavern. Zut alors! 3/26 1:30 p.m.

David L. Robbins is the author of Souls to Keep and a historical novel, War of the Rats. His third novel, The End of War, is forthcoming in the summer. A former attorney and freelance writer, he now writes full time in Richmond, Virginia.

Cokie Roberts is a co-anchor of the ABC news program "This Week With Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts" and congressional analyst for ABC News. She is the author of We Are Our Mothers' Daughters and serves as a news analyst for National Public Radio. Steve Roberts' distinguished career includes service as White House and Congressional correspondent for The New York Times and senior political writer for U.S. News and World Report, Washington Week in Review and CNN's "Late Edition." Currently he is the Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. Cokie and Steve Roberts also write a weekly column for the New York Daily News that is syndicated in major newspapers around the country. (3/24 11:45 a.m.)

Joel Roberts is a nationally recognized media coach and past morning talk show host for America's largest radio station. (3/25 3:30 p.m.)

Brewster Milton Robertson is a freelance writer whose debut novel, Rainy Days and Sundays, won the first annual Golden Eye Literary Prize. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he is a regular contributor to Publisher's Weekly and has been published in numerous periodicals, including the Los Angeles Times, USA Weekend magazine, Southern Book Trade. (3/25 10 a..m.)

Jack Robertson is the Fine Arts Librarian at Fiske-Kimball Fine Arts Library at University of Virginia. (3/23 6 p.m.)

Helen Rodman was born in Philadelphia of Richmond heritage. After 30 years in the foreign service, she and her husband retired to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she founded the Piedmont Chapter of the Compassionate Friends, which she considers her most important accomplishment. (3/23 10 a.m.)

Carlin Romano is literary critic of The Philadelphia Inquirer and professor of philosophy at Bennington College. His criticism has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, Lingua Franca and other national publications. A former president of the National Book Critics Circle, he is completing "America the Philosophical," about the role of philosophy in American life, for Alfred A. Knopf. (3/25 10 a.m.)

MJ Rose is the author of Lip Service, the first novel discovered on line and picked up by the NY publishing giants. Her forthcoming book, which, like Lip Service, has been purchased to become an ebook, is The Secrets of Our Success - How to Publish and Promote Online. (3/25 10:30 a.m. & 12 p.m.)

Marilyn and Tom Ross have helped thousands of authors and independent presses successfully produce and market millions of books for 23 years. Their best-selling Complete Guide to Self-Publishing was called "The bible of this self-publishing craze," by an NPR reporter. And their newest contribution, Jump Start Your Book Sales, is receiving rave reviews. They give publishing and marketing seminars nationwide and provide individualized client consulting through About Books, Inc. In 1996 they launched a nonprofit trade association, The Small Publishers Association of North America (SPAN). (3/25 8:30 a.m.)

Lucinda Roy is Alumni Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech. She is an award-winning novelist and poet who has taught in England, Africa, and the U.S. Her most recent novel, published by HarperCollins, is The Hotel Alleluia. (3/24 2 p.m. )

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Lucy Sankey Russell is an attorney whose essays about home life have appeared in the Washington Post, Stanford Magazine, Albemarle, and other publications. (3/26 1:30 p.m.)

Sonia Sanchez is a poet, activist and scholar. She was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts, and was nominated for the NAACP Image and National Book Critics Circle Awards in 1998. Her most recent book is a collection of poetry, Shake Loose My Skin. (3/24 8 p.m.)

Marjorie Sunflower Sargent is Executive Director of Horizon Institute for Policy Solutions, co-publisher of Sacred Bearings. She is a University of Virginia alumna, a champion of Native American rights, and Board Chair of South Afrikan social change organization Global Posse. (3/24 2 p.m.)

Donald Shaw is the Brown-Forman Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia and a noted scholar of Jorge Luis Borges. He has written numerous articles and books on modern Spanish literature, including Borges: Ficciones and Borges' Narrative Strategy. (3/23 2 p.m.)

Michael Shermer is the author of Why People Believe Weird Things and publisher of Skeptic magazine and the director of the Skeptics Society, has appeared on numerous nationally syndicated talk shows including Oprah, 20/20, Dateline, Good Morning America. One of the leading experts on weird and extraordinary claims, religion, spiritualism and religion, he is an adjunct professor at Occidental College. He hosts the Skeptics Lecture Series a the California Institute of Technology, Science Talk, a radio program on NPR affiliate KFC, and a weekly half-hour television show on Fox Family TV. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Evie Shockley is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Duke University. Her poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Black Arts Quarterly, Blue Mesa Review, Callaloo, and The North American Review. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Porter Shreve is the author of the novel The Obituary Writer (Houghton Mifflin, June 2000), and coeditor of three anthologies, most recently Tales Out of School (Beacon Press, August 2000). He teaches at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. (3/25 10 a.m.)

Susan Shreve is a professor of English in the graduate Master of Fine Arts program at George Mason University and the author of 12 novels including The Visting Physician, The Train Home, and Daughters of the New World, which was an NBC miniseries in 1999. She has written 25 books for children including Ghost Cats and has co-edited a series of anthologies with her son, writer Porter Shreve. She has a novel, Plum & Jaggers, and a children's book, The End of Amanda the Good, forthcoming in spring and summer 2000. (3/25 4 p.m.)

R.T. Smith's most recent collections of poems include Trespasser and Split the Lark: Selected Poems. He is the editor of Shenandoah and lives in Rockbridge County, Virginia. (3/25 12 p.m. & 2 p.m.)

Francine Smith has been involved in local theatre since 1976. She directed and performed with The Four County Players and helped to found Live Arts in 1989. She served as Artistic Director of Live Arts, and is currently a resident director for the LA Theatre Ensemble. She has been involved in theatre for over 30 years, mounting over 135 productions. (3/24 4 p.m.)

Rodney A. Smolla is the author of the recently published Deliberate Intent, a book that recounts his role as the attorney who sued the publishers of a book on how to be a contract killer. Smolla is a Professor of Law at the University of Richmond. (3/24 10 a.m.)

Lisa Russ Spaar teaches poetry writing at UVa, where she also administers the MFA Program in Creative Writing. She is the author of Acquainted With The Night: Insomnia Poems and Glass Town (a poetry collection). (3/22 7 p.m., 3/25 4 p.m.)

Ross Spears produced, directed, and wrote Let Freedom Ring, the third in a three-part series about Southern literature entitled Tell About the South. The first part of Tell About the South premiered at VABook! in 1997 and was aired by PBS in 1998. His other films include the Academy Award-nominated AGEE (1980), The Electric Valley, Long Shadows, and To Render A Life, which was nominated for Best Documentary of the Year by the International Documentary Association. (3/22 7 p.m.)

David St. John is the author of two limited edition books of poetry, a collection of prose and seven collections of poetry, including Study for the World's Body: New and Selected Poems, which was nominated for the National Book Award in Poetry. He has won numerous honors for his work and is the Editor-at-Large of The Antioch Review. His newest collections of poetry are In The Pines: Lost Poems, 1972-1997 and The Red Leaves of Night (1999). (3/24 4 p.m.)

Bella Stander is a writer and book reviewer whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Humanities magazine and C'VILLE Weekly. 3/23 6 p.m.

Lucia C. Stanton is the Shannon Senior Research Historian at Monticello and the author of Slavery at Monticello and co-editor of Jefferson's Memorandum Books, among other works. (3/23 4 p.m.)

Darcey Steinke's novels Up through the water and Jesus Saves, have been selected as Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times. Suicide Blond, her second Novel, has been translated into seven languages. Her journalism appears regularly in Spin. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Mariflo Stephens writes essays and fiction and has been published in Contemporary American Women Writers, The Washington Post, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Her other work includes Life After Oprah and The Barbie Chronicles. (3/23 6 p.m., 3/26 1:30 p.m.)

Rhonda Stewart, assistant editor at Emerge magazine, in Washington, D.C., edits the magazine's book section and writes news stories on a variety of subjects. Her work has also appeared in The Nation, Washington Post Book World, Vibe and Honey magazines. (3/25 10 p.m.)

Andy Straka is a full-time father and writer. His recent work has appeared in Albemarle and Blue Ridge Outdoors, and he has just completed a novel, Snare of the Fowlers, the first in a planned mystery series. He lives with his wife and their two children in Virginia. (3/26 1:30 p.m.)

Elizabeth Strout's fiction has appeared in many magazines, including the New Yorker. Her debut novel, Amy and Isabelle, published in 1999, received critical acclaim. (3/25 8 p.m.)

Joseph Strzepek is an Associate Professor of English Education at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education. He is director of the Central Virginia Writing Project, an affiliate of the National Writing Project, which sponsors summer institutes for teachers, K-12. He teaches Literature for Adolescents and Teaching Writing, and he is co-author of Teaching English in the Block Schedule, published by Eye on Education in March 2000. (3/23 7 p.m.)

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G. Thomas Tanselle is Vice-President of the Guggenheim Foundation and adjunct Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University since 1980. He is author of The Life and Work of Fredson Bowers, 1993 and Literature and Artifacts, 1998. 3/24 4 p.m.

Suzanne Tate is a children's author, best known for Suzanne Tate's Nature Series. Her books and accompanying teaching guides are used extensively by educators. (3/23 1 p.m.)

Deborah Taylor, Coodinator of School and Student Services at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, has conducted many workshops on youth services and literature. She has been President of ALA's Young Adult Library Services Association and is chair of the 2000 Coretta Scott King Award jury. (3/23 7 p.m.)

Henry Taylor is a teacher and poet whose third collection of poetry, The Flying Change, received the 1986 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He also wrote An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards and was recently featured in the literary journal Shenandoah. (3/23 4 p.m.)

John Martin Taylor, whose nickname is Hoppin' John, has written four cookbooks. He makes and sells his own South Carolina food products. (3/25 10 a.m.)

Phyllis Theroux is the author of The Book of Eulogies, Night Lights: Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark, California and Other States of Grace (a memoir) and a new book for children, Serefina Under the Circumstances. Her columns, editorials and essays have appeared in various national publications, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, Parents Magazine, and House Beautiful where she writes a monthly column, "Homing In." (3/25 10:45 p.m.)

Will Thomas teaches history at the University of Virginia and, as Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History, develops digital history projects, including the award-winning Valley of the Shadow Project on the American Civil War. He is the author of Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South (LSU Press, 1999) and the co-producer of a history of Virginia series for public television, called "The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Virginia's History Since the Civil War." (3/24 2 p.m.)

Virginia Thompson is an English teacher and artist. She writes short stories for adults, and is currently writing and illustrating a children's picture book about Japan. (3/26 1:30 p.m.)

Ginger Thornton is the advisory and production editor of Callaloo. A PhD candidate in English at the University of Virginia, she has an M.A. in English from Baylor University and an M.A. in History from Sul Ross State University. (3/26 1:30 p.m.)

Natasha Trethewey, whose poems have been widely published in literary journals, recently received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the 1999 Cave Canum Poetry Prize, judged by Rita Dove. She teaches at Auburn University. (3/25 8 a.m.)

Adriana Trigiani is a writer, filmmaker, producer, and director. She has written and producing television situation comedies, among them "The Cosby Show" and "A Different World." She was executive producer/head writer for the film show "CityKids" for Jim Henson/ABC, "Growing Up Funny" for Lifetime Television, and Queens of the Bigtime, an award-winning feature length documentary. At present, she is writing and directing the film based on her novel, Big Stone Gap, for The Shooting Gallery (Sling Blade). (3/24 4 p.m., 3/25 12 p.m.)

Valerie Tripp has written 25 books in The American Girls Collection: seven books each about Molly, Felicity, Josefina, and four about Samantha. She also wrote the plays in the American Girls theater kits. In addition, Ms. Tripp has written poems, songs, and nonfiction educational materials for children and is the author of six Just One More stories, published by Childrens Press. (3/22 7 p.m.)

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Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon taught English at Lycee Bilingue de Bertoua, Cameroon. She holds a B.A from Washington and Lee University and an M.F.A. from Penn State. She assisted Susan K. Harris in editing the New Riverside Editions Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (3/25 4 p.m.)

Abraham Verghese, M.D., is a professor of Medicine at Texas Tech University. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. His first book, My Own Country, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was made into a television movie for Showtime. His second book, The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss, was published in 1998 by HarperCollins. Dr. Verghese is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and other publications and recipient of many awards for both his medical work and his writing. (3/23 2 p.m.)

Daniel Wallace's acclaimed first novel, Big Fish, was published in 1988. It was translated into six languages, and film rights were optioned by Columbia Pictures. Raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Wallace now lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he is the illustrator and co-owner of the card company K. Floyd. His newest novel is Ray in Reverse (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill). (3/25 2 p.m.)

Val Ward is an activist, actor, producer, director and lecturer. She has made a major contribution to the cultural life of Chicago and America through her work as a founder and artistic director of the Kuumba Theatre. (3/25 10 a.m.)

Richard Warner is Associate Professor of Acting at UVa. He acted regionally in over 80 roles; performed in film, and has directed innumerable UVa productions, appeared in TV's "Homocide: Life on the Streets," and received several professional awards. Is a member Actors' Equity and Screen Actors Guild. (3/24 4 p.m.)

Donovan Webster, a former senior editor for Outside magazine, has written for The New Yorker, National Geographic, Audubon, Smithsonian, and The New York Times magazine. His book, Aftermath: The Remnants of War, was recently re-issued in paperback by Vintage. He lives with his wife and children at the foot of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. (3/26 3:30 p.m.)

Hop Wells is a 10th grader at St. Anne's Belfield School. He writes poetry and in 1999 co-founded Saints March for Books, a community service organization designed to share books and a love of reading with underprivileged children. (3/23 4 p.m.)

Townie Wells is an 8th grader at St. Anne's Belfield School. He enjoys drawing cartoons and playing soccer and squash. In 1999 he co-founded Saints March for Books, a community literacy program, with his brother. (3/23 4 p.m.)

Tim Wendel is the author of the critically acclaimed Castro's Curveball. His stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, as well as GQ and Esquire magazines. (3/24 4 p.m.)

Lawrence Weschler is a longtime staff writer at the New Yorker, where he shuttles between political tragedies and cultural comedies. His most recent books include Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders, A Wanderer in the Perfect City, Boggs: A Comedy of Values, and Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas. (3/24 4 p.m., 3/25 10 a.m.)

Colson Whitehead was born in NYC in 1969 and graduated from Harvard College in 1991. His journalism has appeared in numerous publications. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. (3/24 4 p.m.)

Charlottesville resident Henry Wiencek is author of The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White, the story of an African-American family and the white family who once owned them. The Hairstons was featured on "60 Minutes II," and a mini-series based on the book is being written for CBS. (3/23 6 p.m.)

Valerie Wilkinson and Russ Reed, authors of Whispers from Our Soul, are a CPA and insurance entrepreneur who stumbled unexpectedly upon their souls. Come hear their story and learn how to put your soul into action in your daily life. (3/26 1:00 p.m.)

Lisa Williams earned her M.F.A. from the University of Virginia where she studied with Charles Wright, Rita Dove and Greg Orr. Her previous work has appeared in Raritan, Virginia Quarterly Review, and has poems forthcoming in American Poetry: Next Generation. She has won an Academy of American Poets' Prize (1995) and the May Swenson Poetry Award (1998) for her first full-length book of poems, The Hammered Dulcimer. (3/24 10 a.m.)

Joan Williams is the author of five novels -including The Morning and the Evening, which won the John P. Marquand First Novel Award-and a collection of short stories. She is the recipient of a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship. (3/26 1:30 p.m.)

Douglas L. Wilson is Co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College, founding Saunders Director of the ICJS at Monticello, and a prize-winning author of books on Lincoln and Jefferson. (3/23 4 p.m.)

David Wisniewski is a self-taught author/artist who developed his signature cut-paper illustration style and writing skills from years of designing and constructing shadow puppet productions with his wife Donna. His sixth book, Golem, was awarded the 1997 Caldecott Medal. His recent comedies, Tough Cookie and The Secret Knowledge of Grown-ups, are currently being considered for film and television production.(3/22 7 p.m., 3/23 9 a.m.&10 a.m.&2:45 p.m.)

Martha Wolf is Executive Director of Historic Bartram's Garden in Philadelphia. Over twelve years, Mrs. Wolf has led a major transformation on the Garden based upon The Bartram's 1783, Catalog of North American Plants – the oldest catalog of its kind. (3/22 2 p.m.)

Charles Wright's collection of poems, Black Zodiac, received the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics' Circle Award, and his early selected poems, Country Music, received the National Book Award. His newest book is Appalachia: Negative Blue is forthcoming in 2000. 3/25 12 p.m.

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David Yalof is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. His recently published book, Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees, is based on his dissertation that won the Best Dissertation on the American Presidency Prize for 1998, as well as garnering an honorable mention for the APSA's 1998 Edwin Corwin Prize for Best Dissertation in Public law. (3/25 12 p.m.)

Nura Yingling is English Department Chair at Tandem Friends School; poetry editor of Iris, UVa's journal for women, and has served as a judge for The Writer's Eye a contest at the Bayly Art Museum for the past seven years. (3/20 2:30 p.m.)

David Yount, D.D., is the author of the syndicated newspaper column "Amazing Grace" and host of a television program on faith and spirituality. He has written four books, most recently Ten Thoughts to Take Into Eternity: Living Wisely in Light of the Afterlife. (3/22 4 p.m.)

Boyd Zenner is acquiring editor for regional and paperback books at the University Press of Virginia. Her essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications. (3/25 10 a.m.)

Author and actress Irene Ziegler received a fellowship in fiction from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Her stories and reviews have appeared in The New York Times and Publishers Weekly among others. Her first novel, Rules of the Lake, was published in 1999. (3/25 2 p.m.)

Diane Zoi is the Amazon.com Director of the Advantage Program, a program for independent publishers, authors, musicians, filmmakers and video producers who want to work directly with Amazon.com to sell their books, music and film on Amazon.com's Web site. Diane is responsible for all aspects of Amazon.com Advantage - from operations to marketing to business development. Prior to joining Amazon.com, Diane was in Retention Marketing at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. in San Francisco. 3/25 (10:30 a.m.&2 p.m.)

Olivier Zunz is Commonwealth Professor of History at the University of Virginia and the author of The Changing Face of Inequality, Making America Corporate, and Why the American Century? (3/22 7 p.m. )

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