Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up on a farm in Ohio. As a kid, she knew two girls who had the exact same first, middle and last names, and shared the same birthday—only one year apart—and she always thought that was… Continue Reading
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Hoffmann, Jeff
Jeff Hoffmann’s second novel, “Like It Never Happened,” is being released March 5, 2024. His debut novel was “Other People’s Children,” and his writing has appeared in The Sun, Booth, Harpur Palate and Publishers Weekly. He was the winner of the… Continue Reading
Taylor, Barbara
Barbara J. Taylor was born and raised in Scranton, Pa. She sets her novels in the hometown she loves and fills them with miners, evangelists, vaudevillians, nuns, gangsters, prostitutes, widows, musicians, dreamers, and a seer or two. She is the… Continue Reading
Lofton, Jeffrey Dale
Jeffrey Dale Lofton is a senior advisor at the Library of Congress, surrounded by books and people who love them. “Red Clay Suzie” is a fictionalized memoir written through his lens as gay and living with a disability in a… Continue Reading
Phillips, Jayne Anne
Update: Jayne Anne Phillips is the winner of 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, “Night Watch,” which she will be presenting at GBF. Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of “Black Tickets,” “Machine Dreams,” “Fast Lanes,” “Shelter,” “MotherKind,”… Continue Reading
Rosen, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Rosen is President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts “We the People,” a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing… Continue Reading
Bordwich, Fergus
Fergus M. Bordewich is the author of nine non-fiction books: “Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction;” “Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America;” “The First… Continue Reading
Posnanski, Joe
Joe Posnanski is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of seven books, including “Why We Love Baseball,” “The Baseball 100,” “Paterno” and “The Secret of Golf.” He has been named National Sportswriter of the Year by five different organizations.… Continue Reading
Gonell, Aquilino
Aquilino Gonell is a Dominican immigrant, former U.S. Army soldier and Iraq War veteran. For 17 years, he was a United States Capitol Police officer and was one of four police officers who testified before the House Select Committee investigating… Continue Reading
Howe, Katherine
Katherine Howe is a New York Times best-selling and award-winning historian and novelist. She is the author of several novels for adults and young adults, has edited two volumes of primary sources for Penguin Classics, and is the co-author with… Continue Reading