2006 ALA Annual Conference

Southern Voices
Saturday, June 24
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Bridge Room

Join Friends of Libraries U.S.A. as we host southern writers talking about and reading from their work. Barbara Hoffert, Editor of the Book Review, Library Journal, will introduce the authors and moderate the panel discussion. A book signing will follow.

Mark Childress, author of One Mississippi
Mark Childress, born in Alabama and raised around the Midwest and the South, is known for novels like Tender and Crazy in Alabama. One Mississippi, his first novel in eight years, is the hilarious and deeply moving story of an out-of-place student trying to survive his high school years in a small town in Mississippi. (Photo Credit: Kelly Campbell)

Jed Horne, author of Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
Jed Horne is Metro Editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the author of Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans, nominated for the 2005 Edgar Award for Best True Crime Book. He lives in the French Quarter with his wife and sons. (Photo Credit: Eli Horne)

Tom Piazza, author of Why New Orleans Matters
Tom Piazza, a longtime resident of New Orleans, is the author of seven previous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the widely acclaimed novel My Cold War and the recent Understanding Jazz. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, he has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Oxford American, and many other publications. He is the recipient of a James Michener Fellowship in Fiction, and he won a Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey.